America’s 1933 - The Abolition of the Republic
In March 1933, under pressure from the streets, the German Reichstag passed a law that still makes the world shudder: the so-called Enabling Act. It stripped parliament of its legislative power ...
"A big, ugly cut" – Trump’s monster bill passes the House of Representatives
It is a law of gigantic proportions - 887 pages long, filled with tax cuts, spending reductions, new billions for the military and the deportation machinery. But what President Donald J. Trump calls the "One Big Beautiful Bill" ...
The New Red Line - How Trump Is Weaponizing Citizenship
It began with a letter. On June 26, 2025, Republican Congressman Andy Ogles called on the United States Department of Justice to investigate the naturalization of Zohran Mamdani - a Democratic lawmaker ...
“I Hated That Dog” – The Story of Kristi Noem and the Shooting of Cricket
It is a story that reads like something from a dark Southern novel – yet it comes from the pen of a politician who presents herself as an “unshakable patriot” and, until recently, was considered a strong contender for Donald Trump’s vice-presidential pick. In her book No Going Back ...
Secret Honorarium in a Horse’s Name - How Kristi Noem Enriched Herself With Political Donations
From the very beginning, everything seemed discreet - perhaps too discreet. A shell company in Delaware, named after one of her horses. A dubious nonprofit organization with barely any discernible purpose. And finally: $80,000 that flowed directly to Kristi Noem’s ...
Custom-Made Art - Trump Replaces the “Worst Portrait Ever” With an Approved Self-Copy
It is a move that stands out even in the long history of narcissistic state art: Donald Trump had his official portrait at the Colorado State Capitol swiftly replaced - because it did not flatter him enough ...
USA Accuse Iranian Hackers of Targeted Disinformation Campaign
Washington once again finds itself facing a targeted digital provocation that affects not only national security but also carries explosive political implications. Pro-Iranian hackers claim ...
Self-Consumption in a State of Emergency - America Loses Its Last Sense of Shame
It was a sentence fit for a dystopian novel - only it didn’t fall in fiction but during a press tour through a real internment camp in the state of Florida. Kristi Noem, Homeland Security Secretary under Donald Trump, ...
USAID is dead - up to 14 million could follow
It was a moment of self-congratulation in Washington. Marco Rubio, Secretary of State under Donald Trump, stood before the cameras and announced with a satisfied look the end of USAID ...
Applause, Disgust, and Alaska - How Lisa Murkowski First Saved and Then Scolded Trump’s Monster Bill
Washington - It was a political performance of rare ambiguity, staged in the solemn marble of the U.S. Senate. On Tuesday afternoon, precisely at 2:42 p.m., Lisa Murkowski cast her vote - “Yes.” ...
The Silent Subsidy Model - How the Government Rewards Corporations and Punishes Workers
There is a quiet truth about America’s labor market that is never spoken in campaign ads or stump speeches: The most successful, most profitable companies in the country are having their workforces subsidized by the government - through Medicaid, ...
A Triumph Full of Fractures – Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Passes the Senate
Washington, July 1, 2025 – In the midst of a stifling July heat, after a sleepless night of legislative wrangling, the US Senate today passed President Donald Trump’s central legislative project of tax breaks ...
The Shadows of the Lie – Pam Bondi, Epstein, and the Promise of Horror
Washington, summer 2025. The world has grown accustomed to many impositions. But sometimes there are sentences that appear out of nowhere and carve themselves into the public consciousness like a scratch on glass ...
California's Fields Lie Empty - Trump's Raids Drive Farmworkers to Flee and Farmers to Ruin
Oxnard, California - Lisa Tate stands at the edge of her strawberry field, her gaze drifting across rows of ripe fruit glistening in the California summer sun - untouched, unharvested, on the verge of decay.
Drone War - Ukraine Strikes Russian Arms Plant Deep Inside the Country
Kyiv – In a symbolic counterstrike, a Ukrainian long-range drone hit a major Russian arms plant in the city of Izhevsk - roughly 1,300 kilometers from the Ukrainian border. The attack ...
A Farewell in Tears – When USAID Was Silenced
It was a quiet yet powerful protest, carried by respect, sorrow, and anger: two former U.S. presidents and a rock star bid farewell on Monday in an emotional video call to the staff of the U.S. Agency for International Development ...
The Fastest Dinosaur in the World – When Tyrannosaurs Compete for the Crown of Racing
Auburn, Washington – There are sporting events so epic you wonder if they really happened - or if a child with dino fever wrote the script. Welcome to one of those moments ...
Setback in the Senate - Trump Fails to Push Through Medicaid Exclusion
Washington - It is a rare moment in the politically charged climate of the United States: The Republican-dominated Senate has turned against a central measure of President Donald Trump ...
"Victory 45-47" - The Scent of Democratic Decay
There was a time when American politics smelled of burnt ideals, of cold coffee in Congress or the quiet sweat of responsibility. Today, it smells like "Victory 45-47" - a golden olfactory revelation from the House of Trump ...
Our investigation confirms it: Trump opens the gates for Putin’s banks - a break with the West
Washington - Our investigation has now definitively confirmed it: The Trump administration has eased key sanctions against Russian banks, including Gazprombank, Sberbank, and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation ...
38 Arrested in Protests Against Trump’s “Big Ugly Bill” – Activists Carry Coffin Props into Capitol
Washington, D.C. – In a powerful protest against Donald Trump’s controversial tax and spending bill – the so-called “Big Ugly Bill” – 38 demonstrators were arrested at the U.S. Capitol on Monday ...
Trump’s New Decree Threatens Critics with Denaturalization, Deportation, and Penalties - Important for Tourists Too
Washington, D.C. – Anyone visiting or living in the United States should now think twice before speaking out. A new memo from the U.S. Department of Justice under President Donald Trump is causing global outrage: ...
When the President Grabs a Marker - Trump Scolds Fed Chair with a Sharpie
Washington, D.C. – In the history of American presidencies, there have been many unusual messages - on letterhead, in tweets, as margin notes on legislative drafts. But what Donald Trump just sent to the Chairman of the U.S. Federal ...
To Protect Kilmar Garcia from Trump - A Nation in a State of Legal Emergency
Nashville, Tennessee - A man remains in prison. Not because he is guilty. Not because he wants to flee. But because the justice system ...
Party of the Little People – at 24,000 Euros a Month
There are news items that can only be processed with a glass of absinthe and a cold washcloth on your face. The AfD, self-proclaimed voice of the oppressed people, has quietly but generously rewarded itself - with a salary that seems as ...
One Witness, Many Contradictions - How the Trump Administration Squandered Credibility in the Case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Washington / Nashville - This is a case that long ago transcended legal questions - it has become a symbol for how a government deals with law, truth, and human life. Construction worker Kilmar Abrego Garcia ...
Outrage, Stage, Blood – The Case of Bob Vylan and the Limits of Artistic Freedom
It was a hot summer day at Worthy Farm in Somerset when British rap-punk act Bob Vylan took to the West Holts Stage at the Glastonbury Festival ...
The Cheeseburger State – How Trump's Administration Deep-Fries the Law
There is political communication. There is propaganda. And then there is what the White House is publishing these days – a mixture of fast-food aesthetics, authoritarian commands, and post-ironic absurdity
The Return of the Lead Chamber – A Visit to the Worldview of Lukas Courtial
There are places where time seems to stand still. Not in a poetic way, like a sunset over the Eifel, but in an oppressive, shabby way – like a musty local museum where ...
In the Shadow of the Cross – The Crucifixion Murder in Arizona and the Dark Mission of Adam Christopher Sheafe
It was a scene of biblical cruelty, but it did not take place two thousand years ago in Jerusalem – it happened in the spring of 2025 in the Arizona desert. An elderly pastor, William "Bill" Schonemann, 76 years old, ...
When the Money Dries Up – How Priscilla Chan’s School Project Ended and 400 Children Were Left Behind
East Palo Alto, California – It was a promise born from the idea that wealth brings responsibility. When Priscilla Chan, pediatrician and wife of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, established a school for disadvantaged children in 2016 ...
The Double Standard of the Immigration Debate – Marco Rubio and the Shadows of the Past
It is the biographical details that can shake the political memory of a nation – especially when they stand in stark contradiction to one’s own demands. Republican Senator Marco Rubio, a vocal proponent of strict immigration laws ...
"Our hands aren't clean either" - How Trump recalibrated America's moral compass
It was an interview straight out of a Machiavellian stage play: two people on the set - Maria Bartiromo, a Fox News veteran known for her sharp rhetoric, and Donald J. Trump, the president of rearview mirrors and distortions ...
Holy Trumpus of the Latter Days – How JD Vance Is Rewriting the Gospel of White Salvation
Sometimes history is not written but barked into existence. Saturday was one of those days. JD Vance, Vice President of the United States and a passionate virtuoso of right-wing rhetoric, picked up his pen
Blind Flight Into the Storm - How the Pentagon Is Cutting Off the World's Weather Vision
It is a quiet retreat with enormous consequences: Starting June 30, the U.S. Department of Defense will cease sharing its satellite data with scientists and weather services ...
The Price of Integrity – How Thom Tillis Tried to Bring Down Trump’s Tax Bill and Failed His Party
Washington, June 29, 2025 – It was a moment of rare clarity in an era of political fog. On the night from Saturday to Sunday, the U.S. Senate voted 51 to 49 to move forward on a piece of legislation that changes everything: ...
Vacation in the Shadow of Sharia - How the Taliban Are Opening Afghanistan to Tourists
Kabul, June 2025 - By motorcycle, camper van, bicycle, or scheduled flights from Istanbul and Dubai, they are arriving: curious travelers from Europe, adventure-seekers from Asia, globetrotters with GoPros and visas in their passports ...
The Forgotten of the Empire - How Trump's Deportation Machine Is Tearing Iranian Families Apart
New Orleans, Portland, Basile - they are quiet places, far removed from the centers of power in Washington. And yet these days, they lie at the heart of a policy that strikes with full force.
Alligators in the Service of Deterrence - How the US Department of Homeland Security Has Lost All Sense of Proportion
Just a few hours ago, an image appeared on the official X account of the US Department of Homeland Security (@DHSgov): Four alligators lined up in formation, each wearing a cap with the white letters "ICE
Trial of strength in the Senate – Trump’s tax gift is at risk of collapsing within his own party
It is Saturday evening in Washington, and the Senate is still lit. No ceremonial act, no state visit - but a political ballet of nerves where every vote counts. While President Donald Trump ...
Swamp of Shame – Protests Against the New Deportation Camp “Alligator Alcatraz”
Ochopee, Florida – It was a hot, oppressive day in the Everglades as hundreds of people gathered along the Tamiami Trail ...
A State Without Mercy – How ICE Arrested a Six-Year-Old Boy With Leukemia
Los Angeles, May 2025 – It was a day like so many in the labyrinth of American immigration bureaucracy – functional, overcrowded, emotionless ...
What a Pathetic Little Man – Martin Sellner and the Sealed Worldview with a Tinfoil Cap
He sits there, pale, self-righteous, claiming to be misunderstood by the world. Martin Sellner, the tragicomic mascot of the Identitarian movement, once again finds life difficult.
Roberts Whines – While the Supreme Court Sells Out the Law
Washington, June 28, 2025 – The highest judges in the United States, whose rulings can bend entire societies, are suddenly showing thin skin. Chief Justice John Roberts took the microphone in Charlotte on Saturday ...
Your Life No Longer Belongs to You
"You’re done for – the judge doesn’t like Russia." The sentence hit like a stone. No legal argument, no doubt, no room for interpretation. Just a verdict that had already been made long before any hearing began ...
The Price of Delusion – How Cheaply Alice Weidel Sells Out Germany
It is a spectacle of political decay that plays out daily on Alice Weidel’s account – the co-chair of a party that no longer presents itself with democratic decency ...
The New Justice Scandal – Trump Administration Fires Lead Prosecutors in Capitol Investigation
Washington, June 28, 2025 – In a drastic move that shakes confidence in the independence of the American justice system, the US Department of Justice on Friday dismissed at least three prosecutors who played a key role ...
A Quiet Farewell – President Biden Honors Melissa Hortman
At the Minnesota Capitol on Friday, a quiet, solemn atmosphere prevailed as President Joe Biden arrived in person to pay his final respects to the late Speaker of the House Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark ...
Raid at Dawn – ICE Terror in Huntington Park
It was just after four in the morning when the blast shook the street. An explosion, an armored vehicle, armed agents, a drone – and in the middle of it all: a mother with her two small children, ...
A Dress Made of Tax Freedom – Jeff Bezos and the Great British Wedding Spectacle
34 million pounds for a wedding in Venice – that’s not love, that’s logistics. Jeff Bezos, space tourist and passionate tax avoider, treated himself and Lauren Sánchez ...
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