When All You Want Is Dish Soap - And End Up in Handcuffs
Chicago, East 106th Street. A gray morning, one of thousands like it in this city. Inside Walgreens, it smells of cardboard, disinfectant, and cheap shampoo. People pick up prescriptions, ...
The New and Old Crusaders - Right-Wing Populism, Racism, and the Return of Delusion
There are moments when one wonders whether history repeats itself - or whether it is simply mocking us. Friedrich Merz: Talks like someone eager to please ...
Dead, but Not Worth a Headline - How Trump’s Caribbean War Targets Innocent Fishermen
His name was Chad Joseph, 26 years old, a young fisherman from Trinidad and Tobago. Not a drug lord, not a terrorist, not a soldier. He just wanted to go home - a short boat ...
Admiral Alvin Holsey resigns - Why the top U.S. commander no longer wanted to support Trump’s war against Venezuela
Admiral Alvin Holsey, head of the U.S. Southern Command and top military commander for Central and South America, has resigned - out of conscience. He no longer wanted to be part of a war that is not one ...
The Arc de Trump - When Megalomania Turns to Concrete
Donald Trump has done it again - announcing plans to build his own triumphal arch in Washington. Not for veterans, presidents, or the American people. No, for himself ...
The Governor and the Crown - How Greg Abbott Turns Protest into a Threat
Austin is facing a weekend that says more about American democracy than any speech in the Capitol. The nationwide "No Kings" demonstration is scheduled for Saturday - a symbolic protest against abuse ...
Rockets, Hitler, Hate and the Return of the Twilight of the Gods – Trump’s Most Dangerous Moment
A president who wants to fire rockets over California. A vice president who defends chat messages about Hitler, and chats that call rape epic. America, a country that has long since lost its compass.
"You will be treated like Hamas and Antifa" - The new language of power
What Mike Johnson said yesterday broke almost every chain. The Speaker of the House said on Wednesday: "Anyone participating in the 'No Kings demonstrations' this weekend to protest against the Trump administration ...
The Invisible War - How Trump Unleashes the CIA Against Venezuela
It was a sentence that struck like a detonator in the history of American foreign policy - casually spoken, but with tectonic force. "I authorized it," Donald Trump said Wednesday in the Oval Office when a journalist ...
When Government Becomes a Siege - Judge Halts Mass Layoffs
In the pale light of a San Francisco courtroom, between stacks of paper and flickering fluorescent tubes, Judge Susan Illston spoke a sentence that sounded like an echo from another political time ...
The Silence in the Pentagon - The Departure of the Journalists
It began unremarkably, almost like a footnote. Yet what happened on Wednesday in Washington was a quiet tremor. Dozens of reporters turned in their access badges and left the Pentagon ...
The Giraffe That Sang Too Much - Then It Was Arrested
It began with a scene one might mistake for satire: a man in a giraffe costume stands in front of the ICE building in Portland, singing Rod Stewart and laughing. Minutes later he is taken away by officers ...
It Felt Like War - Trump’s Border Troops and the State of Emergency at Home
The air on Chicago’s South Side has been thick with anger – and tear gas – since Tuesday afternoon. In a residential neighborhood where children were playing and people were running errands, agents of the U.S. Border Patrol ...
Empty Halls, Total Control - How the Pentagon Tried to Lock Up the Press and No One Signed
In the corridors of the Pentagon, one sound echoes above all others these days: the echo of its own fear. Where journalists once reported at every step on military strategies, foreign missions, ...
The New Cold War of Trade - When Two Rule, Everyone Else Loses
It is a global confrontation without cannons but with similar destructive power. What once served as a technocratic instrument of economic control - tariffs, visas, export restrictions - has long since become a weapon ...
The Doctor and the Disaster - How Dr. Phil Tried to Defeat Wokeness and Failed Against Reality
Once upon a time there was a man who believed he could heal the American soul. Dr. Phil McGraw, the television psychologist with the fatherly frown and the warm Texan accent, who had ...
The War of Donald T. – How a President Dismantles the State and Governs Through Chaos
Washington these days resembles a besieged palace. In the corridors of the White House, where strategies were once forged, now reigns the silence of an administrative corpse. No budget, no trust, no sense ...
They carried me like a corpse - ICE straps refugees into full-body restraints and calls it security
When you think you have already seen everything in research - people, situations, every document, every image, every boundary of state cruelty - there usually comes the moment that silences even the most ...
Ice-Cold Rejection - ICE Barbie Stays Grounded
The patriotic Barbie of the Trump cabinet wanted to fly - but the airports of this nation just waved her off. Kristi Noem, the self-proclaimed border guardian with a permanent smile and a grip on the Bible, had a plan: ...
America’s Deadly Friday – How Mississippi Became a Mirror of a Broken Culture
It began as so many weekends in the American South begin - with floodlights, music, and homecoming. Homecoming: the ritual of return, pride in one’s school, the attempt to hold a fractured ...
Pentagon Pete and the War on Waistlines
When Donald Trump’s Secretary of War Pete Hegseth talks about “standards,” it now sounds like a declaration of war on his own body mass. On Monday, the self-proclaimed fitness warrior proudly boasted that several members of the Texas National Guard ...
The Ku Klux Klan in Pinstripes - How Trump’s Republicans Are Attacking Black Voting Rights Before the Supreme Court
America is negotiating with itself. About whether equality remains a fundamental right - or a relic of a time when people still believed that history could mean progress ...
Operation Headwind: Pam Bondi Declares War on Thought – Germany Is Already Listening. Antifa Is the New Word for Humanity
It takes a peculiar mixture of self-confidence in power and intellectual carelessness when an incumbent attorney general announces before rolling cameras that she will “take apart the entire Antifa.” Pam Bondi said it as if she were ...
The Crusade Across the Atlantic – How America’s Christian Right Is Gaining Ground in Europe – An Investigative Report on Networking Meetings Also Involving the CDU
It began quietly – with a flight across the Atlantic, a handshake in a London café, and an invitation no one in Westminster had expected. Nigel Farage, the former ...
Naked and Unyielding - Portland’s “Emergency Ride” Defies Rain, Power, and Moral Panic
It was cold, it was pouring rain, and yet none of the roughly one thousand people on Portland’s Burnside Bridge seemed to feel it that gray Sunday afternoon. Their bodies were painted ...
The Frozen State - Paralysis, Threats, Inflation and the Silence of a Capital
Twelve days of paralysis. Twelve days in which the most powerful country in the world disables its own institutions while hundreds of thousands of federal employees sit at home without pay ...
The Winter War for Light - Russia’s Attacks, Trump’s Hesitation, Europe’s Moral Bankruptcy
Russia once again attacked Ukraine’s power grid overnight - part of a systematically conducted campaign aimed at destroying the country’s energy infrastructure before the cold sets ...
The Night of Horror in Mississippi
What began as a weekend of joy ended in blood and disbelief. We have deliberately refrained from showing images, because the scenes on site exceed the limits of what is bearable ...
The Vanished Movement - Where Black Lives Matter Really Stands
In the United States, the movement that once brought millions of people into the streets has almost disappeared - not because it failed, but because it was deliberately silenced ...
In the Shadow of Law - How America's Judges Are Rebelling Against the Supreme Court
The American judiciary is at a boiling point. In the halls where once the whisper of dignity prevailed, there now echoes the muffled rumble of revolt. It is October 2025, ...
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