Bread, Circuses and Best Friends: How the 2026 FIFA World Cup Becomes a Stage for the Powerful clarus.news | Commentary | May 31, 2026 with support from Claude Opus Ten years ago, Gianni Infantino stepped forward to pul...
Federal Office of Public Health bans, Bern procures: How federalism devalues Switzerland's sovereignty claims clarus.news | Analysis | May 12, 2026 Andreas Binggeli and Ernst Anker The Federal Office of Public Health (F...
The Great Protein Bluff: Why Switzerland Already Eats Too Much – and Still Buys More clarus.news | Analysis | May 8, 2026 | Thierry Leserf "High Protein" has become the dominant sales argument on the shelves of Migros, ...
Update 2026: The Flash in the Pan Gets a Population Counter (Initiative "No 10-Million Switzerland!") The NZZ warned in 2016 against the fallacy of thinking that a single vote already constitutes a new era: Perhaps it wa...
Flash in the Pan with Side Dishes: How Switzerland 'Awakened' in 2016 – and Then Just Voted Again On February 28, 2016, something happened that is about as rare in Swiss politics as an unauthorized garden shed: The SVP l...
Ten Years After the SZ Article: Has Yverdon-les-Bains Delivered on Its Smart Lighting Promises? Exactly ten years ago, the Süddeutsche Zeitung described Yverdon-les-Bains as a small city with big ambitions: intelligent s...
Constitution for a Super-AI: Responsibility or Marketing? Teaser: Anthropic has presented a "constitution" for its AI system Claude. The idea: values should not just be layered on top as rules, but embedded in the train...
Storage Crisis, Hyperscalers, Switzerland: What's True – and What's (Still) Storytelling? The starting point is the Clarus News post "Storage Crisis in Europe: Hyperscalers Profit, European Data Centers Fight for Surviva...
Intro The following article is intentionally sensationalist and polemical. The starting point was a short, biting comment from an anonymous user who took aim at the political "wet dreams" surrounding state AI euphoria. B...
Federal Government Pays Again: Departure with Golden Parachute – Civil Protection Seeks New Leader A commentary with a sharp pen Switzerland is known for punctuality, precision – and of course for golden severance packa...