Investigative Journalism
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, ...
There are moments when loyalty doesn’t break but burns. The outburst of Laura Loomer, one of the loudest voices of the Trump movement, marks exactly such a moment ...
In Washington, there is once again that silence louder than any argument. It drifts through the long halls of Congress, through the empty metro stations of the capital, through the closed gates of the national parks ...
In the echoing corridors of the federal court in Maryland unfolds a drama that exposes the fault lines of American immigration policy with surgical precision. Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen ...
Donald Trump announced on Friday another decision that shakes the already overstretched structure of the global economy. Starting November 1, Chinese imports are to be hit with a 100 percent tariff - a move that can hardly ...
On Friday morning, the White House set in motion a step that shook the foundations of the public service: the beginning of mass dismissals of federal employees. What is officially called a “reduction in force” ...
In Broadview, an unassuming suburb of Chicago, more was revealed in a single day about the political climate of the United States than in weeks of parliamentary debate. In front of an unremarkable building ...
There are nights when history takes a grotesque turn - and in this case, it takes the shape of frogs. While Washington argues about "uprisings" and "national security," ...
It was to be expected - and yet again a spectacle for the history books. While in Oslo the cameras were focused on a 58-year-old Venezuelan woman receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for her unwavering ...
Over Montgomery, Alabama, there hangs a strange heaviness these days. It is not the weather - it is the waiting. In a small house not far from Maxwell ...
It is late in the federal courthouse at the Everett McKinley Dirksen building in Chicago. The benches are full, the air is heavy, and the words Judge April M. Perry speaks ...
As the nation watches Chicago, where Donald Trump is having the deployment of the National Guard against demonstrators defended, a decision has just been handed down that reaches far ...
Sometimes I sit there, read the news, and wonder if maybe it’s me. Maybe I’m the last one who missed the memo. Maybe the new reality ...
What began as a serious legal dispute quickly turned into a farce in a Chicago courtroom, more reminiscent of a political slapstick show than a hearing on the legality of a military ...
It was a morning like any other in the White House - if you ignore the fact that the President of the United States nearly fell asleep during a two-hour press conference, insulted the press, ...
It was one of those evenings when a city begins to breathe, even though everything looks as if it were holding its breath. At dusk, hundreds of people ...
There are moments when power unintentionally exposes itself. One of those moments occurred during the October 7, 2025 hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, when Reuters photographer Jonathan ...
A federal judge in Chicago has drawn a line against the Trump administration’s drive for executive dominance. In a ruling that reaches far beyond Illinois, he declared the arrest of 26 people by ...
Donald Trump has finally turned the office of the president into a political court of punishment. On Wednesday, he publicly called for the imprisonment of two elected officials – the Democratic governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, ...
The world is reeling. In the United States, Donald Trump is once again sending tanks against protesters and calling it “domestic security.” In Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is bombing every corner he ...
In hardly any other institution is Donald Trump’s will to power more visible than in the Supreme Court of the United States. With an ultra-conservative six-to-three majority, ...
In Portland, a city that in recent months has become the focal point of American constitutional questions, a woman entered the ICE building on October 7 whose public persona has long been draped in a religious myth ...
What is unfolding this Tuesday in the southwestern suburbs of Chicago is more than a show of force - it is a precedent. The first units of the Texas National Guard arrived in the afternoon ...
The new security state has no pomp. It stands behind manicured hedges, wears glass facades without a nameplate, and works with data we produce voluntarily. In Vienna, Virginia, just a few miles ...
October 7, 2025, begins with a promise and ends with a claim. In between lies a hearing in which fewer answers were found than battle lines. Pam Bondi, the Attorney General of the United ...
There are moments in history when political power no longer looks outward but turns inward - against its own country, against its own citizens ..
What is unfolding these days in the United States is more than a political conflict - it is an open stress test for American democracy. Donald Trump has ...
The government calls it reform, but in truth it is a change of system. With the abolition of citizen’s income and the introduction of a so-called new basic security, a chapter begins that ...
Donald Trump has once again postponed his latest round of tariffs - this time the announced 25 percent on medium and heavy-duty trucks. The import duties were actually supposed to take effect on October 1, together with ...
When Alice Weidel writes, she doesn’t inform – she infects. Her recent claim that “everything you send via messenger, to friends or your partner, will be read by the EU” is not a misunderstanding.
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