Investigative Journalism
It starts with a crash. Not a loud, not a spectacular one – but a quiet, almost imperceptible glitch in a system that is no longer a technical toy, but a geopolitical echo chamber. When cybersecurity analysts at the firm iVerify began ...
It was one of those days when you wish politics would at least occasionally recognize the difference between a scandal and a slogan. On June 7, 2025, Alice Weidel took to X ...
These are the moments when not only the veil of political ignorance is lifted, but the very foundation of Republican identity begins to shake. On June 6, 2025, such a moment occurred – and it was so unmistakable, so revealing, ...
It was a day that will likely be etched deep into California’s collective memory – tear gas, burning cars, arrested union leaders – and now, soldiers. On Saturday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced he would deploy 2,000 ...
Tear gas and smoke hung over the southern outskirts of Los Angeles on Saturday. The streets of the small city of Paramount became the scene of an escalating confrontation between federal authorities and a civil society that refuses ...
It is an escalation whose sharpness seems unusual even for Donald Trump – and at the same time a glimpse into the power dynamics of a president who tolerates no loyalty short of total devotion. In an interview with ...
It doesn't begin with Skripal. It doesn't end with Navalny. Anyone who believes the Kremlin’s political bloodlust is a whim of the present, a mere pathology of Vladimir Putin, ...
It looked like a scene from a dark thriller: three fine but distinct fractures in the neck of a man who became the face of a global abuse scandal – and whose death raised more questions than it answered. Jeffrey Epstein, ...
It begins with an irony that only flourishes in the depths of political power: A president who claims America has recovered from chaos under his leadership governs as if the country were in a state of permanent emergency...
"Due to current events, we have updated the publication date of our May 5 article to today's date. The content remains unchanged." It didn’t begin with a gunshot. It began with a link. A channel. A message in a dark corner of the web. And like a plunge out of civilization into a world of shadow and filth, thousands found themselves drawn in -...
American politics increasingly resembles a theater in which not only the roles but also the rules are being rewritten. What once lurked in the dark corners of ideological discourse is now ...
It begins with a sentence meant to sound like triumph, but it rings like retreat: "Mission accomplished. Private Military Company Wagner returns home." So read the announcement Friday evening on a Telegram channel run by the ...
It was a Friday in June, but the heat of that day came not only from the California sun. On June 6, 2025, in the urban heart of Los Angeles, something was brewing that could no longer be described merely as a political dispute ...
The Shadow of Retreat – How the US Tries to Save Face in the Case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. It begins with a return flight. Not voluntary, not hopeful – but as the result of an institutional breakdown that reaches far beyond the borders of ...
It begins with a promise. "Energy dominance," the government calls it. Another word for the subjugation of entire landscapes – and the people who live there. In southern Louisiana, where the air smells of salt and houses cast barely any shadow ...
They say everything is under control. The state television channels flicker with confidence: inflation is down, the economy is recovering, foreign companies are returning. All that’s left is to determine who is worthy of returning ...
"Prices are down, income is up, our Border is closed, gasoline is CHEAP, inflation is DEAD — Our Country is BOOMING!" – When words become weapons, this sentence is a glancing blow against reality. ...
It begins with a legal text, dry, bureaucratic, without poetry – and ends in a nightmare of discrimination, mistrust, and missed encounters. Donald Trump, President of the United States, currently presents himself as the host of the world. The 2026 FIFA World Cup and the 2028 Summer Olympics ...
It was a sentence so charged it sparked like a fuse into a political powder keg: "They should launch a formal investigation into his immigration status because I firmly believe he is an illegal alien and should be deported...
It begins with a sentence as simple as it is cutting: "The circumstances surrounding the entry of the 3 Somalis and the role of left-wing NGOs like Pro Asyl must be clarified." Spoken by Alice Weidel, parliamentary group leader of the AfD, ...
There are many ways to go down in history. Some earn their place through courage, others through the power of words. Donald Trump, however, has chosen the most difficult path - through his hair. It is an architectural ...
A political chamber play in five acts - written not in ink, but in steel. There are days when you no longer wonder who is actually governing - but rather who is playing with whom. Not with power, but with vanity...
It started with a sentence. One of those sentences that are more than just an opinion - a harbinger. "I was always surprised that Biden didn’t do it." What was meant was the termination of multi-billion-dollar government contracts ...
It was a sentence spoken with the nonchalance of a man who never had to wait in a basement for the end of a bombing raid. "That wasn't a great day for you." ...
It was a sentence so cold and cynical that it seemed to drop the temperature in the Oval Office: “That was not a great day for you.” Spoken by a President of the United States – directed at German Chancellor Friedrich Merz ...
It wasn't the first time Elon Musk wielded his verbal wrecking ball. But what he posted on his platform X on June 5, 2025, was more than a provocation. It was a frontal assault...
It was a Saturday that could hardly have started more uneventfully. Marcelo Gomes da Silva, 18 years old, a student at Milford High School in Massachusetts, got into his father’s car to head to volleyball practice, just like so many times ...
It was a sentence spoken with the carelessness of a man who has never been forced to wait out the end of a bombing raid in a basement. “Maybe it's better to let them fight for a while.” ...
Sometimes, numbers tell more than any political statement ever could. One of them: 32 out of 100 points – that was the score awarded to the “Trump National Golf Club Bedminster” in May 2025 by the Somerset County Department of Health...
It begins with a photo. A young man, his eyebrow raised with slight irony, stands in front of the seal of the Department of Homeland Security. The pose: confident, almost coy. The context: shocking. Because this 22-year-old man, Thomas Fugate, is not an intern, not an observer, not a visitor ...
It was just one word: “Correct!” But it was enough to express a political commitment with a clarity rarely seen. Alice Weidel, chair of the AfD parliamentary group in the Bundestag, ...
There are stories that make even seasoned observers pause. Cases so cruel in their banality that you feel as if you’ve stepped into the wrong movie. This is one of those cases. And that says a lot ...
The view of the United States in June 2025 is not a view of a lost nation - it is a view of a deliberate decision. A decision for a politics that no longer negotiates difference but governs through exclusion. Donald Trump, who began his second ...
It was an evening full of symbolism. Blue balloons, glowing candles, the murmur of a crowd celebrating not just a politician, but a vision: Lee Jae-myung, candidate of the Democratic Party, stands for more than just a change in government. He represents the promise of a policy of détente in a region that has stood in the shadow of an unfinished war for decades...
It begins with a number - and could end in a political turning point. 3,000 arrests per day. That was the order Stephen Miller, Donald Trump's powerful deputy chief of staff and mastermind of immigration policy, gave to senior ICE officials ...
“Tough guys. The Courts must let me do the job.” With these words, posted Wednesday evening on Truth Social, President Donald Trump cemented a policy that not only challenges the rule of law but also shakes the very foundation of academic freedom...
It was a day that will go down in history – not for an upheaval, not for a sudden turn of events, but for two judgments that positioned the promise of the Constitution against the cynicism of power. On June 4, 2025, the U.S. judiciary ...
Washington, early summer 2025. The sun had just risen over the Capitol when a moment of collective relief unfolded in the House chamber. After a night of intense debate, whispered strategy, tactical maneuvering, and a final showdown, ...
Washington, summer 2025. While rainbow flags wave through the streets of the capital and hundreds of thousands of people from around the world gather for World Pride, she stands on a small stage with the calm of someone who has seen ...
It was a sentence that almost got lost in the noise of the news - and yet it heralds a geopolitical earthquake. “Putin told me very strongly that Russia will respond to Ukraine’s attack ...
It is a meeting that might seem like a footnote in American daily politics - and yet it symbolizes much more: Laura Loomer, far-right activist, conspiracy theorist, and declared ...
It begins with an image straight out of the textbook of fossil power politics: a government plane lands on the Arctic airstrip of Prudhoe Bay. Next to it, the trans-Alaska oil pipeline rises from the ground - a rusting steel artery, a symbol of an ...
It was a Tuesday morning in Minneapolis, gray with rain and heavy with history - and yet a day that stands like a harbinger over a fractured nation. An armored vehicle bearing the ...
It does not begin with a scandal, but with a system. Not with an outrage, but with a decision: Research – yes, but only if it fits the worldview. Migration – ...
It sounds like the next big showdown in Washington - but this time, the loudest opposition comes from within. While Donald Trump celebrates his “Big, Beautiful Bill” full of tax breaks, spending cuts, and a debt ceiling increase as a triumph, ...
Some laws sound dry and technical, almost like trivial bureaucracy. Yet hidden between sober paragraphs lies, at times, an explosive force capable of shaking the foundations of a democracy. One such law is Trump’s latest project,..
West Virginia prosecutors are now charging women for miscarriages - a dystopian reality - It sounds like a scene from a dystopian novel, yet it has become reality: In West Virginia, women now face criminal prosecution for miscarriages, starting as early as the ninth week of pregnancy...
It was a morning of open reckoning when President Donald Trump sharply attacked Republican Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky on his Truth Social platform. The reason was Paul's criticism of Trump's key domestic initiative, the so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (BBB), ...
It is a ruling that could easily be overlooked amid the flood of political decisions – and yet it marks a moment of relief for thousands of people, a legal pause in the face of the radical upheaval triggered by the Trump administration’s ...
It is not a new accusation – and yet it sounds sharper, more personal, more unflinching than many before. Michael Wolff, long-time Trump observer and author of several bestselling books about the president, ...