Investigative Journalism
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 ...
Donald Trump announced on Friday another decision that shakes the already overstretched structure of the global economy. Starting November 1, Chinese imports are to be hit with a 100 percent tariff - a move that can hardly ...
On Friday morning, the White House set in motion a step that shook the foundations of the public service: the beginning of mass dismissals of federal employees. What is officially called a “reduction in force” ...
The American financial markets experienced on Friday a rare combination of overvaluation, nervousness, and political unpredictability. The trigger was not a macroeconomic shock but a message from the president ...
In Broadview, an unassuming suburb of Chicago, more was revealed in a single day about the political climate of the United States than in weeks of parliamentary debate. In front of an unremarkable building ...
There are nights when history takes a grotesque turn - and in this case, it takes the shape of frogs. While Washington argues about "uprisings" and "national security," ...
It was to be expected - and yet again a spectacle for the history books. While in Oslo the cameras were focused on a 58-year-old Venezuelan woman receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for her unwavering ...
Over Montgomery, Alabama, there hangs a strange heaviness these days. It is not the weather - it is the waiting. In a small house not far from Maxwell ...
It is late in the federal courthouse at the Everett McKinley Dirksen building in Chicago. The benches are full, the air is heavy, and the words Judge April M. Perry speaks ...
As the nation watches Chicago, where Donald Trump is having the deployment of the National Guard against demonstrators defended, a decision has just been handed down that reaches far ...
Sometimes I sit there, read the news, and wonder if maybe it’s me. Maybe I’m the last one who missed the memo. Maybe the new reality ...
What began as a serious legal dispute quickly turned into a farce in a Chicago courtroom, more reminiscent of a political slapstick show than a hearing on the legality of a military ...
It was a morning like any other in the White House - if you ignore the fact that the President of the United States nearly fell asleep during a two-hour press conference, insulted the press, ...
It was one of those evenings when a city begins to breathe, even though everything looks as if it were holding its breath. At dusk, hundreds of people ...
There are moments when power unintentionally exposes itself. One of those moments occurred during the October 7, 2025 hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, when Reuters photographer Jonathan ...
A federal judge in Chicago has drawn a line against the Trump administration’s drive for executive dominance. In a ruling that reaches far beyond Illinois, he declared the arrest of 26 people by ...
Donald Trump has finally turned the office of the president into a political court of punishment. On Wednesday, he publicly called for the imprisonment of two elected officials – the Democratic governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, ...
The world is reeling. In the United States, Donald Trump is once again sending tanks against protesters and calling it “domestic security.” In Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is bombing every corner he ...
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, ...
In Portland, a city that in recent months has become the focal point of American constitutional questions, a woman entered the ICE building on October 7 whose public persona has long been draped in a religious myth ...
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