Investigative Journalism
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the AfD sect, has once again impressively demonstrated that she possesses neither class, respect nor empathy: She has withdrawn into the parallel world in which ...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 ...
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 ...