Investigative Journalism
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" ...
Es ist drei Uhr morgens am 17. August 2025 im Eisenhower Executive Office Building, und während Washington in trügerischer Ruhe verharrt, scrollt Laura Elizabeth Loomer durch ihre Screenshot-Sammlung – ein…
It was supposed to be another PR coup for Kristi Noem, but in the end it stands as a document of state disgrace. The Secretary of Homeland Security, long mocked by critics as “ICE Barbie,” once again ...
It is an event that shakes the backbone of Western press freedom. Karen Attiah, the last Black full-time columnist at the Washington Post, was fired - not for false reporting, not for hate speech, ...
The United States stands at a dangerous tipping point after the assassination of Charlie Kirk. What was still a moment of shock just a few days ago has long since become a political signal: parts ...
For years, Charlie Kirk and the milieus of the extreme right were adversaries. For neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and militias like the Proud Boys or the Oath Keepers, Kirk was not an ally but an obstacle ...
Donald Trump has found a new target for his domestic security agenda. After the president already sent the National Guard to Los Angeles and Washington, he announced on Friday ...
Three high-ranking FBI officials have filed a lawsuit that casts a harsh light on how the Trump administration dealt with the federal police. They speak of a “campaign of retribution” carried out by FBI Director Kash Patel, ...
As we already revealed in our research in June and July 2025, the prisoner deal between Washington, Bukele and Maduro was a political and moral scandal. In our article ...
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: ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The American president has never made a secret of his contempt for the energy transition. Now Donald Trump is carrying his fossil campaign into the world with brute force – ...
In Washington, armed National Guard soldiers patrol, heavily equipped, as one knows from crisis regions. Yet amid the machine guns and combat boots, a scene is revealed that could hardly ...
There are moments when the mask falls and the grimace behind it becomes visible. Moments when even the most skillful PR machinery can no longer conceal what has long been obvious: ...
These are sentences that sound like they come straight from the script of an authoritarian nightmare. Donald Trump, baseball cap pulled low over his face, conjures in a speech the images of Chicago and New York ...
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