Investigative Journalism
It is a pattern you only notice when you pause. When you stop scrolling through the endless stream of images, headlines, quotes, and faces and start to look at it like a choreography ...
It is a book that sounds like a last word from beyond the grave – unvarnished, harrowing, almost too direct to still pass as literature. Nobody’s Girl, the posthumously released autobiography of Virginia ...
There are moments when one wonders whether Donald Trump still knows what he is doing – or whether he has long since become his own contradiction. While his administration calls on farmers, ...
A few moments ago, the 9th U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled in the case Trump v. State of Oregon, Case No. 25-17108, that Donald Trump may formally assume command of the Oregon National ...
A European warning signal came in the form of a sentence, as cool as it was controlled: "Sometimes we simply no longer tell certain things." No affront, no scandal - just a sober admission ...
There are days when history doesn’t begin with a bang but with a step – more precisely, with thirteen small ones. On Sunday, Donald Trump boarded Air Force One in ...
Japan’s political scene stands at a turning point – and at the same time before a mirror in which familiar contours from Washington, Rome, and Budapest are reflected. A governing party loses its majority, a long-standing coalition ...
Behind the doors of the White House, far from cameras and calculated gestures, a scene reportedly unfolded on Friday that left even long-time observers of American foreign policy speechless ...
A dead fisherman, a raging president, and a continent watching as the old order of the West begins to crumble. In the Caribbean, where America has projected its power ...
Joshua Haymes’ words recall the darkness of past centuries. In his latest podcast, the Christian nationalist commentator said that Christians should defend the institution of slavery because the Bible “makes it clear ...
Maria worked for 13 dollars an hour. She cleaned schools in Florida, receiving a check every two weeks for 900 dollars - enough to survive with her eleven-year-old son ...
It has come to this: The United States of America, inventors of democracy, the Statue of Liberty, and the three-course meal to go, have now achieved what was once reserved only for banana republics ...
First came the inflatable frog costumes. Dozens of them, wobbling through Times Square like a rush image of resistance, their oversized green limbs glittering in the October light. They were absurd, deliberately so ...
It began with a lunch in Manhattan and ended in a system of money, humiliation and moral extortion. Jeffrey Epstein, who had maneuvered his way from ...
He served his country for almost a quarter of a century. Afghanistan, Iraq, the endless desert drills from Camp Pendleton to Quantico - Doug Krugman was one of those officers who never raised their voice ...
It was a scene of outward politeness and inner tension: Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, side by side in the Cabinet Room of the White House, flanked by Vice President J. D. Vance and Treasury Secretary Scott ...
A sentence like the ones that appear on Telegram dozens of times - casual, inconspicuous, dangerous. "Or is it merely media theater?" asks Björn Höcke in that strangely measured tone that pretends ...
Chicago, East 106th Street. A gray morning, one of thousands like it in this city. Inside Walgreens, it smells of cardboard, disinfectant, and cheap shampoo. People pick up prescriptions, ...
There are moments when one wonders whether history repeats itself - or whether it is simply mocking us. Friedrich Merz: Talks like someone eager to please ...
His name was Chad Joseph, 26 years old, a young fisherman from Trinidad and Tobago. Not a drug lord, not a terrorist, not a soldier. He just wanted to go home - a short boat ...
Admiral Alvin Holsey, head of the U.S. Southern Command and top military commander for Central and South America, has resigned - out of conscience. He no longer wanted to be part of a war that is not one ...
Donald Trump has done it again - announcing plans to build his own triumphal arch in Washington. Not for veterans, presidents, or the American people. No, for himself ...
Austin is facing a weekend that says more about American democracy than any speech in the Capitol. The nationwide "No Kings" demonstration is scheduled for Saturday - a symbolic protest against abuse ...
A president who wants to fire rockets over California. A vice president who defends chat messages about Hitler, and chats that call rape epic. America, a country that has long since lost its compass.
What Mike Johnson said yesterday broke almost every chain. The Speaker of the House said on Wednesday: "Anyone participating in the 'No Kings demonstrations' this weekend to protest against the Trump administration ...
It was a sentence that struck like a detonator in the history of American foreign policy - casually spoken, but with tectonic force. "I authorized it," Donald Trump said Wednesday in the Oval Office when a journalist ...
In the pale light of a San Francisco courtroom, between stacks of paper and flickering fluorescent tubes, Judge Susan Illston spoke a sentence that sounded like an echo from another political time ...
It began unremarkably, almost like a footnote. Yet what happened on Wednesday in Washington was a quiet tremor. Dozens of reporters turned in their access badges and left the Pentagon ...
It began with a scene one might mistake for satire: a man in a giraffe costume stands in front of the ICE building in Portland, singing Rod Stewart and laughing. Minutes later he is taken away by officers ...
The air on Chicago’s South Side has been thick with anger – and tear gas – since Tuesday afternoon. In a residential neighborhood where children were playing and people were running errands, agents of the U.S. Border Patrol ...
In the corridors of the Pentagon, one sound echoes above all others these days: the echo of its own fear. Where journalists once reported at every step on military strategies, foreign missions, ...
It is a global confrontation without cannons but with similar destructive power. What once served as a technocratic instrument of economic control - tariffs, visas, export restrictions - has long since become a weapon ...
Once upon a time there was a man who believed he could heal the American soul. Dr. Phil McGraw, the television psychologist with the fatherly frown and the warm Texan accent, who had ...
Washington these days resembles a besieged palace. In the corridors of the White House, where strategies were once forged, now reigns the silence of an administrative corpse. No budget, no trust, no sense ...
When you think you have already seen everything in research - people, situations, every document, every image, every boundary of state cruelty - there usually comes the moment that silences even the most ...
The patriotic Barbie of the Trump cabinet wanted to fly - but the airports of this nation just waved her off. Kristi Noem, the self-proclaimed border guardian with a permanent smile and a grip on the Bible, had a plan: ...
It began as so many weekends in the American South begin - with floodlights, music, and homecoming. Homecoming: the ritual of return, pride in one’s school, the attempt to hold a fractured ...
When Donald Trump’s Secretary of War Pete Hegseth talks about “standards,” it now sounds like a declaration of war on his own body mass. On Monday, the self-proclaimed fitness warrior proudly boasted that several members of the Texas National Guard ...
America is negotiating with itself. About whether equality remains a fundamental right - or a relic of a time when people still believed that history could mean progress ...
It takes a peculiar mixture of self-confidence in power and intellectual carelessness when an incumbent attorney general announces before rolling cameras that she will “take apart the entire Antifa.” Pam Bondi said it as if she were ...
It began quietly – with a flight across the Atlantic, a handshake in a London café, and an invitation no one in Westminster had expected. Nigel Farage, the former ...
It was cold, it was pouring rain, and yet none of the roughly one thousand people on Portland’s Burnside Bridge seemed to feel it that gray Sunday afternoon. Their bodies were painted ...
Twelve days of paralysis. Twelve days in which the most powerful country in the world disables its own institutions while hundreds of thousands of federal employees sit at home without pay ...
Russia once again attacked Ukraine’s power grid overnight - part of a systematically conducted campaign aimed at destroying the country’s energy infrastructure before the cold sets ...
What began as a weekend of joy ended in blood and disbelief. We have deliberately refrained from showing images, because the scenes on site exceed the limits of what is bearable ...
In the United States, the movement that once brought millions of people into the streets has almost disappeared - not because it failed, but because it was deliberately silenced ...
The American judiciary is at a boiling point. In the halls where once the whisper of dignity prevailed, there now echoes the muffled rumble of revolt. It is October 2025, ...
There are moments when loyalty doesn’t break but burns. The outburst of Laura Loomer, one of the loudest voices of the Trump movement, marks exactly such a moment ...
In Washington, there is once again that silence louder than any argument. It drifts through the long halls of Congress, through the empty metro stations of the capital, through the closed gates of the national parks ...
In the echoing corridors of the federal court in Maryland unfolds a drama that exposes the fault lines of American immigration policy with surgical precision. Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen ...
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