Tears, Applause, Homecoming – Ukrainian POWs Return
First moments of freedom – Ukrainian prisoners of war cheer on their way home after a swap with Russia. The bus has just crossed the Ukrainian border. Welcome home.
At the Edge of Absurdity – Trump’s West Point Speech and the Intellectual Decay of a President
It was a sunny Saturday morning in West Point, that venerable military academy on the Hudson River, when the President of the United States stepped onto the stage – wearing a red “Make America Great Again” cap, walking heavily, ...
When Science Flees – How the World Is Welcoming America's Brightest Minds
It begins quietly. With a canceled email address. With a lab that suddenly falls silent. With a grant application that goes unanswered. And yet, it is a tectonic shift: America’s scientific soul – thinned out, dismantled, driven away
Heroes Without Weapons - How a Syrian and a Chechen Stopped Terror on the Platform
It was a Friday evening like so many others - people rushing through the halls of Hamburg Central Station, trains arriving, life running its usual course. Until suddenly everything changed ...
"They Come in Trucks, Masked and Ready" – Patriot Front Marches Unchallenged Through Kansas City
On Saturday, May 24, 2025, the far-right group Patriot Front marched through downtown Kansas City, Missouri. Members – identifiable by their white face coverings, khaki pants, and navy-blue shirts ...
The Judge Spoke – But ICE Arrested Him Anyway
Madness has found structure. And it wears a uniform. In San Diego, a man was arrested in the hallway of a courthouse – directly in front of the office of a judge who had explicitly ...
He Was Simply Put on the Bus
The Silent Nightmare of One Man and the New Face of Trump’s Deportation Policy. It happened again. Without warning. Without protocol. And, as a judge noted, without even the semblance of law. Late Friday night, Federal Judge ...
It leaves you speechless
ICE agents tackled a worker in Alabama and detained him for hours - despite the fact that he is a U.S. citizen. He begged and shouted, “I am a U.S. citizen,”...
The Dignity of Mothers - and the Contempt of Power
It is a silent uprising currently unfolding in the cathedrals of America - and yet it could be louder than any street protest. Because when even the American bishops publicly oppose the president’s policies, something has gone out of balance ...
How George Floyd’s Death Changed America and Then Things Got Worse
It was the summer when the world stood still - because of a virus that crossed borders, and because of a video that no one could ever forget. On May 25, 2020, a white police ...
Bruce Springsteen vs. Donald Trump – a Musical Showdown
Bruce Springsteen isn't backing down. The rock musician, one of the loudest critics of former and current U.S. President Donald Trump for years, has once again made his political stance unmistakably clear. On Wednesday, he released a ...
The Hunt for the Voice of Hope
Jeanette Vizguerra’s Arrest and the Quiet Coup Against Human Rights. It began with a sentence, spoken by an ICE agent outside a Target store near Denver: “We finally got you.” ...
A Child Cries – and the State Cracks Down
The Naumburg Case and the Failed Deportation of a Syrian Family. On the morning of May 12, 2025, a group of officers entered an elementary school in Naumburg, Saxony-Anhalt. In the classroom, a physical education lesson ...
8647 – A Bridge, a Sign, and the Courage of Two People
Our Encounter with the Protesters of Fargo. It was a clear, windy afternoon over the I-94, where the bridge stretches like a silent ribbon connecting two sides of a fractured city...
Court as a Trap – How ICE Is Ambushing Migrants Outside Phoenix Immigration Hearings
This is the kind of scenario one might expect in an authoritarian regime – not in a country that calls itself the cradle of democracy: Migrants show up voluntarily for their court hearings, and outside the courthouse, ....
Judge Halts Trump’s Attack on Harvard
Boston, May 23, 2025 – With a single stroke of the pen, U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs has stopped the latest attempt by the Trump administration to undermine academic freedom. In an emergency hearing ...
How a Court Halted Trump’s Act of Retaliation Against Harvard
On the evening of May 23, 2025, just days before Harvard’s commencement ceremony, history was made in a modest courtroom in Boston. Federal Judge Allison D. Burroughs of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts ...
How Trump's Education Decree Threatens the Future of Harvard and Europe's Elite
t was a decision rendered in the tone of an autocracy, not in a democracy built on law and education. On May 22, 2025, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ...
Trump Threatens Apple and the EU with Tariffs
The Return of Economic Nationalism. In a time when markets are reeling and the global order is wavering, Donald Trump once again resorts to his proven tool of provocation: ...
The Crow That Flew Out of the Telegram Wall
It happened again: Maximilian Krah, the ornithologist of his own grandiosity, has taken to X (formerly Twitter, now Forest of Honks) – armed with the intellectual equivalent of a leaf blower on speed. His diagnosis? ...
Trump’s Theatrical Humiliation in the Oval Office – and the Bitter Truth Behind It
What unfolded on May 22, 2025, in the Oval Office was not a diplomatic encounter. It was a performance. A power play, orchestrated by the President of the United States, who does not debate but dominates. Who does not listen ...
Trump’s Crypto Gala as a Mirror of an Unbounded Presidency
Sterling, Virginia – It was an evening that defied comprehension. A political ritual that did not present itself as such – and yet contained all the symptoms of power obsession and economic self-empowerment. At Trump National ...
How the Trump Administration Criminalizes Helpers and Abandons Migrants to Uncertainty
It sounds like something out of a Kafkaesque play – and yet it's the reality along the southern border of the United States: The same Trump administration that publicly shames humanitarian helpers and accuses them of aiding smuggling ...
“Suck it” – Kristi Noem, Guantánamo, and the Cynicism of a Government That Treats Humanity With Contempt
It’s just two words. Two words, typed on a social platform once known as Twitter, which now resembles more a marketplace of contempt than a forum for political debate...
The Staging of a Cure
How Donald Trump Redefines Autism and Ignores Real Health Threats. It was a scene that has become increasingly common in the new America: Donald Trump sits beside his controversial Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on a stage, ...
Lying Press / Fake News – A German Term Between Propaganda and Truth
From Goebbels to the AfD – The Rebirth of a Term. It is a word that casts a dark shadow over German history – "Lying Press / Fake News." A term etched with sharp contours into ...
A Judicial Stop Sign – Hope for America’s International Students
It was a single ruling, issued in a courtroom in Oakland – and yet it echoed across the nation. Federal Judge Jeffrey S. White of the U.S. District Court in California drew a clear line on Thursday against the Trump administration...
Trump vs. Harvard – Administration Bans Enrollment of International Students
It is an unprecedented move in an escalating power struggle. The administration of President Donald Trump has stripped Harvard University of its ability to enroll international students by revoking its SEVP certification ...
How a Federal Judge Stopped Trump’s Plan to Shut Down the Department of Education
It was May 22, 2025, when a single court ruling shook the political architecture of the nation. In Boston, far from the glaring spotlight of Washington, federal judge Myong ...
Bloody Message – The Attack at the Jewish Museum in Washington
It was a mild May evening in Washington. An evening that was supposed to end with wine, conversation, and hope. Instead, it ended with two fatal gunshots. Two young people, Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky, were shot in front of ...
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