Investigative Journalism
Donald Trump unveiled his latest creation in Davos: a “Board of Peace,” a peace council that, according to him, is meant to one day render the United Nations obsolete. Thirty five countries have already signed, sixty have been invited ...
This year, Davos is not a place of self-affirmation, but a seismograph. When Donald Trump finally set course for the World Economic Forum on Wednesday after a technical malfunction aboard Air Force One, it was already clear that ...
Nervousness is growing in Washington. Not because new information has emerged, but because the president is stubbornly clinging to an idea that many in both parties consider ...
Minneapolis is under a strain that goes far beyond protest. In a city that for days has been shaped by tear gas, heavily armed federal forces, and nighttime confrontations, President Donald Trump has openly threatened to invoke the ...
They ram the door. They go in. And they present a piece of paper that looks like law, but is not. The ICE operation in the south of Minneapolis has made visible what many have long feared ...
Multiple recordings from private security cameras and from different angles now draw a clear, internally consistent picture of the events in Minneapolis. They show that Renee Nicole Good did not attempt to run over an officer ...
The US government has quietly retreated from a central allegation with which it politically and legally prepared the seizure of Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro. In a revised indictment, the Department of Justice has abandoned ...
Shortly after two o’clock in the morning, Caracas was jolted awake. At least seven explosions shook the Venezuelan capital, accompanied by low-flying aircraft whose roar cut through several neighborhoods ...
The return came without warning. In mid-December, Gregory Bovino reappeared in the Chicago area, accompanied by several hundred federal agents – and a film crew. The same hard methods that had already ...
HALLELUJAH, says the new program, and it sounds like a fitness subscription for the conscience. The president is promoting the idea that Americans should pray for one hour each week. Not mandatory, of course - just as “voluntary” as a smile ...
Washington builds a wall, Trump likes doing that, and calls it principle. From one day to the next, several European actors are deemed unwelcome. The accusation: “censorship.” What is meant is the European practice ...
The U.S. Department of Justice has begun releasing files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case – while at the same time acknowledging that this release is incomplete. In a letter to Congress, the department confirmed ...
Three short whistles. A knock on the wall. A handwritten note on a lamppost, unsigned, gone again after two hours. In Minneapolis, Chicago, and many other American cities, ...
The images speak for themselves. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Police Chief Brian O’Hara say nothing as a screen shows federal agents pressing a young man against a metal door, putting him in a chokehold ...
Whoever walked through the Palermo parks on this hot December day heard the event long before seeing it. A many voiced barking, an uproar of joy, excitement and pure energy ...
The survey does not come from a left wing campaign office but from the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank usually far more sympathetic to the Republican world. That is exactly what makes the numbers so explosive ...
Alice Weidel suggests that one should "send back" Ukrainians of military age before Germany even talks about its own soldiers. A sentence delivered with such thoughtlessness, as if she were talking about shipments that were misdelivered ...
Donald Trump stood in the corridor of Air Force One, on the return flight from Florida, when reporters again asked him about the MRI from October. He immediately announced ...
Washington was full of people on Wednesday afternoon preparing for the long Thanksgiving weekend when suddenly sirens tore through the streets, ambulances drove across stopped lanes, and a police helicopter ...
Donald Trump smiles into the cameras, two turkeys at his side, but hardly anyone is impressed by it anymore. While Waddle and Gobble are carried through the hotel, graphics run across ...
The United States has created a system over the past two decades that hardly anyone consciously notices, yet reaches deep into everyday life: a network of cameras, hidden devices, data ...
The MAGA world is on fire - open, visible, unmistakable. In the place where absolute allegiance ruled for years, loyalty is now breaking apart like a rotting orange tree. Trump is losing control over the people who once ...
The scene speaks for itself: A sitting U.S. president who discusses security agreements, nuclear technology and regional power questions in Riyadh, while at the same time opening doors that lead directly into private business floors ...
There is something touching about the way Donald Trump proves year after year that no one floods the United States with foreign workers more consistently than he does himself – only in ...
Cicero, Illinois – The morning began like any ordinary day. Rafael Veraza, 33, was on his way with his wife and their one-year-old daughter to Sam’s Club, a wholesale store west ...
Sometimes the state of a government reveals itself not in its laws but in the side remarks of its leading figures. JD Vance, Vice President of the United States, on a stage in Mississippi, ...
It was a scene (see video) that will likely burn itself into the nation’s memory. During a new announcement in the Oval Office, a man in the background collapsed. No sound ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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” ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A president who wants to fire rockets over California. A vice president who defends chat messages about Hitler, and chats that call rape epic. America, a country that has long since lost its compass.
It began unremarkably, almost like a footnote. Yet what happened on Wednesday in Washington was a quiet tremor. Dozens of reporters turned in their access badges and left the Pentagon ...
In the corridors of the Pentagon, one sound echoes above all others these days: the echo of its own fear. Where journalists once reported at every step on military strategies, foreign missions, ...
It was cold, it was pouring rain, and yet none of the roughly one thousand people on Portland’s Burnside Bridge seemed to feel it that gray Sunday afternoon. Their bodies were painted ...
There are nights when history takes a grotesque turn - and in this case, it takes the shape of frogs. While Washington argues about "uprisings" and "national security," ...
It was a morning like any other in the White House - if you ignore the fact that the President of the United States nearly fell asleep during a two-hour press conference, insulted the press, ...
What is unfolding these days in the United States is more than a political conflict - it is an open stress test for American democracy. Donald Trump has ...
On Saturday morning, an unremarkable intersection in southwest Chicago turned into a reflection of American power politics. Against the backdrop of escalating immigration raids, a federal officer shot a female driver who ...
Apple and Google have sent a clear signal this week - and in doing so banned far more than just an app from their stores. Both companies blocked applications that allowed ...
It is the second day of the government shutdown in Washington, and Donald Trump is staging it like an instrument of power. Where previous presidents in such moments tried to keep the damage to public administration ...
It is once again one of those nights in Washington in which democracy threatens to break under its own paralysis. Hours before the deadline the US government is facing a partial shutdown ...
It was only a post on Truth Social, nine minutes old, but the content breaks every boundary of political normality. Donald Trump declared Portland a "war ravaged city," called on his "Secretary of War ...
It is a sentence that will likely go down in the chronicle of political distortions: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Health Secretary of the United States, declared before the UN that an international declaration on combating chronic disease ...
It is a document that one has to read twice to realize that it is not a joke. Under the White House letterhead, an “Autism Action Plan” is presented that resembles a medieval indulgence ...
It sounds like a macabre joke, but it is political bitter seriousness: In Oklahoma a bill is on the table that forces every public university to redesignate a campus area as "Charlie Kirk Memorial Plaza" ...