Investigative Journalism
Wer wissen will, wie weit eine Regierung zu gehen bereit ist, muss beobachten, was sie an einem einzigen Tag tut, wenn niemand sie zwingt. Der 11. August liefert das Anschauungsmaterial gleich mehrfach, an einem Spiegelteich und auf offener See, dazu in einem Gerichtssaal für Handelsrecht. Für sich genommen wirkt jeder Vorgang wie eine Kuriosität. Zusammen, […]
Fox News has bad news for Fox News. Day after day, the network paints a picture of a Democratic Party that is supposed to look completely detached from reality and hopelessly confused, and now its own polling operation is burying that picture. A network that paints reality for its viewers keeps a measuring device around that measures reality anyway ...
“Has your country publicly supported American foreign policy?” That is how the questionnaire Washington has been sending around to its allies these days begins, and the very first line makes clear that this is not about asking ...
On the morning of August 8, something fell into a sunflower field in northeastern Bulgaria and shattered the silence with an explosion. A drone, coming across the border from Romania, crashed and detonated about 100 meters ...
At Camp David, the presidential retreat in the mountains of Maryland, the president sat before his Cabinet on Friday and told the country who had really attacked its water systems ...
What we had to witness today beneath our report is almost beyond words. It deserves contempt, but that would be too easy. These have become, in many ways, deeply empathy-starved times. Open hatred is no longer hidden. Behind it often stand loneliness and fear of the unknown, along with a racism that no longer bothers to disguise itself ...
A conviction is usually where a story ends. For Jeffrey Epstein, it was where the real story began. In 2008, he pleaded guilty in a Florida court to procuring a minor for prostitution. He was required to register as a sex offender and was officially a man under court supervision. Yet according to an investigation that examined thousands of Justice Department records, ...
As a Marine in Iraq in 2005, Joe Shearer was knocked to the ground by the blast of an enemy mortar round. He became nauseous and vomited. Even so, he got back up ...
At the annual Alliance Defending Freedom summit in San Diego, the speaker was introduced with a single sentence that made everything else almost unnecessary. Before he ever ran for Congress, Speaker Johnson ...
Before the AfD event in Grimmen on August 28, there is a form standing between the citizen and the hall, and on that form is a required field: the national ID card number. No number, no registration, no registration, no entry. To justify it, the party offers one sentence, saying that registration is "mandatory due to security requirements imposed by the authorities." Which authority, which requirement ...
I hereby submit my application for the next cabinet position that becomes available. I know it's a little unconventional, but after watching this week's developments, I'm confident I exceed the qualifications. I'm available Tuesdays and Thursdays, I don't care which ministry it is, and if I'm ever feeling under the weather, ...