Investigative Journalism
It is a grim image painted by the UNICEF report Innocenti Report Card 19 – an image that shows children in Germany far removed from the sense of security that still dominates the country’s public self-image...
onald Trump, 79, president of the United States and walking permanent wave of world history, has done it again. In his inexhaustible mission to turn reality into a grotesque reality-TV format, he did not forget the name ...
In the annals of democratic degeneracy, the apotheosis of Andrew Bailey will be recorded as a turning point - that fatal moment when the last bastions of constitutional integrity capitulated before the altars of populist demagoguery ...
The morning of June 6, 2025, broke over Los Angeles like so many others before - golden and deceptively peaceful. But in the warehouses of Ambiance Apparel in the Fashion ...
There are moments that, in their simultaneity, seem almost surreal. In Washington Donald Trump leads European heads of state and government through the West Wing and proudly ...
It was a case that, even in the overheated atmosphere of present-day America, stands out like a signal flare. Nathalie Rose Jones, 50 years old, from Lafayette, Indiana, published ...
Identified Targets: Judges and Associated Attackers. This article provides a shortened yet still comprehensive analysis of the targeted use of Truth Social by U.S. President Donald Trump and his extremist networks to undermine democratic institutions, particularly the judiciary.
It was a picture for the history books: President Zelenskyy in a black suit instead of his usual military attire, surrounded by European heads of state and government who had rushed to Washington at lightning speed.
What at first glance looks like the diagram of a fantasy role-playing game is in fact an attempt to bring order to a complex web of companies, ...
What drives a president to cover the capital of his own country with soldiers from three different states? The answer does not lie in the officially cited reasons of crime and homelessness, but ...
A high-ranking Israeli cybersecurity official is arrested in Nevada, the charge is attempted sexual exploitation of a child. Court documents confirm the arrest, police records document the 10,000 dollar bail, his name appears on the ...
On a weathered wall in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, an ICE agent chases a dog wearing a Superman cape. The spray can has captured what a thousand diplomatic pens do not dare to write: the naked face of power ...
One must burn this image into memory: The President of the United States applauds a war criminal. Not hidden, not by accident - no, in front of rolling cameras, with the fervor of a groupie ...
There are symbols that are as American as baseball, Coca-Cola and "God Bless America" at every halfway patriotic barbecue. The bald eagle belongs to them. That is exactly what Donald Trump ...
A new international survey paints a merciless picture of Donald Trump’s global reputation. In most countries surveyed, distrust clearly prevails - and yet there are regions ...
As if Washington, D.C., were a parade-ready training ground and not the capital of a federal democracy, the White House is shifting the axis of power ever more toward the executive. The latest signal: ...
One morning in 2025, students at School No. 15 in Melitopol enter their classroom. In front of them stands a man in camouflage and a balaclava. “Good morning. I am your new ...
It was one of those grand, staged moments in which Donald Trump wanted to show the world that he was still the master of the stage. With the tone of a man who had just changed ...
Vladimir Putin grinned broadly as the B-2 bombers thundered overhead - American stealth bombers, once designed to keep Moscow’s imperial ambitions in check, now formed the honor guard for a man wanted by the International ...
There are moments when world politics is not decided in conference centers or at summits, but between a beer tap and a fireplace. Charlbury, Oxfordshire, a place where usually the fiercest battles are fought between “bitter” and “lager,” ...
In Anchorage, Alaska, temperatures on this Friday are just barely in the double digits - but politically it is a day when the thermometer climbs into the red zone. In just a few hours, US President ...
On Monday morning, Washington will not wake up but be rearranged. At several locations, signs read: "General cleaning from 10 a.m." A harmless phrase from city sanitation - that is how it sounds. Yet in recent days, the capital ...
It's a remarkable spectacle when one of Germany's largest daily newspapers documents a broadside from Washington - and essentially just lets it stand as is. The latest human rights report from the US State Department attests to ...
Donald Trump has reached a new low point in his political self-promotion - and that says something for a man who already sells Bibles with his name on them. The President of the United States ...
The images recall a war zone, yet it is Washington, D.C., in August 2025. Heavily armed National Guard members patrol in front of Union Station, Humvees block intersections, and in the early hours of August 14, 45 people are arrested ...
At first glance, the news seems technocratic: The president wants to make a Heritage Foundation economist, E. J. Antoni, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics - the apparatus that measures the temperature of the American labor market month after month ...
Washington is, in these August days, a place where the air crackles as if the city were under an invisible high voltage. Streets that are usually shaped by restaurant guests, tourists, and the bustling activity of the capital ...
It is a strange reflex of German politics to look across the Atlantic with a mixture of horror and a secret fascination whenever the wrecking ball once again swings through democratic ...
It is a legal bombshell from the First Lady's office: Melania Trump is demanding that Hunter Biden immediately retract statements in which he linked her, in an interview, to convicted ...
The Cotswolds - that English stretch of countryside that looks as if someone had soaked Rosamunde Pilcher in lavender and pressed her onto watercolor paper ...
In Washington, a political experiment is currently underway whose explosive force extends far beyond the boundaries of the District of Columbia. Donald Trump ...
It sounded like an American dream that was supposed to fit seamlessly into the romantic biography of a country superstar: Carrie Underwood, 42, a child of a small town in Oklahoma, ...
Forget fake papers, forget fleeing through deserts or tunnels - the new trend in the United States is called "Epstein Files Camouflage." Simply make a coat out of the endless pages of the never- ...
The republic is at a tipping point. 26 percent for the AfD is more than a statistical anomaly - it is the symptom of a fundamental shift, the scope of which we may only understand ...
In the icy cold of Alaska, two men will meet on Friday whose handshake could shake the world order. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin plan to negotiate at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson ...
It is a piece of news that stands out even in the bizarre world of the American prison system: Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted human trafficker for the sexual abuse of minors, is allowed to leave prison - not because her ...
US inflation held steady at first glance in July - and yet the picture is anything but reassuring. While falling gasoline and food prices kept the inflation rate in check, ...
In a sharply worded message to President Donald Trump, California Governor Gavin Newsom made it unmistakably clear on Monday that he considers the attempt by Republican-led states ...
There are moments in history that burn themselves into the collective memory because they show how thin the veneer of civilization really is. August 11, 2025, was such a moment ...
It was meant to be the masterstroke. Donald Trump, under growing pressure over persistent questions about his ties to the Epstein scandal, pushed the Justice Department ...
Sometimes a single sentence is enough to feel the nervousness building in the background. For Donald Trump, that moment has now come - and the fear level is rising ...
Latin America may seem geographically far away to many, but the politics of dehumanization know no borders. They have already arrived here, creeping into our laws, our discourse, our normality....
JD Vance has once again shown in recent days how far a politician can go when party loyalty matters more than truth. In several TV interviews, he presents himself as a supposed whistleblower in the Epstein affair ...
The email reached FEMA employees late Tuesday night. Management Directed Reassignment Effective August 5, 2025 - a subject line that ended careers and upended lives. Sara Birchenough, a personnel director whose name would ...
There are images that reveal more about a society than any statistic ever could. In the United States, sometimes a glance into an ICE detention center is enough to understand how far reality, delusion, and unreality have already merged.
There are political gestures that say more than any speech – and that carry more weight in their symbolism than any spontaneous remark. When US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently shared a video ...
Sometimes it takes decades for a sentence to come back and catch up with its author. Donald Trump is experiencing exactly that moment this week. Just now, as the debate over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein ...
When Gretchen Whitmer entered the Oval Office on Tuesday, she did so with a message the President of the United States did not want to hear. The Democratic governor of Michigan, ...
Our work is not only an analysis of American domestic policy, but also an early warning system for democracy on this side of the Atlantic. When we document how in the United States academic freedom is being shut down ...
It is a scene that has long been recorded in the history books: summer 1932, the so-called "Preußenschlag" (Prussian Coup). Under the pretext of restoring security and order, the Reich government removed the democratically ...
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