Investigative Journalism
What appears to be a technical adjustment in the administration of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is in truth a political breach of the dam. From now on, medical personnel there may refuse treatment ...
The moment America held its breath did not come with a thunderous blow but with a military grip on civilian flesh. No formal state of emergency. No Insurrection Act. No declaration of martial law. And yet: Donald Trump crossed the final line.
It is a Sunday, but not one of peace. Not a quiet day, not a weary end of the week. June 8, 2025 marked one of those moments when a city doesn’t just tremble - it speaks. Loudly. ...
It starts with a crash. Not a loud, not a spectacular one – but a quiet, almost imperceptible glitch in a system that is no longer a technical toy, but a geopolitical echo chamber. When cybersecurity analysts at the firm iVerify began ...
"Due to current events, we have updated the publication date of our May 5 article to today's date. The content remains unchanged." It didn’t begin with a gunshot. It began with a link. A channel. A message in a dark corner of the web. And like a plunge out of civilization into a world of shadow and filth, thousands found themselves drawn in -...
The Shadow of Retreat – How the US Tries to Save Face in the Case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. It begins with a return flight. Not voluntary, not hopeful – but as the result of an institutional breakdown that reaches far beyond the borders of ...
Some laws sound dry and technical, almost like trivial bureaucracy. Yet hidden between sober paragraphs lies, at times, an explosive force capable of shaking the foundations of a democracy. One such law is Trump’s latest project,..
West Virginia prosecutors are now charging women for miscarriages - a dystopian reality - It sounds like a scene from a dystopian novel, yet it has become reality: In West Virginia, women now face criminal prosecution for miscarriages, starting as early as the ninth week of pregnancy...
It was early on a Saturday morning when Ruth Eleonora López was arrested in her home. No summons, no judicial warrant, no timeline – just the vague accusation that she had helped ...
It is just a word. And yet it acts like an explosive device in political language: remigration. Donald Trump uses it as if it were bureaucratic jargon. As if it referred to return assistance, applications, orderly procedures...
An article about fear as a weapon, a fabricated letter, and the propaganda of power It begins with a letter. Light blue ink, an angry message threatening to shoot Donald Trump ...
It does not begin with tanks. Not with uniforms or marching music. It begins with a smile - and a nomination. Paul Ingrassia is the man Donald Trump wants to appoint as head ...
It begins with a court ruling, soberly worded, directed at a public long accustomed to the unimaginable. And yet, May 30, 2025, will go down in history – as the day the Supreme Court ...
An article about the four-year-old girl Trump wants to throw out of the United States. There are stories that make even seasoned observers stop in their tracks. Cases so cruel in their banality that you feel like you're watching the wrong movie...
San Diego, May 2025. A concrete block in the desert. The air smells of bleach and fear. Inside sits a woman in a booth so small that pain seems to pool in it. She speaks into ...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from Apaches fighting against a massive copper mining project on federal land in Arizona that they consider sacred. The justices upheld lower court decisions that allow ...
In a country where immigrants are routinely dehumanized by those who misunderstand or ignore the truth, this couldn’t be said briefly. I chose clarity and completeness over ...
The world had grown used to the spectacle: Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed peacemaker, promising a swift resolution to the war in Ukraine – a firm handshake here, a tough deal there. Even during the campaign, ...
There are images that scream – and there are images that whisper. The drawing by 13-year-old Anja Rozen from Slovenia does not merely whisper – it breathes, connects, carries...
It begins with a handshake. Two women smile into the camera - as if nothing had happened. Mette Frederiksen in sky blue, Giorgia Meloni in the beige of innocence. But what this photo documents is no diplomatic courtesy visit...
It begins like a déjà vu from times when the separation of powers still meant something: J.D. Vance, Vice President of the United States, publicly offers advice to the Chief Justice of the country, John Roberts, in an interview with the ...
Jeanette Vizguerra’s Arrest and the Quiet Coup Against Human Rights. It began with a sentence, spoken by an ICE agent outside a Target store near Denver: “We finally got you.” ...
The End of Freedom Begins with a Misunderstanding – Kristi Noem, Donald Trump, and the Abuse of Habeas Corpus. It is one of those sentences that make you choke on your laughter: "Habeas Corpus is a constitutional right that allows ...
Russia is once again witnessing a grotesque witch-hunt - this time against publishing houses that dared depict reality in a form the Putin regime finds intolerable. The events currently unfolding in ...
The Kremlin’s War on Truth. It is a shot straight to the heart of human rights. Russia has designated Amnesty International, one of the world’s most renowned human rights organizations, as an "undesirable organization." A simple administrative act, ..
How the Trump Administration Built Its Deportation Policy on a Web of Errors and Deception. It is a story of deception, lies, ruthless bureaucracy ...
How Trump and Europe’s Cowardice Strangle International Law. There are stories that look like nothing. News that stares at us like a statue in the market, expressionless, lifeless. And then there are those stories that scream
It was a day like any other. An airport, people boarding a plane that rose into the sky. But this was no ordinary flight. It was a deportation flight, organized by Avelo Airlines, ...
Fear, Deportation, and the Shadows of Trump It begins with a police light, a flash in the rearview mirror, a moment of terror that wraps around the heart like a cold hand. On the streets of Tennessee, ...
Willkommen beim Innocence Project des Kaizen Blogs! Wir setzen uns für die Aufdeckung und Korrektur ungerechtfertigter Verurteilungen und rechtswidriger Abschiebungen ein. Unser Team aus investigativen Journalist:innen und ehrenamtlichen Anwält:innen (Pro…
It begins with numbers. Millions of fentanyl pills seized in one of the largest crackdowns on drug trafficking in United States history. Sixteen arrests, sixteen faces, sixteen stories ...
Why Germany Should Never Entrust Its Citizens' Data to an Enemy of Democracy. The Bundesrat's decision on March 22, 2025, may read like a routine administrative act: Police forces across ...
Boise, Idaho. A town that could’ve been plucked from a brochure selling the past - old-fashioned, sunlit, indulgent. Everyone knows each other, everyone smiles, everyone drinks the same cheap beer in the same smoky clubs where the future still sounds like ‘90s drum’n’bass.
"From an edge of America that no longer recognizes itself – and sent a cold shiver down our spines." It doesn’t begin with a bang. Not with marching bands or television images ...
"From a nation slowly forgetting itself". Once upon a time, in the heart of the United States, six Republican men, dressed in pressed jackets and wearing antiquated smiles, ...
It was a cold, judicial blow against an administration that, in recent months, had weaponized every law, every principle, and every trace of humanity under the guise of national security. But on Wednesday, the Court of Appeals for the District ...
Massacres, Rape, Burned Bodies – and the World Looks Away. More than 70 bodies – women, children, elderly people – were discovered in a church.
While authoritarian regimes, far-right governments, and dictatorial rulers terrorize people day after day, there is a group of individuals who tirelessly do what should be a matter of course: ...
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