Investigative Journalism
There are moments in history when the world collectively puts its hand to its head - not out of fascination, but out of sheer disbelief. One of those moments has now occurred again. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from Apaches fighting against a massive copper mining project on federal land in Arizona that they consider sacred. The justices upheld lower court decisions that allow ...
It begins like an American tragedy, written not in blood, but in omitted budget lines and frozen grant programs. Across the wide fields of Pennsylvania, where hope once bloomed, ...
In Donald Trump's America, boundaries have blurred, and the unthinkable has become political routine. A president who wields the power of pardons as if it were a personal privilege ...
A conversation with Jonathan Turner, former refugee aid worker in South Africa and USAID employee. Vermont/Washington – When the White House announced its new executive order on February 15, 2025, granting preferential entry to white South Africans, ...
The world had grown used to the spectacle: Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed peacemaker, promising a swift resolution to the war in Ukraine – a firm handshake here, a tough deal there. Even during the campaign, ...
It is a sentence that has already gone down in history: “I invented the word ‘equalize.’” Spoken by none other than the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, on May 12,..
It was a sentence only Donald Trump could formulate – direct, glaring, maximally derailing: “Putin has gone absolutely crazy.” No diplomatic nuance, no caveat, no subtext...
It begins with a lawsuit so absurd, it almost reads like satire. But it’s real. BlackRock, the largest asset manager in the world, is suing UnitedHealth — not because the company ...
Dr. Maximilian Krah presents himself in this tweet as a self-proclaimed thought leader for the youth – and in doing so, reveals above all one thing: an authoritarian sense of mission that lacks any trace of democratic humility...
It was a night when the sky over Ukraine no longer carried any promise - only a droning, a whistling, a death from afar. Over 350 Russian drones raced through the darkness, ...
It begins with a handshake. Two women smile into the camera - as if nothing had happened. Mette Frederiksen in sky blue, Giorgia Meloni in the beige of innocence. But what this photo documents is no diplomatic courtesy visit...
It is a strike with surgical precision – and with an ideological scalpel. What President Donald Trump is doing to the Digital Equity Act is not an ordinary budget cut...
Donald Trump, the sitting President of the United States and self-proclaimed dealmaker, who just a few months ago loudly promised to end the war in Ukraine “within 24 hours,” suddenly sounds very different. In a recent Truth Social post ...
Republican Representative Glenn Gruenhagen of Minnesota is once again making headlines – not for legislation or meaningful contributions to education policy, but for a rhetorical smokescreen straight from the toolbox of the Christian right. ...
Donald Trump doesn’t know what he wants. And that might be because he knows nothing. One moment he’s threatening a 50-percent tariff on European goods, the next he’s postponing the whole thing ...
It begins like a déjà vu from times when the separation of powers still meant something: J.D. Vance, Vice President of the United States, publicly offers advice to the Chief Justice of the country, John Roberts, in an interview with the ...
It was just a single post on Truth Social, but its echo rings like a cold command from darker chapters of history: President Donald Trump is demanding the “names and countries of origin of all international students” at Harvard University. Not out of academic interest. Not out of concern for safety...
First moments of freedom – Ukrainian prisoners of war cheer on their way home after a swap with Russia. The bus has just crossed the Ukrainian border. Welcome home.
It was a sunny Saturday morning in West Point, that venerable military academy on the Hudson River, when the President of the United States stepped onto the stage – wearing a red “Make America Great Again” cap, walking heavily, ...
It begins quietly. With a canceled email address. With a lab that suddenly falls silent. With a grant application that goes unanswered. And yet, it is a tectonic shift: America’s scientific soul – thinned out, dismantled, driven away
On Saturday, May 24, 2025, the far-right group Patriot Front marched through downtown Kansas City, Missouri. Members – identifiable by their white face coverings, khaki pants, and navy-blue shirts ...
Madness has found structure. And it wears a uniform. In San Diego, a man was arrested in the hallway of a courthouse – directly in front of the office of a judge who had explicitly ...
The Silent Nightmare of One Man and the New Face of Trump’s Deportation Policy. It happened again. Without warning. Without protocol. And, as a judge noted, without even the semblance of law. Late Friday night, Federal Judge ...
It was the summer when the world stood still - because of a virus that crossed borders, and because of a video that no one could ever forget. On May 25, 2020, a white police ...
Jeanette Vizguerra’s Arrest and the Quiet Coup Against Human Rights. It began with a sentence, spoken by an ICE agent outside a Target store near Denver: “We finally got you.” ...
This is the kind of scenario one might expect in an authoritarian regime – not in a country that calls itself the cradle of democracy: Migrants show up voluntarily for their court hearings, and outside the courthouse, ....
Boston, May 23, 2025 – With a single stroke of the pen, U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs has stopped the latest attempt by the Trump administration to undermine academic freedom. In an emergency hearing ...
On the evening of May 23, 2025, just days before Harvard’s commencement ceremony, history was made in a modest courtroom in Boston. Federal Judge Allison D. Burroughs of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts ...
t was a decision rendered in the tone of an autocracy, not in a democracy built on law and education. On May 22, 2025, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ...
The Return of Economic Nationalism. In a time when markets are reeling and the global order is wavering, Donald Trump once again resorts to his proven tool of provocation: ...
It happened again: Maximilian Krah, the ornithologist of his own grandiosity, has taken to X (formerly Twitter, now Forest of Honks) – armed with the intellectual equivalent of a leaf blower on speed. His diagnosis? ...
What unfolded on May 22, 2025, in the Oval Office was not a diplomatic encounter. It was a performance. A power play, orchestrated by the President of the United States, who does not debate but dominates. Who does not listen ...
Sterling, Virginia – It was an evening that defied comprehension. A political ritual that did not present itself as such – and yet contained all the symptoms of power obsession and economic self-empowerment. At Trump National ...
It sounds like something out of a Kafkaesque play – and yet it's the reality along the southern border of the United States: The same Trump administration that publicly shames humanitarian helpers and accuses them of aiding smuggling ...
It’s just two words. Two words, typed on a social platform once known as Twitter, which now resembles more a marketplace of contempt than a forum for political debate...
How Donald Trump Redefines Autism and Ignores Real Health Threats. It was a scene that has become increasingly common in the new America: Donald Trump sits beside his controversial Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on a stage, ...
From Goebbels to the AfD – The Rebirth of a Term. It is a word that casts a dark shadow over German history – "Lying Press / Fake News." A term etched with sharp contours into ...
It was a mild May evening in Washington. An evening that was supposed to end with wine, conversation, and hope. Instead, it ended with two fatal gunshots. Two young people, Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky, were shot in front of ...
America’s Cold Revolution – Trump’s Law of Social Destruction. A documentation of the great illusion – How Trump’s “beautiful bill” drives the state into debt, strips the poor of their rights, and rewards the rich...
How Trump's Republicans Take from the Poor to Enrich Billionaires. It's an old game - yet under Donald Trump, it feels more insidious than ever: wealth isn't being generated; ...
Trump vs. Radio Liberty – Why Europe Now Has to Save the Legacy of a Free Press. It is one of those stories where historical irony and political reality painfully overlap. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty ...
It begins with a ruse. A supposedly strictly classified dispatch, provided with a codename like “Frank” or “John,” the stamp “Copy No. 1” and the addition “Declassified.” It appears in a magazine called Razvedchik ...
Donald Trump didn’t hijack America. He is America – or at least, what America has become. The gilded slogans, the cruelty paraded as strength, the tax bills wrapped in patriotic lies, the spectacle that replaces policy, ...
How Corporate Executives Like Höttges Indulge in Trump’s Illusions. It is a statement that defies comprehension. Timotheus Höttges, CEO of Deutsche Telekom, has publicly praised Donald Trump's reindustrialization policy. During the company’s quarterly earnings presentation...
A quiet but unmistakable crack is running through the republic. A report from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, dry in tone, unambiguous in consequence: the Alternative for Germany has been classified as proven right-wing ...
The End of Freedom Begins with a Misunderstanding – Kristi Noem, Donald Trump, and the Abuse of Habeas Corpus. It is one of those sentences that make you choke on your laughter: "Habeas Corpus is a constitutional right that allows ...
It was one of the most dramatic turns in the bitter battle over Trump’s deportation policy: On Tuesday evening, a U.S. federal judge ordered that the United States must retain full control over deported migrants who had apparently already been flown ,,,
How Donald Trump Has Perfected the System of Self-Enrichment. Donald Trump, the president who once promised to "drain the swamp," has in truth created a new ecosystem – one in which corruption is no longer concealed but elevated to method...
How Trump Targets Sheriff Kennedy. Dubuque County, Iowa – a rural district on the border of Wisconsin and Illinois, nearly 100,000 residents, a sheriff with backbone – and a president ...
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