Investigative Journalism
A single judge in Washington on Thursday made a decision that can determine the lives and deaths of children - and at the same time cast a glaring light on the methods of the Trump administration. Timothy J. Kelly, federal judge at the U.S. District Court, abruptly blocked the government’s attempt to put hundreds of Guatemalan children on planes overnight and send ...
A look at the latest numbers is enough to understand why the political atmosphere in the United States is so heated: According to the RealClearPolitics average, Democrats are currently clearly ahead with 45.0 percent, while Republicans stagnate at 41.4 percent. That corresponds to a lead of 3.6 points – a gap that may not seem insurmountable, but ...
Donald Trump wanted to make a statement: offshore wind power should die long before it had the chance to change America. But it was precisely the judiciary, which he so often believed to have under control, that has now dealt him a painful setback. Case number 25-CV-2197-Lamberth, U.S. District Court Washington, D.C.: Judge Royce Lamberth ...
It is a sentence that will likely go down in the chronicle of political distortions: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Health Secretary of the United States, declared before the UN that an international declaration on combating chronic disease was tainted with abortion propaganda and “radical gender ideology.” A document that in truth formulates sober goals such as curbing cancer, heart attacks and diabetes was ...
It was not simply a speech - it was an alliance of propaganda. On the stage of the United Nations, Sergei Lavrov declared in a cool voice: NATO had in fact declared war on Russia. In the background one could hear the whisper of a man with ambitions for power, whose name need not be mentioned. The accusation was not a loudly spoken act but a declaration of war ...
There are affairs that disappear after a few days, and there are events that shift the foundation of a democracy. 250,000 euros of taxpayer money for a think tank whose leaders have been advocating cooperation with the AfD for years clearly belong to the second category. The fact that the CDU pushed this funding through in the Bundestag is not an accident, but an expression of a strategic development ...
The September sun had barely begun to rise over the Dallas skyline when, at 6 a.m. on Wednesday, the first shots rang out, shattering the morning calm with a staccato rhythm of violence that would echo through a nation already torn apart by immigration debates. From a rooftop perch overlooking the U.S. Immigration and ...
Pete Hegseth, Trumps Verteidigungsminister, hat die amerikanischen Streitkräfte in einen Schockzustand versetzt. Auf Befehl des Ministers sollen kommende Woche Dutzende Generäle und Admiräle aus aller Welt auf einem Stützpunkt in Virginia zusammenkommen – kurzfristig, ohne erkennbare Begründung. Was sich anhört wie eine Routinebesprechung, trägt in Wahrheit den Charakter einer Machtdemonstration. Vier hochrangige Regierungsbeamte bestätigten das […]
It was a day of contradictions such as only Donald Trump can stage. At noon he berated heads of state and institutions alike in a 56-minute speech before the United Nations General Assembly. He called climate change “the greatest con job ever,” mocked environmentalists who supposedly wanted to “kill all the cows,” insulted the Muslim mayor of London and provocatively asked: ...
It began with morality, and now it ends with leaks and deletion commands. Two phenomena are currently showing how conservative digital culture is shifting toward control and denunciation: moral self-surveillance in the form of apps like Covenant Eyes and instrumentalized civic technology in the form of “Cancel the Hate.” On paper, both promise purity — one private chastity, ...
A quarter point is small on paper and large in politics. The Federal Reserve has cut the key interest rate by 25 basis points - new range 4.00 to 4.25%, the first cut since December. At the same time it signaled two further steps later this year. Not as a promise, but as a path: By December ...
The deadly sniper attack on an ICE building in Dallas at first glance seemed to carry a clear message. On unfired shell casings recovered by the FBI at the scene, “ANTI-ICE” had been engraved. FBI director Kash Patel posted a photo of the evidence on X just minutes after the shots and spoke of an ideological motive. President Trump in turn used the incident ...
Ken Paxton calls it a victory. In truth it is an assault on the minds of the youngest. The Attorney General of Texas forces the schools of Austin to erase every word about Critical Race Theory. A scholarly approach that has examined for decades how racism is embedded in laws and institutions is summarily declared “anti-American propaganda.”
There are politicians who stumble over their own words. Alice Weidel, on the other hand, builds entire speeches out of stumbles and sells them as reality. Her latest fairy tale: In the US and the Netherlands Antifa is banned, Viktor Orbán has already raised the iron fist anyway - and only in Germany, oh, only here, the CDU brazenly ...
It is a document that was never meant to reach the public. Classified as “For Official Use Only” and “Law Enforcement Use Only,” it carries the sober title “Terrorism – Potential for Violence Targeting Pride Month 2025 Events.” Drafted by the Office of Intelligence and Analysis of the Department of Homeland Security, dated May 16, 2025 ...
There are historic moments that shake humanity: the moon landing, the fall of the Berlin Wall - and now the escalator apocalypse of New York. Donald J. Trump, president, martyr, allegedly the most stable genius of all time, entered the United Nations not with diplomacy but with a “Triple Sabotage” thriller. The stage: the glass palace on the East River. The weapons: ...