by Johann Aeschlimann | Dec 12, 2025 | America, Swiss
Marc Jorns has a small manufacturing business in the Swiss town of Lotzwil (pop. 2800). Employing 75 co-workers, Jorns AG makes sheet-metal bending machines used in construction. 85 percent of the product is exported world-wide, almost a third to the United States....
by Johann Aeschlimann | Jul 20, 2025 | America
Donald Trump is winning, and his opponents are adrift. I had the chance to interview Joan Williams, expert on gender and class issues, about similarities between the far right in Europe and the US and priority-setting. Williams recommends that the opponents of the far...
by Johann Aeschlimann | Jun 15, 2025 | America
On the day the American Presdient had himself a military parade for his 79th birthday, large protest rallies took place in most American cities, two politicians were shot in Minnesota and Israel waged the second day of its second Middle East war, I was witnessing the...
by Johann Aeschlimann | Nov 5, 2024 | America
Following the elections in Wisconsin is like being in a pub crawl. One after the other, the candidates hit the place for the not-yet-sated to lap up more of the same. Last weekend, Milwaukee was the epicenter. Trump and Harris rallied seven miles apart the same Friday...
by Johann Aeschlimann | Nov 1, 2024 | America
There is no question about the American masses’ fascination with Donald Trump. No matter how much he shocks, disgusts and grosses out the more refined segments of the population, the spell he wields on his MAGA believers remains intact. Donald Trump is to American...
by Johann Aeschlimann | Sep 14, 2024 | America
Let’s just surf the surface in assessing that mother of all TV debates and quickly address the topic du jour which is eating cats and dogs. First, the assessment. Yes, the debate made for good entertainment but the partisans of rational political discourse might be...
