Investigative Journalism
It will be early on June 20, International Refugee Day. Long before California’s light rises over the federal courthouses in San Diego, priests, deacons, and faith leaders will gather – silent, praying, present. Their mission is neither legal ...
They are not traveling under cover of night, but with announcement. Neo‑Nazis, enemies of the constitution, political relics who portray themselves as the spearhead of a “homeland reconquest” ...
It is a moment that seems almost too absurd to be real: The United States House of Representatives is not debating war or peace, not inflation or education, but Elmo. About Big Bird, known in Germany as Bibo, the yellow bird from ...
Dearborn, Michigan – a city where nearly every second person has Arab roots. As recently as November 2024, it was seen as a symbol of cautious rapprochement: Donald Trump, campaigning in a local café, ...
It begins with a bulldozer – and ends with a monument to his own overconfidence. In Washington, where roses once bloomed and First Ladies made history, Donald Trump is tearing up the ground...
A political chamber play in five acts - written not in ink, but in steel. There are days when you no longer wonder who is actually governing - but rather who is playing with whom. Not with power, but with vanity...
There are corners of the world where the miraculous happens in dust. Not in the glitter of the opera, not in the noise of parliaments, but where a child with wide eyes touches ...
Greifswald, the historic university town on the Baltic Sea, is politically upside down. Since the municipal elections of 2024, the city council has been in a state that resembles a political experiment –albeit one without a plan ...
Boston, May 2025 – It was an image that lingered: Above a busy bridge in Boston, a banner fluttered in the wind. The words: “TINY HANDS – GIANT BRIBES”, flanked ...
Once upon a time – that’s how fairy tales begin. And sometimes, it’s how debates begin, too – about works of art we’ve long since crowned as classics. But what happens when these works are viewed through the lens of a new era? ...
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 ...
by Peter J. Fotopoulos . On May 3, 1945, five days before the end of World War II in Europe, my uncle, 21-year-old 1st Lt. John R. Traige, the son of Macedonian immigrants Pantelis ...
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...
... is not just a political shift. It’s not merely a pendulum swing between parties or a difference of economic opinion. What we are witnessing is the accelerated dismantling of the very scaffolding that supports human dignity and social cohesion...
Donald Trump didn’t hijack America. He is America – or at least, what America has become. The gilded slogans, the cruelty paraded as strength, the tax bills wrapped in patriotic lies, the spectacle that replaces policy, ...
Why We Reject Smart Women and Elect Incoherent Men. It is a sentence that lingers like a painful truth: “I’ve seen two viable female candidates run for president in the last decade ...
A 98 year old World War 2 veteran, returned to his tank to destroy one last Nazi car. He has a message for Elon Musk, Tesla, Putin, Trump and the international regressive movement.
Everyday Racism, Unfortunately Even in Germany... It's a Sunday like any other. I get on the bus to visit my father. At the stop where I get on, there is a driver change, ...
It hit me like a warm summer rain in this time so often marked by frightening images and news. It is a picture. Just a picture. A snapshot.
“The heart is a poor instrument.” Not because it feels nothing – but because it hopes too much. It doesn’t beat, it errs. In Andalusia, where the evening sun sinks like a final ...
A memory from Fechenheim. I remember a horse. A white, quiet creature with the gait of an old soul, walking through the streets of Frankfurt-Fechenheim day after day ...
In the vast expanses of Iran's Fars Province, where the landscape is shaped by rocks, dry earth, and sparse vegetation, there exists a natural wonder that inspires awe – the Green Pearl of Arsanjan in the Fars Province of Iran.
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