Investigative Journalism
It begins with a question that few used to ask: "What did you post on your Instagram feed – and who might hold it against you?" In the United States of 2025, it has become ...
A new Republican budget proposal in the U.S. House of Representatives is drawing sharp criticism: Every employee of the immigration agency ICE is to receive a $42,000 bonus – in addition to their regular salary. ...
It is a sentence that cuts deep: “Tranquila, ma. Aquí estoy yo” - “Calm down, Mom. I’m here.” Spoken by a small boy who has to watch as his mother is arrested by ICE agents in San ...
One has to imagine it: The central health report of the US government - the very document that is supposed to provide millions of people with guidance on health issues - is crammed full of fabricated sources, dead links, and digital watermarks ...
It’s only four words, but they reveal everything - “I love Viktor Orbán.” With this sentence, Alice Weidel, chairwoman of the AfD parliamentary group, finally dropped the last remnants of her democratic mask at this year’s CPAC 2025 in Budapest. The stage - a right-wing carnival of authoritarian self-adoration...
It is just a word. And yet it acts like an explosive device in political language: remigration. Donald Trump uses it as if it were bureaucratic jargon. As if it referred to return assistance, applications, orderly procedures...
An article about fear as a weapon, a fabricated letter, and the propaganda of power It begins with a letter. Light blue ink, an angry message threatening to shoot Donald Trump ...
Greifswald, the historic university town on the Baltic Sea, is politically upside down. Since the municipal elections of 2024, the city council has been in a state that resembles a political experiment –albeit one without a plan ...
By a man who set out to make America great again – and burned billions along the way. It was one of those scenes that have become routine in Trump’s second term: a warehouse ...
It does not begin with tanks. Not with uniforms or marching music. It begins with a smile - and a nomination. Paul Ingrassia is the man Donald Trump wants to appoint as head ...
It begins with a court ruling, soberly worded, directed at a public long accustomed to the unimaginable. And yet, May 30, 2025, will go down in history – as the day the Supreme Court ...
Sometimes, one wonders if the White House kitchen has replaced its spices with political fumes. The recent maneuvers labeled as "China strategy" by Donald Trump's team seem less like calculated geopolitics ...
It begins with a letter. Printed on heavy letterhead, bearing the seal of the Department of Justice, signed by Pamela Bondi, Trump’s Attorney General. What is written there sounds harmless – almost bureaucratically dry...
He came to Washington wielding a chainsaw – both metaphorically and politically. Elon Musk, multi-entrepreneur, billionaire, and self-declared government reformer, entered the political stage with the swagger of a man who believes everything can be solved ...
An article about the four-year-old girl Trump wants to throw out of the United States. There are stories that make even seasoned observers stop in their tracks. Cases so cruel in their banality that you feel like you're watching the wrong movie...
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It was a statement with political explosiveness – and it was made not in Beijing, but in Washington: On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the United States would begin revoking the visas of Chinese ...
Donald Trump has done it again. In a furious Truth Social post on May 29, 2025, the U.S. President declared a "total victory" in his lawsuit against the Pulitzer Prize Board. His claim? That a Florida appellate court had ruled the Pulitzer Prize ...
Despite public announcements and media staging of “deals” under President Trump, as of May 28, 2025, no new, fully negotiated, and legally binding trade agreements have entered into force.
Boston, May 2025 – It was an image that lingered: Above a busy bridge in Boston, a banner fluttered in the wind. The words: “TINY HANDS – GIANT BRIBES”, flanked ...
The Supreme Court of the United States ruled on Thursday that a multibillion-dollar oil railroad project in the state of Utah may proceed - despite massive environmental concerns, despite open climate consequences, despite everything ...
It was a ruling spoken softly – yet its impact echoes loudly: On May 29, 2025, U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting the Trump administration from banning Harvard University from ...
Am 29. Mai 2025, um 4:32 Uhr morgens, postete der Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten ein Bild, das in seiner Symbolkraft kaum überboten werden kann – und in seiner ideologischen Tiefe erschüttert. Donald J. Trump, in schwarzem ...
– Trump reacts angrily to his new Wall Street nickname: “Don’t ever say that again.” - It began with a sentence, spoken calmly, analytically, yet politically explosive. A reporter asked the President of the United States what he thought about Wall
It begins with a personnel decision, but it stands for far more than mere administrative reshuffling. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), the core of Donald Trump’s massive deportation policy, is undergoing a profound restructuring – and ...
Washington, May 29, 2025 – A federal court in New York delivered a serious legal setback to President Donald Trump on Wednesday: His attempt to impose sweeping tariffs on global imports by invoking the 1977 emergency powers law ...
Hamburg, May 2025 – It begins with an attack in broad daylight. A woman is assaulted with a knife. People scream. People film. Only one man acts. Courageous, determined, protective. He intervenes, stops the attacker, ...
It was a moment of rare clarity in an increasingly multipolar world. On May 27, just a few hours after his throne speech, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke in an exclusive interview with CBC’s Power & Politics ...
Donald Trump loves to talk about “deals” – as if wars were merely tedious negotiations over square footage, suffering a collateral side effect of diplomacy. Now it’s Russia. And again: no word about the dead, no rebuke for the aggressor...
It begins, like so much with Donald Trump, with an image: a little boy, blond, well cared for, in the large house in Queens. A son from a good home – and yet, according to his niece ...
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