The Low Point
There are moments when the mask falls and the grimace behind it becomes visible. Moments when even the most skillful PR machinery can no longer conceal what has long been obvious: ...
Investigative Journalism
There are moments when the mask falls and the grimace behind it becomes visible. Moments when even the most skillful PR machinery can no longer conceal what has long been obvious: ...
These are sentences that sound like they come straight from the script of an authoritarian nightmare. Donald Trump, baseball cap pulled low over his face, conjures in a speech the images of Chicago and New York ...
It was a cool, sober sentence that shook the political power centers in Tallahassee and Washington: U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams of the Southern District of Florida on Thursday ordered the closure ...
It is an image that imprints itself indelibly into the chronicle of American democracy: heavily armed FBI agents carry empty boxes into the home of John Bolton in Bethesda, ...
It is August 21, 2025, three o'clock in the morning. While Orlando sleeps, the vehicles of the Florida Department of Transportation roll in. Their mission: the erasure of a rainbow. Not just any rainbow ...
Donald Trump has once again accomplished what no one thought possible: he has painted himself into the Olympus of the American tariff lords. Literally. In the West Wing of the White House ...
Alice Weidel, the unfit fairy tale maiden, Putin puppet and icon of the AfD sect, has once again impressively demonstrated that she possesses neither class, respect nor empathy: She has withdrawn into the parallel world in which ...
Donald Trump has done it again. He has rewritten the laws of physics. In his world it is not oil spills, plastic, or overfishing that drive whales onto the coasts, but wind turbines ...
Weeks of research have brought to light a shocking picture that in its scope even surpasses pessimistic forecasts. The United States is experiencing under the second Trump administration an unprecedented reversal of decades of environmental protection policy, ...
The night once again brought the familiar wail of air raid sirens over western Ukrainian cities, but this time the missiles fired from Russia struck a target of particular symbolic and economic significance.
There are moments when one wonders whether Washington is still a capital or already a badly written Netflix series. Donald Trump has once again proven that he does not just blur the ...
America is no longer the country of enlightenment, not the country of free science, not the country that once defeated polio and smallpox with vaccines. It is a country ...
For a long time, we have documented the growing tensions between the federal government in Washington and the state of California only in passing, without placing the escalation at the center.
Economic reality knows no patriotic slogans, no national anthems and no campaign stagecraft. It follows sober laws that operate as relentlessly as gravity. Whoever ignores them risks not only his own downfall but drags entire economies down with him ...
On Wednesday, Union Station in Washington D.C. offered the grotesque image of an orchestrated spectacle that could hardly be surpassed in its absurdity. Vice President J. D. Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ...
A federal judge in Manhattan on Wednesday denied the government’s request to release the transcripts of a grand jury from the prosecution of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein ...
The acting U.S. Attorney for Nevada, Sigal Chattah, has decided not to prosecute Tom Alexandrovich. The decision is striking because the evidence is on the table and seven other defendants in the same complex are being prosecuted.
From the outside, Hungary appears to be the darling of Europe’s far right. For Germany’s AfD, the country under Viktor Orbán is seen as a model – a fortress against migration, a haven of conservative values ...
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 ...