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 ...
Operation Shockwave - Trump’s Major Overhaul at ICE
Washington is once again on the brink of an earthquake - this time not in the White House, but in the gray corridors of the agency that Donald Trump has turned more than any other into his personal instrument ...
A Country Without a Compass - The United States Plans to Deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia
With every new court document, the Department of Homeland Security loses more and more moral footing. Yesterday afternoon brought the next document from a government that seeks to turn wrongdoing into righteousness ...
The Art of Giving - and Taking: Trump’s New Morality of Donations – An Investigative Report
Few scenes capture the moral imbalance of this administration as clearly as the headlines of this week: The Pentagon accepts a private "donation" of 130 million dollars to pay ...
Lakeview, Chicago - Where the Smoke Came with the Terror in Uniform
On a mild autumn afternoon, the smell of tear gas still hangs in the air. Between the Victorian houses of Lakeview, where children usually zip by on scooters and gardeners rake leaves, ...
America’s Shadow off the Coast - The Aircraft Carrier That Finally Threatens Latin America’s Calm
The news came quietly, almost bureaucratically - a Pentagon statement in a neutral tone: The United States is sending the USS Gerald R. Ford, the largest warship in the world, to the waters off ...
The Laughter Over the Rubble - When Western Satire Loses Its Own Soul
It begins with a sentence that sounds like it comes from a foreign civilization: "Russia destroys strategically important kindergarten in Kharkiv." The text - an alleged satire by the German magazine Der Postillon ...
The Third Term - Steve Bannon’s Dangerous Game with American Democracy
Steve Bannon has once again ignited a fire that was long considered extinguished. In an interview, he said with the composure of a man who loves chaos: “Trump is gonna get a third term ...
How Trump Reinvents the Sanctions Game, Putin Turns It into a Performance, and China Cites International Law
For months, Donald Trump’s relationship with Vladimir Putin had been a performance of bluster and hesitation, of loud announcements and quiet retreats. But on this Wednesday, the posturing ended. The President ...
America’s Holiest Vote - The Dead Mother, the Trump Ballot, and the Gospel of Stupidity
There are stories that describe the soul of a nation more precisely than any textbook. This one begins in a small wooden house in Nashwauk, Minnesota, between pines, frost, and Fox News. Danielle Christine ...
"He Just Wants to Dance" – Trump's 300 Million Dollar Ballroom and the Architecture of Megalomania
Washington has seen a lot under Trump: burning documents, falling stars, the invention of stolen elections, bizarre things. Why? "The president wants to dance." But what unfolded today on the grounds of ...
Trump Now Has Access to California’s National Guard - and Newsom Lost Because He Entered the Wrong Social Media Battle
It was a ruling that struck Sacramento like a thunderclap - and was celebrated in Washington as a return to old power dynamics. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...
When the FBI Knocked at the Door - and a Phone Recorded Everything on Video
Two men, a knock on the door, one sentence: "Your name came up." That is how Trump’s America shows its redefinition of terrorism - and how easily someone today can come into the sight of the state ...
The End of the “Proud Boys” – How a Black Church Took Over the Name of a Hate Movement
Many readers now ask what happened to the Proud Boys – that far-right group that once served as Trump’s street army and played a central role in the storming of the Capitol. The answer is as unexpected ...
"That is a lie. And I cannot put my name on such a document" – The Case of Kilmar García
It is a sentence that echoes through Washington: "That is a lie. And I cannot put my name on such a document." With these words, former government attorney Erez Reuveni said ...
"Like Hitler Did" - Secret Recordings Reveal Controversial Statements at Montana Educators Conference
Audio recordings in our possession (see further down in the article) from an educators conference in Montana reveal how teachers spoke behind closed doors about handling diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs - and drew ...
Internal documents reveal how Trump is inventing terrorism at home - and how boundaries are shifting in Germany
A confidential FBI intelligence report prepared in early October reveals how Donald Trump is redefining the concept of domestic security - as a weapon against his own population. Protest is terrorism ...
Leaked Conversation Shows How Kennedy Jr. Describes Fascism in America - and Why He Understands It Better Than He Would Like To
They are sentences (the recordings are included further down in the article) that sound like a confession in real time. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., once a celebrated environmental lawyer, today a mouthpiece ...
The Staging of Rapprochement - Trump’s Moscow Moment Was Never Real
What yesterday still sounded like a diplomatic revival of the Cold War turns out today to be what it was from the very beginning: another bluff from the White House ...
The Dawn of Ignorance - How Europe Makes a Fool of Itself with Sanctions
It is a decision meant to sound like determination but in truth exposes the complete distance from reality. On October 20, 2025, the energy ministers of the European Union agreed to gradually ...
The Machine of Rage - How Social Networks Make the Far Right Stronger, Even When You Fight Them
It is a pattern you only notice when you pause. When you stop scrolling through the endless stream of images, headlines, quotes, and faces and start to look at it like a choreography ...
The Princess Who Never Was – Virginia Giuffre’s Final Accusation Against Prince Andrew
It is a book that sounds like a last word from beyond the grave – unvarnished, harrowing, almost too direct to still pass as literature. Nobody’s Girl, the posthumously released autobiography of Virginia ...
How Trump Is Turning America’s Cattle Ranchers Against Him – An Investigative and Disturbing Report
There are moments when one wonders whether Donald Trump still knows what he is doing – or whether he has long since become his own contradiction. While his administration calls on farmers, ...
The Judgment on Oregon - and the Silence of the Constitution
A few moments ago, the 9th U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled in the case Trump v. State of Oregon, Case No. 25-17108, that Donald Trump may formally assume command of the Oregon National ...
The Silent Break - Why the Netherlands No Longer Tells the United States Everything
A European warning signal came in the form of a sentence, as cool as it was controlled: "Sometimes we simply no longer tell certain things." No affront, no scandal - just a sober admission ...
Donald Discovers the High-Security Stairlift, or: “The Toy Set for Small Dictators”
There are days when history doesn’t begin with a bang but with a step – more precisely, with thirteen small ones. On Sunday, Donald Trump boarded Air Force One in ...
A Virus That Afflicts the World – Sanae Takaichi, Trump, and the Quiet International of the Far Right
Japan’s political scene stands at a turning point – and at the same time before a mirror in which familiar contours from Washington, Rome, and Budapest are reflected. A governing party loses its majority, a long-standing coalition ...
The President Who Applies Pressure - Trump’s Secret Outburst at Zelensky and the Humiliation of a Press Conference
Behind the doors of the White House, far from cameras and calculated gestures, a scene reportedly unfolded on Friday that left even long-time observers of American foreign policy speechless ...
The Submarine War in the Caribbean - Trump’s New Front and the Carranza Case
A dead fisherman, a raging president, and a continent watching as the old order of the West begins to crumble. In the Caribbean, where America has projected its power ...
Faith, Power and Chains - Joshua Haymes, Pete Hegseth and the Return to Slavery
Joshua Haymes’ words recall the darkness of past centuries. In his latest podcast, the Christian nationalist commentator said that Christians should defend the institution of slavery because the Bible “makes it clear ...
America’s Empty Workplaces - Trump’s War on Immigration and the Warning to Germany
Maria worked for 13 dollars an hour. She cleaned schools in Florida, receiving a check every two weeks for 900 dollars - enough to survive with her eleven-year-old son ...
The Day the Highest Court of Trumpsurdistan Went Bankrupt
It has come to this: The United States of America, inventors of democracy, the Statue of Liberty, and the three-course meal to go, have now achieved what was once reserved only for banana republics ...
The Day America Stood Up and Said “No” to Kings
First came the inflatable frog costumes. Dozens of them, wobbling through Times Square like a rush image of resistance, their oversized green limbs glittering in the October light. They were absurd, deliberately so ...
The Web of Power - Jeffrey Epstein, Leon Black and the Anatomy of a Dependency
It began with a lunch in Manhattan and ended in a system of money, humiliation and moral extortion. Jeffrey Epstein, who had maneuvered his way from ...
The Oath, the Abyss, the Resignation - How a U.S. Marine Colonel After 24 Years Publicly Stands Against Trump
He served his country for almost a quarter of a century. Afghanistan, Iraq, the endless desert drills from Camp Pendleton to Quantico - Doug Krugman was one of those officers who never raised their voice ...
The Limits of War - Trump’s Reluctant No to the Tomahawks for Ukraine
It was a scene of outward politeness and inner tension: Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, side by side in the Cabinet Room of the White House, flanked by Vice President J. D. Vance and Treasury Secretary Scott ...
The State of Emergency in the Mind - How Björn Höcke Turns Doubt into a Political Weapon
A sentence like the ones that appear on Telegram dozens of times - casual, inconspicuous, dangerous. "Or is it merely media theater?" asks Björn Höcke in that strangely measured tone that pretends ...
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 ...
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