The ICE Pastor
The conflict surrounding the fatal shooting of the 37-year-old Renee Good has now reached a church space as well. In St. Paul, activists interrupted a Sunday service at Cities Church, ...
A boulevard for the president – and the belief in one’s own infallibility
In Palm Beach County, order has now been definitively established: A stretch of Southern Boulevard now bears the president’s name. Precisely the stretch that runs from the airport directly to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago ...
When Oversight Is Denied: Resignations at the US Justice Department After a Deadly ICE Shooting
One of the most serious internal upheavals in months has shaken the US Justice Department. Following further reporting, at least four senior attorneys from the Criminal Section within the Civil Rights Division have resigned ...
Holy Family Inc. – How the Heritage Manifesto Beams the 21st Century Back Into the 19th
Welcome to America, where Sunday is about to become holier than the Constitution, Tinder is treated as a security risk, and the state is no longer neutral but an official relationship therapist. The Heritage Foundation ...
“I am a prisoner of war” – Maduro before a US court, wife appears severely injured, Caracas in turmoil, the world order under pressure
Under massive security, Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were brought on Monday to the federal courthouse in Lower Manhattan. Two days after their arrest during a US commando operation in Caracas, ...
Below the Waterline of Truth – How the Ursa Major Disappeared with Nuclear VM-4SG Reactor Housings
The trail was not the explosion, but an inconsistency. A Russian cargo vessel, traveling on a route that defied every principle of maritime logic, declared a harmless cargo – empty containers, harbor cranes, equipment ...
A Part of the World Pulls the Emergency Brake - How Trump’s New Entry Ban Triggers a Chain Reaction
Donald Trump has once again expanded the circle of those excluded - and this time it does not stop at symbolic toughness at home. With the decision of December 16 to extend the existing entry ban...
The Letter That Remained …
It is a remainder. Something that stayed behind because there was no one left to pass it on. Jeffrey Epstein wrote it from detention. That is documented. Manhattan Correctional Center. Pretrial detention. A few days before his death ...
Trump Renames the Kennedy Center After Himself
The decision has been made. The most important cultural institution in the United States will now also carry the name of the sitting president. The supervisory board personally appointed by Donald Trump has decided to rename the John ...
The Bitter Truth Behind Trump's "War on Drugs"
In an unremarkable neighborhood just beyond the U.S.-Mexican border, a deadly business is thriving. Here, in one of the countless cartel safe houses, the next shipment of fentanyl for American streets is being prepared...
Parts of California under military administration – The United States is governed by a madman and many are not much better
Donald Trump continues to militarize the southern border of the United States, and this time it affects California. The Interior Department has announced that it will transfer jurisdiction over large parts of the border region to the U.S. Navy ...
When Children Become a “Resource” – “Only the Weak Will Fail”
Hegseth said a sentence without hesitation: parents should entrust the military with “their most precious resource – their sons and daughters.” At exactly this point it becomes clear how far American politics has drifted from what ...
When Children’s Characters Push Back – and a Pop Musician Draws a Line for the Government
The Trump administration has instrumentalized many things in recent months, but this time it took on two worlds that normally exist far from political noise: pop culture and ...
"International law? Not your business" - Rubio dismisses Europe while the United States creates deadly facts in Venezuela
Marco Rubio made clear in just a few sentences how the United States under Trump now thinks about Europe. The secretary of state said that the EU had no right to define what international law ...
Jeffrey Sachs: “Trump has the mind of a four year old” - and the world has had enough of his king fantasies
Jeffrey Sachs has rarely pulled punches in politics, but his latest assessment of Donald Trump is unusually blunt even by his standards. Asked why Trump is not attending the G20 summit, ...
“And whoever refuses then will have to explain why they protected alleged offenders” – A President in Decline
Donald Trump has long relied on the belief that no one could politically harm him. A president who presents himself as invulnerable, who displays his ...
The 2,000-Dollar Lie – and a President who once again plays for time
Our research quickly revealed what the White House is hiding: behind Trump’s loudly announced 2,000-dollar “dividend checks” there is no financing, no concept, no law – nothing but a claim that sounds powerful ...
The Price of Agreement - How Five Votes in the Senate Ended America’s Longest Shutdown
It was a late Sunday evening when the board in the Capitol lit up: 60 to 40 votes - the threshold had been crossed. After 41 days of paralyzing deadlock, the Senate had decided to reopen the government ...
The Pardon of the Companions - Trump's Dangerous Game with History
Washington - It was an act of breathtaking symbolism and political audacity at the same time: Donald Trump has, on the night before Monday, pardoned those men and women who, five ...
Bad Judges, Bad Friends - The Supreme Court Slows Hunger Aid as Orbán Is Courted in Washington
Washington – The events are unfolding rapidly today, and it has become a bitter day for millions of Americans who rely on food assistance. The Supreme Court of the United States ruled on Friday evening, in an emergency ...
The Guilty Without Names - How Republicans Explain Their Defeats Without Looking at the Man in the Mirror
Washington - It was a day of speechlessness, a day of excuses and evasions. Hardly were the votes in Virginia and New Jersey counted when the feverish search for culprits began within the Republican Party ...
The Second Woman – Mikie Sherrill Also Makes History in New Jersey
Montclair – On a night that carries political significance far beyond the borders of New Jersey, Democrat Mikie Sherrill decisively defeated Republican Jack Ciattarelli ...
This was no costume - The businessman who appeared as Hitler
The man who appeared in a Des Moines bar dressed as Hitler and posed with laughing guests was no stranger. His name is Donnie Gardner, he lives in Johnston, Iowa, and runs ...
Candy, Power and Delusion – when the president shows his wounds to children. We have seen this before...
Washington – On the South Lawn of the White House, children stood in colorful costumes, between pumpkins and music, as the president of the United States stepped onto the stage ...
Between Oath and Conscience - Soldiers Against the President
Chicago - In a country that loves to celebrate its soldiers as heroes, dissent is an act of courage. Two former members of the Illinois National Guard have now crossed that line ...
Republicans Refuse - Trump's Power Play in the Midwest Faces Defeat
In Washington, it has long been the norm for Republican majorities to bend to the will of the president. But in Indiana and Kansas, two states in the heart of the Midwest, Donald Trump ...
Lakeview, Chicago - Where the Smoke Came with the Terror in Uniform
On a mild autumn afternoon, the smell of tear gas still hangs in the air. Between the Victorian houses of Lakeview, where children usually zip by on scooters and gardeners rake leaves, ...
Internal documents reveal how Trump is inventing terrorism at home - and how boundaries are shifting in Germany
A confidential FBI intelligence report prepared in early October reveals how Donald Trump is redefining the concept of domestic security - as a weapon against his own population. Protest is terrorism ...
The Web of Power - Jeffrey Epstein, Leon Black and the Anatomy of a Dependency
It began with a lunch in Manhattan and ended in a system of money, humiliation and moral extortion. Jeffrey Epstein, who had maneuvered his way from ...
When Government Becomes a Siege - Judge Halts Mass Layoffs
In the pale light of a San Francisco courtroom, between stacks of paper and flickering fluorescent tubes, Judge Susan Illston spoke a sentence that sounded like an echo from another political time ...
The Doctor and the Disaster - How Dr. Phil Tried to Defeat Wokeness and Failed Against Reality
Once upon a time there was a man who believed he could heal the American soul. Dr. Phil McGraw, the television psychologist with the fatherly frown and the warm Texan accent, who had ...
The Paycheck That Never Comes - What Happens When a Country Stops Paying Its Soldiers
Over Montgomery, Alabama, there hangs a strange heaviness these days. It is not the weather - it is the waiting. In a small house not far from Maxwell ...
Trump’s Call to Jail the Governor of Illinois and the Mayor of Chicago
Donald Trump has finally turned the office of the president into a political court of punishment. On Wednesday, he publicly called for the imprisonment of two elected officials – the Democratic governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, ...
State of Siege - Illinois Sues to Stop Trump’s Deployment of Troops in Chicago
Chicago, Broadview, Springfield – on this Monday, the legal front line stretched across the Midwest. Hardly had a federal court in Oregon prohibited the deployment of National Guardsmen to Portland ...
After the Storm - South Shore and the Traces of an ICE Raid
What remains when a building is stormed in the middle of the night by hundreds of heavily armed federal agents? In Chicago’s South Shore the answer shows itself in shards, smashed doors, blood stains on the floor ...
US veterans react with outrage and anger to Hegseth’s words
The hall in Quantico was full, the stands tightly packed with generals and admirals, flag officers who have spent decades in service. One would have expected facts, strategies ...
Hollywood Under Tariffs - Trump’s War Against the Cinema of the World
Donald Trump has once again put an idea into the world that can hardly be surpassed in absurdity. In an angry post on his platform Truth Social, he declared that the movie business had been “stolen from Hollywood
The Purge - How Trump's FBI fires kneeling agents and rebuilds a federal agency
It is an image that carried symbolic power for many in the summer of 2020: FBI agents in plain clothes kneeling during a demonstration in Washington - a quiet signal, an attempt to de-escalate amid ...
A Leaked DHS Document Exposes the Lie - While Trump Evokes “Left-Wing Extremists,” His Own Agencies Warn of Right-Wing and Islamist Violence
It is a document that was never meant to reach the public. Classified as “For Official Use Only” and “Law Enforcement Use Only,” it carries the sober title “Terrorism – Potential for Violence ...
The Power of the Moment
An investigation, a video, a frozen moment, a misleading gesture - and already a storm ignites in social media that can no longer be contained. This is what happened at St. Thomas Aquinas ...
Every Credential a Vow of Silence - How the Pentagon Puts the Press in Shackles and Why Leaks of All Things Save the Public
With a 17-page paper to the capital press, the Pentagon is tightening the reins: anyone who still wants to report on the Department of Defense must now take a pledge - namely, not to gather or use any information ...
Provo: First Hearing in the Case of Tyler Robinson – Indictment for Aggravated Murder – The Evidence Is Overwhelming
It was a sober setting for an event that has long exceeded the borders of Utah in its significance: In the Fourth District Court of Provo, Utah County, the first hearing ...
A Shot in Plain Sight - The Assassination of Charlie Kirk and the Wounds of America’s Present
The news of Tyler Robinson’s alleged confession on Discord has shaken the United States. The 22-year-old, suspected of having shot right-wing activist Charlie Kirk at an event ...
How the FBI Director Delayed the Arrest of Kirk’s Alleged Killer for Trump - Keystone Kash and the Staging of Power
It was a moment straight out of a screenplay: Donald Trump was sitting on the couch of "Fox & Friends" on Friday morning when he was allowed to announce the news meant ...
The Shots of Orem - Verified Video of the Perpetrator and Wanted Photos - FBI Continues to Search for Charlie Kirk’s Killer
The FBI has just released images of a “person of interest” sought in connection with the murder of Charlie Kirk. The 31-year-old founder of Turning Point ...
France Blocks - Macron Under Pressure
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 ...
A Boomerang from Palm Beach - JD Vance Is Also Reeling
JD Vance apparently wanted to prevent it with all his might - and achieved the opposite. The Republican vice president, usually a master of sharp rhetoric, resorted on Monday to ...
The Baron of Whitehouse
The sirens are wailing. Not those of the fire department - those of Wall Street. 22,000 jobs in August. For America, this is a total loss. While Trump is still raving about an economic miracle, the ground beneath him is ...
The Shadow Justice - How America’s Highest Court Becomes a Political Instrument and Judges Attack the Supreme Court
The rift runs straight through the American judiciary. It is September 2025, and what is happening in the marble halls of the federal courts has never happened before: ...
Cocaine, War and Stagecraft - What Trump's Caribbean Strike on "Venezuela's Drug Boats" Is Really About
The images are made for the news primetime: a grainy video from a bird's-eye view, a boat in the southern Caribbean Sea, then an explosion. President Trump announces that on his orders US forces sank ...