Investigative Journalism
As if Washington, D.C., were a parade-ready training ground and not the capital of a federal democracy, the White House is shifting the axis of power ever more toward the executive. The latest signal: ...
At first glance, the news seems technocratic: The president wants to make a Heritage Foundation economist, E. J. Antoni, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics - the apparatus that measures the temperature of the American labor market month after month ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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, ...
Sometimes life writes stories that make even the sharpest satirists faint. The new revelation about Prince Andrew and Donald Trump is such a case - a global elite porno, performed on the stage of international scandals, ...
It is an intervention that arrives quietly but is of enormous significance: The Smithsonian has removed the references to Donald Trump’s two impeachments from the exhibit at the National Museum ...
It was a staging that was supposed to seem harmless: Donald Trump presented his new youth sports initiative at the White House, the revival of the legendary Presidential Fitness Test, which since the 1960s had demanded agility, ...
It was Monday, July 29, 2025, when Vice President JD Vance returned to his home state of Ohio to present the controversial tax and immigration reform “One Big Beautiful Bill” at the ...
It is a sunny July day in Vienna, but what is happening in the city center is an affront to every democratic society. Yellow flags, martial slogans, smoke bombs, ...
Anyone walking through the streets of Manzhouli today quickly realizes that this place is more than just a border town. Manzhouli, located in Inner Mongolia in northeastern China,
It’s an unassuming tweet from the Wall Street Journal that condenses the force of American economic policy into a single sentence: “General Motors' profit shrank 35% last quarter ...
It is a case that reaches far beyond the campus of Cambridge: On Monday, the storied Harvard University defended itself before the federal court in Boston against a massive intervention by the U.S. government ...
Veronica Taylor lives in a wooden house on a hill in McDowell County, West Virginia. No doctor for miles, no bus, no taxi, no signal.
It wasn’t a day of giants, but of the many. Not a march with grand speeches, but a beginning in small groups, decentralized, creative, ...
It was a post made for headlines - and as so often with Donald Trump: loud, confident, unverified. On Wednesday, July 16, 2025, the president announced on Truth Social that Coca-Cola ...
It began with a sentence that struck like a punch through his own ranks: "The Epstein files are a made-up Democrat hoax." Donald Trump repeated these words publicly, clearly, definitively. And Laura Loomer ...
Jens Spahn coined a phrase that could be plastered across a billboard for this republic: “We led Germany well through this difficult time.” That was in 2025.
It is a hot, heavy summer in Texas, the ground still steaming from the floodwaters that swept through the land like a biblical plague. Mud covers the streets, the wood of houses rots in the sun ...
Kerrville, Texas – It would have cost less than half a police car or courthouse security. One million dollars - that’s how much a flood warning system would have cost, ...
America was once a place of longing. A country where the roads were endless, the burgers greasy, and the promises grand. Today, it is a place to avoid. While global tourism is recovering in record ...
These are images that burn themselves into the collective memory. A girl, drenched and shivering, clings to the branch of a pine tree.
They call it a historic victory. Fox News is jubilant. MAGA supporters celebrate. Donald Trump stands at the podium and proudly declares that his new “Big Beautiful Bill” will finally relieve the working class.
July 4th is the holiest day in the American calendar. It is the day of the Declaration of Independence, of fanfares and fireworks, of family picnics and barbecues.
Des Moines – It was one of those evenings when Donald Trump elevated not only presidential pomp but also private kitsch to a matter of state. At the “Salute to America” event in Iowa, ...
Washington – On Tuesday, the White House released the full salary list of President Donald Trump’s staff. The document, submitted annually to the U.S. Congress, includes more than 400 individuals working ...
Washington – It is a return to prudishness and a political signal with far-reaching consequences. On Wednesday, the administration under President Donald Trump ...
In March 1933, under pressure from the streets, the German Reichstag passed a law that still makes the world shudder: the so-called Enabling Act. It stripped parliament of its legislative power ...
It is a move that stands out even in the long history of narcissistic state art: Donald Trump had his official portrait at the Colorado State Capitol swiftly replaced - because it did not flatter him enough ...
There is a quiet truth about America’s labor market that is never spoken in campaign ads or stump speeches: The most successful, most profitable companies in the country are having their workforces subsidized by the government - through Medicaid, ...
Pride Month is coming to an end – and perhaps you barely noticed that it had begun. This year has been noticeably quiet: no rainbow-colored logos from major corporations, ...
There is political communication. There is propaganda. And then there is what the White House is publishing these days – a mixture of fast-food aesthetics, authoritarian commands, and post-ironic absurdity
It was an interview straight out of a Machiavellian stage play: two people on the set - Maria Bartiromo, a Fox News veteran known for her sharp rhetoric, and Donald J. Trump, the president of rearview mirrors and distortions ...
Washington, D.C. – A gold-colored television set, in the middle of the National Mall, between Capitol Hill and the White House. It’s no ordinary screen, but an art installation ...
It was a debut both expected - and algorithmically assisted. No sooner had U.S. Vice President JD Vance logged into the delicately coded world of Bluesky on June 18, 2025, than he had done it: ...
Donald J. Trump – Nobel Peace Prize. You really have to let that melt slowly on your tongue. Like a double cheeseburger from Mar-a-Lago, marbled with raw self-aggrandizement and the ketchup of global politics...
Washington - It was a weekend that will be remembered - as an example of a government contradicting itself, and of a president who prefers to destroy rather than unite. While foreign policy balancing acts around Iran ...
Boise, Idaho – June 2025 - Announced with much pathos and grand rhetoric, the self-proclaimed “Hetero Awesome Fest” on June 20 and 21 in Boise turned out to be a prime example of the pitiful attempt to replace ...
Washington – It is a warning signal that cannot be ignored, even amid the constant noise of political messaging: Donald Trump's approval ratings are in free fall ...
Washington - It was a day when the law took a breath. While in the East, the venerable buildings of Harvard gleamed in the early summer light, in the West, heavily armored vehicles rumbled through the streets of Los Angeles ...
On June 19 – the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people in the United States learned of their freedom – the White House remained conspicuously silent. President Donald Trump, who had publicly ...
When the rockets began to fall, our team had already been thinned out. More than half of Radio Farda’s newsroom had been furloughed – not due to a lack of work, but because of political calculation...
While the G7 nations are meeting in Canada to discuss the looming escalation in the Middle East, while diplomats search for the right words and generals debate flight paths, there is one place where the tectonic ...
In the shadow of escalating tensions between the U.S., Iran, and Israel, an internal power struggle is unfolding that could shake the leadership structure of America’s national security agencies. According to White House insiders, President Donald Trump is increasingly losing confidence ...
A federal court in Massachusetts has blocked the Trump administration from restricting gender marker options in U.S. passports. The decision by Judge Julia Kobick prohibits the Department of Homeland Security ...
America used to be a promise. A place that existed not only on the map but also in people's minds and hearts - as a synonym for new beginnings, freedom, limitless possibilities. But the image has cracked...
On Saturday, June 14, Anklam once again became the site of a gathering that sounds harmless at first. “Visit to the North” – that was the code name under which dozens of far-right actors
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