Investigative Journalism
It is 679 million dollars that could cost America its future. On Friday the U.S. Department of Transportation announced that it was cutting an entire package of federal funds – money intended for the ...
In the summer of 1987, Donald Trump embarked on a conspicuous trip to the Soviet Union with his then-wife Ivana – embedded in a European tour that first took him to Paris and then on ...
The principle of loyalty replaces the principle of merit - and the world watches as the oldest democracy of the modern era tears itself apart. The American Republic does not die ...
Markus Söder loves to appear in costumes. Sometimes as a nutcracker, sometimes as Superman, sometimes as "Doner-Söder," posing between meat skewers and food trucks as if he were an influencer of the fast-food industry ...
There are documents, as our research shows, that come in dry bureaucratic language and yet capture an entire era in a nutshell. The “Justification & Approval” of the Department of Homeland ...
Our research reveals how Jim O’Neill, Peter Thiel, Rockbridge and Leonard Leo are undermining America’s health policy. It is a scene that resembles a political drama: In Atlanta, hundreds of CDC employees stand in front of ...
Es ist ein Bild, das man eher aus einer Diktatur erwarten würde als aus den Vereinigten Staaten: Während Flammen sich durch die Wälder der Olympic Peninsula fressen, tauchen plötzlich maskierte…
Chicago - The city is preparing for a scenario that only a few weeks ago seemed almost unthinkable - the possible deployment of the military in the third largest metropolis in the United States ...
What once stood as a beacon of freedom is sinking into a whirlpool of authoritarianism and institutional madness. The United States, that self-proclaimed city on a hill, is stumbling into a darkness that ...
The shadows of drones glide silently over the snow-covered fields of Thuringia. Invisible to the naked eye but present on the radar screens of German military bases, they circle above those routes where American ...
Unter dem Titel „Die Architektur der Kontrolle: Wie Peter Thiels Datenmacht und das politische Netzwerk Rockbridge die Demokratie untergraben“ – https://kaizen-blog.org/die-architektur-der-kontrolle-wie-peter-thiels-datenmacht-und-das-politische-netzwerk-rockbridge-die-demokratie-untergraben/ ...
It is news that at first glance may seem inconspicuous, but whose consequences could be immense: Mexico announced on Wednesday that it is suspending postal shipments to the United States.
The American president has never made a secret of his contempt for the energy transition. Now Donald Trump is carrying his fossil campaign into the world with brute force – ...
The handcuffs clicked on Monday morning in Baltimore. Once again. For Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 30 years old, father, metalworker, it must have felt like an endless nightmare with no awakening.
The masked men came at dawn in East Palo Alto. Dressed in black, faces covered, with no visible insignia. It is August 26, 2025, shortly after 7 a.m., when ...
Melania Trump as the cover star of a fashion magazine - for parts of the Vanity Fair staff this apparently sounds like the end of the Western world. “I am walking out that damn door,” threatened an editor, ...
It was a sentence, casually spoken in the Oval Office, that triggered a tectonic shift within the Trump camp. Donald Trump announced that 600,000 Chinese students should in the future be welcome in the United States.
The cabinet meeting has already dragged on for more than two hours when Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy makes a joke that unintentionally hits the core of the Trump administration: “I don’t think Pete or Bobby ...
When CDU politicians repeatedly met with MAGA representatives from the USA in recent years, the media and fact checkers focused on the obvious connections: Trump, his loud supporters, the visible populists ...
One might think Washington had overnight been transformed into another capital. Not Moscow, not Beijing – no, the model lies further east: Pyongyang ...
It begins with ten sentences, carved in stone, that have survived for thousands of years. In Texas they are now to serve once again as a moral compass - not in churches, but in classrooms. Attorney General Ken Paxton ...
In Washington, armed National Guard soldiers patrol, heavily equipped, as one knows from crisis regions. Yet amid the machine guns and combat boots, a scene is revealed that could hardly ...
The USS Gravely, the USS Jason Dunham and the USS Sampson - three Aegis destroyers of the US Navy - plow through the Caribbean, accompanied by submarines and fighter jets. In Caracas, meanwhile, ...
There are moments when history exposes itself. 338 pages of transcript, we have read it in full, recorded under oath, were supposed to bring light into the darkness. Instead we are ...
The story of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is no longer just an individual case. It has become a symbol of how far the Trump administration is willing to go to enforce its immigration policy ...
Trisha Hope was never a fringe figure. In the world of Trumpism she belonged to the loud ones: self-proclaimed national delegate from Texas, permanent activist, chronicler and cheerleader all in one. Her book series “Just the Tweets” ...
Yesterday we had already reported that we are on our way to Baltimore - because of the upcoming court hearing in the case of Kilmar Garcia. Today we are experiencing how Donald Trump is ...
The silence is deceptive. Anyone walking today through the streets of Portland, Berkeley, or Charlottesville no longer encounters the heated demonstrations that just a few years ago shaped the image of American cities ...
It is an old pattern that repeats itself with uncanny precision: Donald Trump feels threatened – and his first reaction is dehumanization. This time his anger is directed at Lisa Cook, ...
The story of Kilmar Abrego Garcia reads like a dystopian novel, yet it is bitter reality and reveals the shocking erosion of the rule of law at the heart of American democracy. While the Trump ...
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