Investigative Journalism
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The world is reeling. In the United States, Donald Trump is once again sending tanks against protesters and calling it “domestic security.” In Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is bombing every corner he ...
The government calls it reform, but in truth it is a change of system. With the abolition of citizen’s income and the introduction of a so-called new basic security, a chapter begins that ...
When Alice Weidel writes, she doesn’t inform – she infects. Her recent claim that “everything you send via messenger, to friends or your partner, will be read by the EU” is not a misunderstanding.
As Russia sinks into war, the state budget runs deep red figures, and drones from Ukraine reach the Black Sea coast itself, a world of luxury grows in the shadow of Vladimir Putin's palace in Gelendzhik ...
The Federal Republic is reeling. Not suddenly, not unexpectedly, but with the creeping certainty of a train that has long since passed the switch. What plays out in the social media feeds of right-wing politicians is more than political banter ...
There are affairs that disappear after a few days, and there are events that shift the foundation of a democracy. 250,000 euros of taxpayer money for a think tank ...
We took a look into the future of MAGA this weekend - and it no longer bears the name Donald Trump. What was revealed at the memorial service for Charlie Kirk ...
There are politicians who stumble over their own words. Alice Weidel, on the other hand, builds entire speeches out of stumbles and sells them as reality. Her latest fairy tale: In the US and the Netherlands Antifa is banned, ...
The night of September 6 to 7 over Kyiv began with a distant hum, barely louder than a swarm of mosquitoes on a summer evening. But the people of the Ukrainian capital ...
China and Russia are moving in a dangerous lockstep that goes far beyond the mere exchange of goods. Documents that have come to light from Russian authorities and through hacker leaks paint a picture of close military cooperation that at its core aims to equip Beijing ...
It is September 11, 2025, and Germany is experiencing a moment that could not be more painful in its hypocrisy. The Junge Union mourns Charlie Kirk with a black-and-white Facebook post, a man ...
Ulf Poschardt wants to create a martyr. "Charlie Kirk was shot," he wrote in a dramatic Facebook post, "the footage on X shows him collapsing as he does what ...
Paris held its breath this Wednesday. Exactly at the moment when President Emmanuel Macron was swearing in his new prime minister Sébastien Lecornu, protest erupted in the streets ...
The morning sun of September 9, 2025, rose over Kathmandu, but instead of the usual golden light that makes the snow-covered peaks of the Himalayas glow, a biting smoke hung over the ...
Sometimes the transformation of a society first becomes visible in its schools - that was one of the central findings of our investigation. It is a moment that lingers: In Russia, the Prosecutor General ...
Beijing, September 3, 2025. The sun rose over Tiananmen Square and illuminated a scene of surreal symbolism: three men whose regimes are responsible for the systematic oppression of millions shook hands ...
It was a night that shone as brightly in Chongqing as rarely before - not because of the neon facades of the megacity, but because of a single projector. At 10 p.m., a few days before ...
It is a bitter arithmetic of this war: the more fiercely Moscow targets the Ukrainian hinterland with drones and missiles, the more united Ukraine's home front becomes - and the more visibly the edges of the Russian system fray.
For the first time in history they will stand together on one stage: Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. The North Korean ruler arrived in Beijing on Tuesday ...
Germany is at a tipping point. The news of the last few weeks is clear: almost 115,000 industrial jobs have disappeared within a year, more than 50,000 of them in the automotive sector alone, ...
Vladimir Putin steps off his plane in Tianjin as if he were the sovereign ruler of a peaceful great power - while the sirens wail again in Ukraine. “On the night of August 31, Russia used drones to strike four energy facilities in the Odesa region ...
From now on you can also have all our Kaizen articles read aloud to you. With one click on the play button, our investigations become voices that accompany you - whether on the go, while exercising, ...
There are images that could hardly be more symbolic. Donald Trump sits at the desk of the Oval Office, eyes closed, head bowed. Around him stand his loyalists, laying ...
Markus Söder loves to appear in costumes. Sometimes as a nutcracker, sometimes as Superman, sometimes as "Doner-Söder," posing between meat skewers and food trucks as if he were an influencer of the fast-food industry ...
The shadows of drones glide silently over the snow-covered fields of Thuringia. Invisible to the naked eye but present on the radar screens of German military bases, they circle above those routes where American ...
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