The Empty Land - Scotland’s Lonely Search for People. Germany’s Future if the Course Remains
Kyle of Lochalsh - Late in the evening, five men stand in the hall of Scot West Seafoods. The light is harsh, the air smells of salt and metal. They ...
The Hour of Decisions - and of Doubt
America votes - and yet it is not just about the candidates. It is about the condition of a nation that, since Donald Trump’s return to the White House, has turned into a mixture ...
Between Brooklyn and Albany - New York’s Election as a Mirror of American Times
New York - On this Tuesday, the largest city in the United States is deciding not only on its next mayor but also on a political self-conception that reaches far beyond the borders of ...
Dragged from Her Car at Gunpoint – The Story of Dayanne Figueroa – “I Thought I Was Going to Die”
Chicago – The morning began harmlessly. Dayanne Figueroa only wanted to grab a coffee before heading to work. Then she drove into a scene that looked more like a war zone ...
Food Aid Payments Now Partially Restored – Trump’s Reluctant Concession and Epstein Would Have Been So Proud of Donald
Washington – For the first time since the beginning of the government shutdown, Donald Trump has been forced to back down. After weeks of defiance and growing anger, his administration announced on Monday evening that the nation’s most important food assistance program ...
The Invented Rebellion - How a Federal Judge Shatters Trump's Portland Fantasies
Portland, Oregon – In a country that has grown accustomed to the constant rhetoric of chaos and unrest, a federal judge has silenced the noise. Karin Immergut, a judge appointed by Donald Trump himself, ...
This was no costume - The businessman who appeared as Hitler
The man who appeared in a Des Moines bar dressed as Hitler and posed with laughing guests was no stranger. His name is Donnie Gardner, he lives in Johnston, Iowa, and runs ...
The Ballroom of Dependencies – When Media Corporations Help Finance Their President
Donald Trump’s Donald Trump’s reconstruction of the White House is no longer just a building project. It is a reflection of his architecture of power - built from concrete, vanity, and dependency. The demolition of the East Wing ...
The Senator and the War That Never Was - Republican Rand Paul on Trump's Venezuela Policy
"These boats are 2,000 miles from the United States. They cannot travel more than 100 miles." With this sentence, Rand Paul, Republican from Kentucky and one of the few remaining ...
The Week of Decision - Trump's Tariffs Before the Highest Court of the United States
Donald Trump has turned the tariff policy of the United States into an art of exercising power. Where previous presidents negotiated, he threatens. Where others used sanctions or diplomacy, he swings the tariff hammer ...
The Skeleton Man Before the Minister - How Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Was Haunted by Reality on Halloween
Once upon a time there was a well-kept front yard in a wealthy neighborhood of Washington, a few withering pumpkins, a porch with an American flag - and in the middle of it all a skeleton sitting in a garden chair ...
The Last Democrat - How Barack Obama Is Bringing a Lost Party Back Together
Norfolk, Virginia - It is an image that feels both familiar and desperate at once: Barack Obama stands on a stage, the sun breaking through gray clouds, the crowd cheering, and ...
Holy Warriors and Geopolitics - Trump’s Threat Against Nigeria
Donald Trump, the dealmaker, in his own world probably already a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the man who uses war as a metaphor for strength, threatened on Saturday on his own platform ...
Fire Over the Caribbean Sea and the Phantom in the Mediterranean, Jordan Goudreau - While Venezuela’s Military Trains Civilians
The Trump administration has, within a few weeks, established a new pattern of power: it defines war so that it no longer looks like war and claims it is therefore not subject to legal limits ...
When the State Lets Its People Go Hungry - and a Republican Politician in a Pickleball Costume Shows the Better America
Desperation that shows up in grocery lists - that is how this November begins for millions of Americans. In Miami, Christine Tully sits at her kitchen table and writes down, as always, what she needs: chicken, ...
Corporations First – And What This Has to Do With Germany and the AfD
Trump's administration has erased the boundary between politics and profit. The state has become a service for its donors. By the end of October 2025, the Trump administration had suspended, dropped, or closed a total of 204 investigations ...
"Miller Hunts Families" – The New Wall of Protection and How Trump's Inner Circle Is Fleeing to Military Neighborhoods
Washington – In a city already under high tension, this is a signal of weight. More and more senior officials of the Trump administration are retreating to military housing complexes – places ...
The Republic of Hunger – and Its President in a Marble Bathroom
There are political symbols that make history - and then there are Donald Trump’s toilets. While millions of people in the country do not know how they will pay for their next meal, ...
An American President Against America
In a country that likes to see itself as the embodiment of the “American dream,” a simple table says more about the political present than a thousand speeches. It comes from the official ...
The Digital Pulpit – Scott Presler and the Gospel of Trumpism
Scott Ryan Presler, born May 15, 1988, in Jacksonville, Florida, embodies a new type of American activist – disciplined, media-savvy, and firmly rooted in Donald Trump’s orbit ...
Federal Judges Order Trump Administration to Continue Food Assistance
Boston/Washington – Two federal courts ruled almost simultaneously on Friday that the Trump administration must continue payments for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) during the government shutdown. Judges Indira Talwani ...
Trump lights the Nuclear Option, offends Asia - and threatens democracy in the name of hunger
Donald Trump has discovered a new political weapon - and it is called the “Nuclear Option”. In an angry Truth Social post, after he had offended Asia, the president on Thursday ...
Candy, Power and Delusion – when the president shows his wounds to children. We have seen this before...
Washington – On the South Lawn of the White House, children stood in colorful costumes, between pumpkins and music, as the president of the United States stepped onto the stage ...
America’s Hunger Verdict
Boston – Outside, rain beats down on the asphalt of Boston, inside a nation waits for a verdict. In the courtroom of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, ...
Candy or Handcuffs – How ICE Barbie Teaches Fear
There are politicians who dress up for Halloween – and those who simply stay that way. Kristi Noem has decided to be both: minister, horror figure, and state myth all in one ...
The Intended Hunger Games – How Trump Denies Bread to the Poorest. A Distressing Investigative Report
The paralysis in Washington has further worsened the hunger crisis in America, which affects not only numbers but people. The shutdown has now lasted four weeks, and as of November 1, the ...
The President of Hot Air - How Trump Is Losing the Trade War and Even Toyota Contradicts Him
Donald Trump wanted to make history this week. A new chapter of strength, of the “Return of America.” Instead, the world is witnessing a president who sees himself as the greatest dealmaker fail at the reality ...
The President and the Beloved Cow – How Trump’s Argentina Deal Betrays America’s Ranchers
This article is the continuation of our investigation “How Trump Is Turning America’s Cattle Ranchers Against Him.” What is happening now confirms every suspicion that has been circulating for months across the prairies of Texas ...
Secret Channels – “Congress reviews Trump’s government messages on X”
In Washington, it is no longer a rumor but an official proceeding: The United States Congress is already investigating the Trump administration for the alleged misuse of unauthorized communication platforms for government ...
Architecture of Corruption – Trump Fires the Entire Arts Commission and Plans a New Versailles in the White House
It was a blow against any form of independent oversight: The White House has dismissed all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, the long-standing federal commission that for ...
Sons of Power – Donald Trump Jr. Mocks “No Kings” Protests and Praises Saudi Authoritarianism as Stability
In a hall of glass and gold, under chandeliers that seemed more like symbols than sources of light, Donald Trump Jr. stood on the stage of the “Future Investment Initiative” forum in Riyadh ...
"Yes, Ma’am" – How Judge Ellis Put the Border Patrol Chief on a Leash
It was a sentence as simple as it was humbling. “Yes, Ma’am,” said Gregory Bovino, the burly head of the U.S. Border Patrol in El Centro, California, every time Judge Sara Ellis made a new demand. “Yes, Ma’am” ...
Court of Appeals Overturns Its Own Ruling on the Portland National Guard Deployment
It was a quiet but remarkable admission. The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, based in San Francisco, has overturned its own decision in the case State of Oregon, City of Portland v. Donald ...
The Appearance of a Political Madman, with War Rhetoric Against His Own People Alongside Japan’s Newly Elected Far-Right Prime Minister
It was one of those scenes that make history - not because of its grandeur, but because of its tone. On the flight deck of the U.S.S. George Washington, before thousands of soldiers, ...
Between Oath and Conscience - Soldiers Against the President
Chicago - In a country that loves to celebrate its soldiers as heroes, dissent is an act of courage. Two former members of the Illinois National Guard have now crossed that line ...
The Organizer - Scott Presler, the "Kirk Whisperer", and how he is reprogramming the MAGA movement
He is not a lawmaker, not a minister, not a televangelist - and yet Scott Presler channels more energy through the American right than many Republican power brokers in Washington. While Donald Trump fills the stage, ...
A country in descent - When America's skies grow emptier, paychecks stop coming, and Trump's economy revolves around artificial values
America’s skies are thinning. Planes take off later, some not at all. And down below, in the glow of radar screens, sit men and women who have not been paid for weeks ...
The Highest Court or Trump’s HR Department - The President Who Makes Power Over Copyright Dance
Once upon a time, there was a court that watched over laws. Today, it seems to be managing résumés. On Monday, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court of the United States ...
Dancing Like a Clown - While More Than 14 Million Americans Are Acutely Malnourished
There are people the course of history could do without - and sometimes such a person dances on the edge of an abyss. Donald Trump, 79, created such a scene in Malaysia: a president who ...
Who Are the People with the Masks? - How Trump Diverts Tens of Thousands of Investigators from Real Police Work
The narrative is simple: more personnel, tougher crackdowns, more safety. The reality behind it is more complicated - and more dangerous. Our analysis of internal ICE figures, agency responses to inquiries, and publicly available datasets ...
South Korea Between the Fronts - How a Government Tries to Contain the Protests Against Trump and Xi Jinping
In the narrow streets of Myeongdong, where tourists and street vendors compete for the same space, Lin Yung-pin leads a group from Taiwan through the maze of lights, scents, and voices ...
The Seed of Wrath – Europe’s Lost Generation
A report on the radicalization of youth between algorithms and fear. The Concert. July 2025. Under the Croatian summer sky, music thunders over a crowd that stretches to the horizon ...
Trump, Tech, and the Ballroom - How a President Finances His Sun King Dream with Corporate Money
What began as an architectural whim has long since become a political scandal with explosive potential. Behind the demolition of the historic East Wing of the White House lies no harmless renovation, but a massive construct of ...
Republicans Refuse - Trump's Power Play in the Midwest Faces Defeat
In Washington, it has long been the norm for Republican majorities to bend to the will of the president. But in Indiana and Kansas, two states in the heart of the Midwest, Donald Trump ...
From Alabama to Arkansas - Even the Republican States Are Marching Against Trump - An Investigative Report
It was as if the nation had held its breath for a moment - and then set in motion what many had thought impossible. In all 50 states, from ...
Portland - A Line, a Step, Gunfire and “Lawful Enforcement”
The footage from Portland shows a country in a state of emergency. In front of the ICE building runs a blue line - it separates the agency’s property from public space. A boundary that no ...
Recruited in the Stream - How ICE Ends Up in the Playlists
Between two songs, a voice suddenly appears. It sounds factual, almost friendly, but the message hits: “In too many cities, dangerous illegals walk free. Join ICE - with ...
The Silent Submarines - How the Sea Became a Smuggling Highway
You pass through a gate that is little more than a wall, and the world changes. On one side, the city - dusty, loud, marked by trade and daily life; ...
The Banners of San Francisco - City Lights and the Silent Uprising of Words
Sometimes it takes no scream, only a sentence. In San Francisco, on the façade of the legendary bookstore City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, four large banners have been hanging since this week - white fabric, ...
Kingdom of Code
The Dark Enlightenment has long been undermining American democracy. It began slowly, quietly, without much attention, not with uniforms or marching bands. It began with a blog. With a man who calls himself ...
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