Investigative Journalism
Washington, D.C. – Anyone visiting or living in the United States should now think twice before speaking out. A new memo from the U.S. Department of Justice under President Donald Trump is causing global outrage: ...
Washington, D.C. – In the history of American presidencies, there have been many unusual messages - on letterhead, in tweets, as margin notes on legislative drafts. But what Donald Trump just sent to the Chairman of the U.S. Federal ...
Nashville, Tennessee - A man remains in prison. Not because he is guilty. Not because he wants to flee. But because the justice system ...
There are news items that can only be processed with a glass of absinthe and a cold washcloth on your face. The AfD, self-proclaimed voice of the oppressed people, has quietly but generously rewarded itself - with a salary that seems as ...
Pride Month is coming to an end – and perhaps you barely noticed that it had begun. This year has been noticeably quiet: no rainbow-colored logos from major corporations, ...
Washington / Nashville - This is a case that long ago transcended legal questions - it has become a symbol for how a government deals with law, truth, and human life. Construction worker Kilmar Abrego Garcia ...
It was a hot summer day at Worthy Farm in Somerset when British rap-punk act Bob Vylan took to the West Holts Stage at the Glastonbury Festival ...
There is political communication. There is propaganda. And then there is what the White House is publishing these days – a mixture of fast-food aesthetics, authoritarian commands, and post-ironic absurdity
There are places where time seems to stand still. Not in a poetic way, like a sunset over the Eifel, but in an oppressive, shabby way – like a musty local museum where ...
It was a scene of biblical cruelty, but it did not take place two thousand years ago in Jerusalem – it happened in the spring of 2025 in the Arizona desert. An elderly pastor, William "Bill" Schonemann, 76 years old, ...
East Palo Alto, California – It was a promise born from the idea that wealth brings responsibility. When Priscilla Chan, pediatrician and wife of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, established a school for disadvantaged children in 2016 ...
It is the biographical details that can shake the political memory of a nation – especially when they stand in stark contradiction to one’s own demands. Republican Senator Marco Rubio, a vocal proponent of strict immigration laws ...
It was an interview straight out of a Machiavellian stage play: two people on the set - Maria Bartiromo, a Fox News veteran known for her sharp rhetoric, and Donald J. Trump, the president of rearview mirrors and distortions ...
Sometimes history is not written but barked into existence. Saturday was one of those days. JD Vance, Vice President of the United States and a passionate virtuoso of right-wing rhetoric, picked up his pen
It is a quiet retreat with enormous consequences: Starting June 30, the U.S. Department of Defense will cease sharing its satellite data with scientists and weather services ...
Washington, June 29, 2025 – It was a moment of rare clarity in an era of political fog. On the night from Saturday to Sunday, the U.S. Senate voted 51 to 49 to move forward on a piece of legislation that changes everything: ...
Kabul, June 2025 - By motorcycle, camper van, bicycle, or scheduled flights from Istanbul and Dubai, they are arriving: curious travelers from Europe, adventure-seekers from Asia, globetrotters with GoPros and visas in their passports ...
New Orleans, Portland, Basile - they are quiet places, far removed from the centers of power in Washington. And yet these days, they lie at the heart of a policy that strikes with full force.
Just a few hours ago, an image appeared on the official X account of the US Department of Homeland Security (@DHSgov): Four alligators lined up in formation, each wearing a cap with the white letters "ICE
It is Saturday evening in Washington, and the Senate is still lit. No ceremonial act, no state visit - but a political ballet of nerves where every vote counts. While President Donald Trump ...
Ochopee, Florida – It was a hot, oppressive day in the Everglades as hundreds of people gathered along the Tamiami Trail ...
Los Angeles, May 2025 – It was a day like so many in the labyrinth of American immigration bureaucracy – functional, overcrowded, emotionless ...
He sits there, pale, self-righteous, claiming to be misunderstood by the world. Martin Sellner, the tragicomic mascot of the Identitarian movement, once again finds life difficult.
Washington, June 28, 2025 – The highest judges in the United States, whose rulings can bend entire societies, are suddenly showing thin skin. Chief Justice John Roberts took the microphone in Charlotte on Saturday ...
"You’re done for – the judge doesn’t like Russia." The sentence hit like a stone. No legal argument, no doubt, no room for interpretation. Just a verdict that had already been made long before any hearing began ...
It was a performance meant as cultural emancipation - and ended as a historical misstep. When Beyoncé wore a T-shirt at a Juneteenth concert in Paris that portrayed the Buffalo Soldiers as heroes against "the enemies of peace," ...
It is a spectacle of political decay that plays out daily on Alice Weidel’s account – the co-chair of a party that no longer presents itself with democratic decency ...
In hardly any other institution is Donald Trump’s will to power more visible than in the Supreme Court of the United States. With an ultra-conservative six-to-three majority, ...
Washington, June 28, 2025 – In a drastic move that shakes confidence in the independence of the American justice system, the US Department of Justice on Friday dismissed at least three prosecutors who played a key role ...
At the Minnesota Capitol on Friday, a quiet, solemn atmosphere prevailed as President Joe Biden arrived in person to pay his final respects to the late Speaker of the House Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark ...
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