Seventh Setback for Trump – Judge Strikes Down Deportation Plans
San Francisco, a late Friday night or early Saturday morning, and suddenly the clock stands still for more than a million people. Edward Chen, federal judge in the Northern District of California, has put the Trump ...
The Gulf Disappears – and Delta Rewrites History
It sounds like a scene from an absurd play: A flight captain opens his navigation manual, the sober revision highlights – and suddenly finds politics. In black and white it says: ...
The Fastest Way to Heaven – Trump’s $15 Ticket
Donald Trump has a new idea for how to get to paradise: by credit card. In a mass email that his Super PAC “Never Surrender” sent out three times, it says in black and white: “Friend, I want to try ...
The Secret War on the Edge of the World - from North Korea’s Coasts to the Caribbean
Sometimes it is the operations that no one is allowed to see that reveal the most about a presidency. In the spring of 2019, Donald Trump sent the legendary SEAL Team 6 on a mission so sensitive ...
The Big Ugly Bill - How Trump's Tariffs Drain Billions from the States
Our research has shown that Donald Trump's tariff policy is not just an ideological project but a gigantic, invisible tax on the US economy. Since January 2025, companies in the United States ...
The Great Step Back - Trump, AfD and the Myth of Industrial Jobs
Donald Trump had sold it as a triumph: "Liberation Day," the day he "freed" industry - from environmental regulations, from bureaucracy, from climate protection. Coal-fired power plants were to be brought back online, wind turbines ...
The Second Deportation - The Trump Administration and the Case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
The Trump administration keeps tightening the screws. On September 4, the Department of Homeland Security submitted a new filing before the immigration court in Baltimore: Should Kilmar Abrego Garcia succeed with his latest attempt to reopen ...
A senior official blabbed that the Epstein files are going to be doctored so that no Republicans get into trouble - top guy 😂😂😂
There are moments when Washington does not feel like the capital of a world power but like the worst reality show on earth. The latest scandal: A senior official at the Department of Justice, Acting Deputy Chief ...
Camp 57, Mustang Republic, Alligator Alcatraz and the Crusade of Deterrence
The backdrop could hardly be more symbolic: barbed wire, scorched grass, the flag above, Governor Jeff Landry in front, flanked by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem. In the images released by his press office, black Ford Raptors ...
Attorneys General of Control - How Russia and Texas Turn the Classroom Into a Stage of Power
Sometimes the transformation of a society first becomes visible in its schools - that was one of the central findings of our investigation. It is a moment that lingers: In Russia, the Prosecutor General ...
Department of War – Trump’s Return to 1789
You rub your eyes, but the president is serious. Donald J. Trump, 79 years old, wants to rename the Pentagon. The Department of Defense is to become the Ministry of War again ...
Kennedy: A Health Secretary Between Nobel Prize and Vaccine War
It was one of those hearings that condense the ambivalence of American politics into a single room. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health, told the Senate Finance Committee that Donald Trump ...
The Shadow Justice - How America’s Highest Court Becomes a Political Instrument and Judges Attack the Supreme Court
The rift runs straight through the American judiciary. It is September 2025, and what is happening in the marble halls of the federal courts has never happened before: ...
The Green Colossus Staggers - How Trump's Tariff War Shatters John Deere and the Farmers
Imagine you are Josh and Dewey Enlow. Every morning you stand on your auction lot in Oklahoma, surrounded by a sea of green giants - John Deere tractors as far as the eye can see.
Florida Puts Health at Risk - How DeSantis and Ladapo Dismantle Immunization
What is happening in Florida is not just another culture-war provocation. It is a frontal attack on modern public health. State Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced Wednesday that Florida would ...
The Distortion of Reality - Why Alice Weidel Explains the World Without Ever Having Seen It
There are images that say more than a thousand words. The photo of an airplane on the runway, with the headline "Afghans miss flight because they were shopping," is such an image ...
Trump’s “Back-to-School Week”: A Timetable of Humiliations
If you believe Donald Trump, the first week of September was the start of a new political school year - with himself as the top of the class, putting America back on the right ...
Sixth Court Blow in a Row – Judge Strikes Down Trump’s Billion-Dollar Cuts to Harvard
A thunderclap from Boston: U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs (U.S. District Court, Docket No. 25-CV-1421) has declared the Trump administration’s cuts of more than $2.6 billion in research ...
The Missing Outcry: Why America’s Streets Stay Too Empty Against Trump – and the Collapse of Trump’s Numbers
The images from Labor Day 2025 tell two stories at once. There are the raised fists in front of Trump Tower in New York, the blue-striped Chicago flags waving through the canyons of skyscrapers, the “No Kings” signs in Boston.
The Troop Poker: How Trump Tests His Power Between Chicago and New Orleans
It is one of those reversals that characterize Donald Trump's presidency: just moments ago he was boasting with the certainty of a conqueror "We are going in," and already he is rowing back, ...
Cocaine, War and Stagecraft - What Trump's Caribbean Strike on "Venezuela's Drug Boats" Is Really About
The images are made for the news primetime: a grainy video from a bird's-eye view, a boat in the southern Caribbean Sea, then an explosion. President Trump announces that on his orders US forces sank ...
The Day Europe Lost Its Innocence
Beijing, September 3, 2025. The sun rose over Tiananmen Square and illuminated a scene of surreal symbolism: three men whose regimes are responsible for the systematic oppression of millions shook hands ...
The Great Emptiness of the Epstein Files - and How Washington Strangles the Truth
33,000 pages, countless black bars, a country screaming for truth - and a Washington that prefers to suffocate it. Washington calls it transparency, in reality it is a disgrace ...
The Modern Slave Trade and the Cold Value of Morality
Der Verdacht lag schon damals lange in der Luft – bei einigen Journalisten, bei Menschenrechtsbeobachtern, bei jenen, die sich auch in diesem Teil der Erde auskennen. Nur Trump selbst durchschaute…
A Week, Five Major Defeats - Trump's Power Fantasies Crash Against the Constitution
Donald Trump is in the middle of a series of legal defeats that are extraordinary even for his presidency, which is marked by constant fire. Within just a few days, one key pillar after another was pulled out from...
The Man Who Built the Wall of Light and Filmed the State
It was a night that shone as brightly in Chongqing as rarely before - not because of the neon facades of the megacity, but because of a single projector. At 10 p.m., a few days before ...
A President in the Dock - Judge Stops Trump’s Use of the National Guard in Los Angeles
It was a legal thunderclap that rolled over Washington this Tuesday: Federal Judge Charles Breyer ruled that the use of the National Guard in Los Angeles to accompany immigration raids was unlawful ...
The Price of False Peace - Why Ukraine Stands Firm While Russia Crumbles
It is a bitter arithmetic of this war: the more fiercely Moscow targets the Ukrainian hinterland with drones and missiles, the more united Ukraine's home front becomes - and the more visibly the edges of the Russian system fray.
Gavin Newsom Sends Karoline Leavitt Into the "Hunger Games" - and the Internet Cheers
When California Governor Gavin Newsom strikes, he strikes hard - and this time it was Karoline Leavitt who got hit. Over Labor Day weekend, his press office dropped a meme depicting the 28-year-old White House ...
Historic Trilateral Meeting in Beijing: Kim, Putin and Xi Demonstrate a New Power Architecture – What Does This Mean for the West?
For the first time in history they will stand together on one stage: Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. The North Korean ruler arrived in Beijing on Tuesday ...
The Unheard Silence - Robert Mueller Remains Silent on the Epstein Scandal While Virginia Giuffre’s Voice Grows Louder After Her Death
In Washington, a symbolic step was taken this Monday: Congress has withdrawn the subpoena of former FBI Director Robert Mueller, who was to testify before the House Oversight Committee as part of the investigation into the ...
Labor Day in Flames - America Against Trump, Billionaires, the Military, and the Sellout of Democracy - A First Report
From coast to coast they roar out their anger. Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, have flooded the streets this Labor Day. "Workers over Billionaires" is written on their signs, and it sounds like a vow: We will ...
America on Fire - The Propaganda of Strength and the Reality of Weakness
Donald Trump celebrates America as "hot," as a country on the rise where prices are "way down," wages are "skyrocketing," and the nation is "strong and respected again." The images he spreads ...
The Ticking Time Bomb of Deindustrialization – Why Berlin Must Act Now Before the AfD Could Take Over the Country
Germany is at a tipping point. The news of the last few weeks is clear: almost 115,000 industrial jobs have disappeared within a year, more than 50,000 of them in the automotive sector alone, ...
The Undead Keeps Tweeting – Trump Drowns Death Speculation in 42 Rage Posts
Donald Trump is so alive that he fired off 42 posts in ten hours – a digital barrage that would make even Russian troll factories blush. Allegedly dead? Ha! The man ...
Parades in Beijing, Blood in Odesa – Putin’s Victory Tour While Ukraine Burns
Vladimir Putin steps off his plane in Tianjin as if he were the sovereign ruler of a peaceful great power - while the sirens wail again in Ukraine. “On the night of August 31, Russia used drones to strike four energy facilities in the Odesa region ...
Another Small Victory – Court Stops Deportation of Guatemalan Children
It is a ruling of great significance, even if it applies only for two weeks for now. Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., has temporarily stopped the Trump administration ...
Kaizen to Listen To – Against the Silence of the World
From now on you can also have all our Kaizen articles read aloud to you. With one click on the play button, our investigations become voices that accompany you - whether on the go, while exercising, ...
The Measurement of American Mortality: How Partisan Politics Decides Over Years of Life
Our months-long research and data collection ultimately revealed a crystal-clear picture: the health gap between Democratic and Republican governed states is not a statistical anomaly - it is the result of deliberate political decisions that can be measured in human lives.
Stone Age Drama - Trump Freaks Out Over Scratch in the Rose Garden
Donald Trump has struck again - this time not on the campaign trail but with the full force of his outrage aimed at a freshly laid stone slab. The 79-year-old president discovered a "huge gash" in the limestone of the White House ...
The Silent Death of Hope: When America Abandons Its Smallest Fighters
In a sterile conference room at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Dr. Ira Dunkel sits on a Tuesday morning in August, staring at his screen. The email he has just read contains only a few lines, ...
Proof of Life - Trump Reappears After Days of Silence
For four days there was eerie silence. No appearance, barely any tweets, no golf tournament, no spontaneous press event - for a man like Donald Trump, who loves public appearances like others love ...
Tribute Out of Fear - How Europe Is Now the Big Loser in the Tariff Dispute
It was an image that is likely to go down in history: Donald Trump at his golf club in Turnberry, the sun at his back, Ursula von der Leyen opposite him, smiling politely as the cameras clicked.
The Tariff Apocalypse: How Trump Is Dragging the Global Economy into the Abyss
It is Friday afternoon, August 30, 2025. Traders on Wall Street are staring at their screens as the news flashes across the tickers: The U.S. Court of Appeals ...
The Faces of America – Prayer in the Oval Office and a Values Map Pointing Toward Authoritarianism
There are images that could hardly be more symbolic. Donald Trump sits at the desk of the Oval Office, eyes closed, head bowed. Around him stand his loyalists, laying ...
The Crusade Against the Wind – How Trump is Sabotaging America’s Energy Transition
It is 679 million dollars that could cost America its future. On Friday the U.S. Department of Transportation announced that it was cutting an entire package of federal funds – money intended for the ...
Summer 1987 – Trump’s First Trip to Russia with Ivana and the Beginning of an Obsession
In the summer of 1987, Donald Trump embarked on a conspicuous trip to the Soviet Union with his then-wife Ivana – embedded in a European tour that first took him to Paris and then on ...
The Dismantling of Democracy: How Trump is Turning America into a State of Revenge
The principle of loyalty replaces the principle of merit - and the world watches as the oldest democracy of the modern era tears itself apart. The American Republic does not die ...
Doner-Söder and the Deportation of Care
Markus Söder loves to appear in costumes. Sometimes as a nutcracker, sometimes as Superman, sometimes as "Doner-Söder," posing between meat skewers and food trucks as if he were an influencer of the fast-food industry ...
The Mustang Republic – How ICE Burns Taxpayer Money on Trump’s Showcars
There are documents, as our research shows, that come in dry bureaucratic language and yet capture an entire era in a nutshell. The “Justification & Approval” of the Department of Homeland ...