"Make yourselves invisible - until you strike": Trump's most dangerous attack on civil order
In Washington, a political experiment is currently underway whose explosive force extends far beyond the boundaries of the District of Columbia. Donald Trump ...
Carrie Underwood – vom „American Idol“ zur Farm-Idylle, die langsam zur Farce wird
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, ...
The Ultimate Tip for Migrants 2025 - Guaranteed ICE-Proof
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 Creeping Normalization of the Extreme
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 ...
The Hour of the Autocrats: How Putin and Kim Are Shuffling Their Cards Before the Alaska Summit and Blowing All Dimensions
In the icy cold of Alaska, two men will meet on Friday whose handshake could shake the world order. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin plan to negotiate at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson ...
Kim Davis before the Supreme Court – The new campaign against marriage equality
Ten years after the historic ruling of the United States Supreme Court that guaranteed same-sex couples in all states the right to marry, the fight over this fundamental right is flaring up again - ...
A prisoner with special privileges - How Ghislaine Maxwell has flung the gates to freedom wide open
It is a piece of news that stands out even in the bizarre world of the American prison system: Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted human trafficker for the sexual abuse of minors, is allowed to leave prison - not because her ...
All In - Trump’s Tariff Roulette and the Creeping Inflation
US inflation held steady at first glance in July - and yet the picture is anything but reassuring. While falling gasoline and food prices kept the inflation rate in check, ...
An open letter from California – Gavin Newsom warns Trump about the “game with fire”
In a sharply worded message to President Donald Trump, California Governor Gavin Newsom made it unmistakably clear on Monday that he considers the attempt by Republican-led states ...
The Attack on Washington: When Invented Numbers Become a Seizure of Power and Trump’s Mental State Needs to Be Examined
There are moments in history that burn themselves into the collective memory because they show how thin the veneer of civilization really is. August 11, 2025, was such a moment ...
Behind Closed Doors – Judge Stops Trump’s Maxwell Push and Calls It a “Diversion” – Grand Jury Transcripts Remain Sealed
It was meant to be the masterstroke. Donald Trump, under growing pressure over persistent questions about his ties to the Epstein scandal, pushed the Justice Department ...
Taco, now it’s getting ridiculous – Trump’s most loyal suddenly in the crosshairs
Sometimes a single sentence is enough to feel the nervousness building in the background. For Donald Trump, that moment has now come - and the fear level is rising ...
The Two Sides of the Abyss and the Specter of American Intervention in Latin America
Latin America may seem geographically far away to many, but the politics of dehumanization know no borders. They have already arrived here, creeping into our laws, our discourse, our normality....
From the Riverbed to the FBI Files – How JD Vance Twists the Epstein Scandal Between Obedience to Power and Delusions of Grandeur
JD Vance has once again shown in recent days how far a politician can go when party loyalty matters more than truth. In several TV interviews, he presents himself as a supposed whistleblower in the Epstein affair ...
Trump's ICE Fiasco: When the State Sacrifices Its Own Rescuers
The email reached FEMA employees late Tuesday night. Management Directed Reassignment Effective August 5, 2025 - a subject line that ended careers and upended lives. Sara Birchenough, a personnel director whose name would ...
The Red Cloak Over the Shadows - and the Dead Travel Along
There are images that reveal more about a society than any statistic ever could. In the United States, sometimes a glance into an ICE detention center is enough to understand how far reality, delusion, and unreality have already merged.
God’s Work, Trump’s Will – How Pete Hegseth Turns the Culture War into Government Policy
There are political gestures that say more than any speech – and that carry more weight in their symbolism than any spontaneous remark. When US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently shared a video ...
Memory Does Not Forget – And the Internet Even Less - Trump Defended Mike Tyson
Sometimes it takes decades for a sentence to come back and catch up with its author. Donald Trump is experiencing exactly that moment this week. Just now, as the debate over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein ...
Beauty, Power and the Silent Shadow – Trump, Maxwell, Brunel and the System Behind the Facade
Paris - 1991, an evening gala of the fashion world: glaring lights, tense faces, young models on stage whose future depends on the votes of a few jurors. In the middle of the jury sits Donald J. Trump, ...
Trump Against the Engines of the World - Why His Tariff Campaign Could Also Shake Germany
When Gretchen Whitmer entered the Oval Office on Tuesday, she did so with a message the President of the United States did not want to hear. The Democratic governor of Michigan, ...
Export Model of Control – How Trump's Political Playbook Muzzles Research and Threatens Europe's Democracies
Our work is not only an analysis of American domestic policy, but also an early warning system for democracy on this side of the Atlantic. When we document how in the United States academic freedom is being shut down ...
From Washington to Berlin – When Trump, AfD and CDU/CSU Undermine Federalism
It is a scene that has long been recorded in the history books: summer 1932, the so-called "Preußenschlag" (Prussian Coup). Under the pretext of restoring security and order, the Reich government removed the democratically ...
Between Tear Gas and Trump Loyalty – The Bizarre Untouchability of Cory Mills
There are investigations that make you want to put your head in your hands. Cory Mills is one of them. In a republic that once prided itself on moral leadership,
Where Russia Once Left America: The Trump-Putin Meeting in Alaska - A Documentation of Hour Zero
Alaska - that vast, icy outpost of America, where the Bering Strait leaves only 88 kilometers between two world powers, will on August 15, 2025, become the stage for a meeting whose historical irony is hard to surpass.
And There Was Number – The Revelation of the Chart Prophet
It was a moment that could only arise in the presence of Donald Trump: a podium, a crowd, a president, and in his hand not the Constitution, not a concept, but a laminated piece ...
The Brosius-Gersdorf Case: A Mirror of Our Time
The withdrawal of Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf from her candidacy for the Federal Constitutional Court on August 8, 2025 marks a turning point that goes far beyond the person and the office.
Power Plays, Ultimatums and Fault Lines - A Week in the Political State of Emergency Under Donald Trump
It was one of those weeks in which the headlines from Washington, Austin, London, Moscow and Geneva did not stand side by side, but merged into a single breathless panorama ...
The Shadow Circle - How the White House Secretly Deliberated on Epstein While JD Vance Lied to the Public
It was one of those stories that sounded too absurd to be true - and for that very reason, it was. While the country speculated, the administration denied. While journalists investigated, the vice president himself dismissed the reports.
Commitment to Exclusion - How Trump Is Forcing Universities to Account for the Role of Origin
What appears to be a bureaucratic directive is in truth an attack on the heart of American education: President Donald Trump wants to force universities across the country to disclose how much a person's origin ...
The End of the Climate Watchers: How Trump Is Destroying Humanity's Most Important CO₂ Satellites – And Why the World Knows Nothing About It
An investigative report on the systematic shutdown of the NASA missions OCO-2 and OCO-3, the silence of mainstream media, and the catastrophic consequences for the future We also ask for your support ...
The Systematic Destruction of the FBI: An Insider Report
Our investigations reveal the shocking details of an unprecedented wave of purges that is shaking the Federal Bureau of Investigation to its very foundations. What is happening behind closed doors in Washington surpasses ...
America is burning: The Christian Jihad is devouring democracy
It is over. The United States of America, this great experiment of the Enlightenment, is sinking into a vortex of religious delusion so dark that even ...
The Staging of Peace - How Trump and Putin Are Making a Mockery of the World
A summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin is on the horizon. The details? Still unclear. The timing? Maybe next week. The location? "To be announced later." It sounds more like the teaser for a boxing match ...
The Great Blockade – How Trump’s Tariff Policy Turns the Global Economy into a Pawn of His Power Plays
With a single stroke of the pen, Donald Trump has done what economists had been warning about for months – he has plunged the world into an economic state of emergency. As of Thursday at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time ...
Spirits of Order - How Trump and the AfD Use Fabricated Violence for Political Gain
With a single post on his platform Truth Social on August 6, 2025, President Donald Trump made it clear that he is ready to intervene in the self-governance of the capital ...
A Republican in the Crossfire - How a Town Hall Meeting in Nebraska Turned into an Open Humiliation
Es war ein Abend, der für den republikanischen Abgeordneten aus Nebraska, Mike Flood, eigentlich Routine sein sollte. Ein klassisches Town Hall Meeting, wie er sie seit Jahren ...
ICE Baby’s Speedway Slammer - How Trump’s Latest Deportation Adventure Spins Out Right at the Start
Sometimes reality writes its own parodies. When Kristi Noem, the cosplay-loving Secretary of Homeland Security, proudly announced her latest prestige project on Tuesday - a migrant detention center in rural Indiana, christened “ICE Baby’s ...
The Masks Fall - Why We Invested 300 Hours in the Analysis of the AfD Strategy Paper
Bonjour Paris - There are moments when investigative work is not just a journalistic assignment but a democratic obligation. When we learned at the beginning of July ...
The AfD Strategy for Seizing Power: A Comprehensive Political Science and Legal Analysis of the Strategy Paper “Shaping Germany Politically”
The present strategy paper of the AfD parliamentary group “Shaping Germany Politically – The End of the Firewall and the Path to Government Responsibility” ...
Ghislaine Maxwell fights to keep grand jury transcripts sealed – A strategic maneuver with far-reaching consequences - We nearly fell off the courthouse steps
We nearly fell off the courthouse steps - The longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein is pulling every legal lever to prevent the release of explosive procedural documents. Behind it lies a complex calculation.
Revelation: Woody Allen Compared Epstein’s House to “Castle Dracula” - and Exposes a Prominent Silence
It is a document that chillingly shows how normalized and at the same time grotesque life around Jeffrey Epstein was. A letter from director Woody Allen from 2016, ...
Democracy is burning - and Trump is inspecting his new ballroom
While Texas is in a state of political emergency and the national question of democracy is becoming sharper and sharper, Donald Trump strolls across the roof of the White House and inspects the place ...
Epstein Files: House Committee Forces Justice Department to Release Records - Clintons Also Subpoenaed
Washington - In a move that once again thrusts the political explosiveness of the Jeffrey Epstein case into the spotlight, the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday compelled the Justice Department ...
Our research shows: "Northern Lights" turns exhaust gases into a billion-dollar business
(Reading time approximately 25 minutes) The Vision at the End of the World On Norway's rugged west coast, where fjords cut deep into the land and the Atlantic ...
From Burgers to Bond - The Tragicomic Fall of Trump Burger
When you hear this story, you might think it is a script for a biting political satire: A Lebanese entrepreneur who wants to build a fast food empire in Texas under the name "Trump Burger" ...
USA on the Way to Planet Trump – Las Vegas in Free Fall and New Visa Bonds Threaten to Choke Tourism for Good
Las Vegas, the sparkling desert metropolis that for decades has shone into the Nevada sky like a glowing promise of luck, entertainment, and boundless freedom, ...
In the Shadow of the Adriatic - Valentina Matviyenko's Son, Italian Villas, and the Quiet Empire of San Marino
It is a picture that seems to come from another world: while in Moscow sanctions and international isolation tighten their grip on the political elite of the Putin era, ...
In the Shadow of the Salamanders - Texas, the Fleeing Democrats and America’s Eternal Battle with Gerrymandering
It was a dramatic scene that unfolded in the summer of 2025 in the United States: While in Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott angrily threatened to have Democratic lawmakers arrested, ...
Maxwell, Trump and the Hot Iron of a Pardon - Republicans Sound the Alarm
It is a political minefield that Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi have entered these days - and it is precisely leading Republicans who are urgently warning their party against the next breach of taboo: ...
The New Deportation Machinery in New York – Trump’s Second Offensive and the Return of Fear
Since the beginning of Trump’s second term, the atmosphere in New York City has changed noticeably. Not through sudden mass raids, as many had feared, but through a bureaucracy that has lost its face ...
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