Trump's Approval Ratings Plummet – Even in His Own Strongholds
Washington – It is a warning signal that cannot be ignored, even amid the constant noise of political messaging: Donald Trump's approval ratings are in free fall ...
Between Bookshelves and Barricades - Two Judges Push Back Against the Trump Administration's Arbitrariness
Washington - It was a day when the law took a breath. While in the East, the venerable buildings of Harvard gleamed in the early summer light, in the West, heavily armored vehicles rumbled through the streets of Los Angeles ...
Trump’s Silence on Juneteenth – A Rejection of History and the Present
On June 19 – the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people in the United States learned of their freedom – the White House remained conspicuously silent. President Donald Trump, who had publicly ...
We’re Still Broadcasting – The Voice Without a Name: Why Radio Farda and Voice of America Must Survive Despite Trump’s Cuts
When the rockets began to fall, our team had already been thinned out. More than half of Radio Farda’s newsroom had been furloughed – not due to a lack of work, but because of political calculation...
The President’s Priorities – When Global Crises Pale in Comparison to Two Flagpoles
While the G7 nations are meeting in Canada to discuss the looming escalation in the Middle East, while diplomats search for the right words and generals debate flight paths, there is one place where the tectonic ...
Trump vs. Gabbard – How the President Is Dismantling His Intelligence Chief
In the shadow of escalating tensions between the U.S., Iran, and Israel, an internal power struggle is unfolding that could shake the leadership structure of America’s national security agencies. According to White House insiders, President Donald Trump is increasingly losing confidence ...
US Courts Halt Trump’s Rollbacks – Protections for Trans Rights and Public Health Strengthened
A federal court in Massachusetts has blocked the Trump administration from restricting gender marker options in U.S. passports. The decision by Judge Julia Kobick prohibits the Department of Homeland Security ...
Farewell to the American Dream - Why in 2025 the US is no longer a land of longing for many
America used to be a promise. A place that existed not only on the map but also in people's minds and hearts - as a synonym for new beginnings, freedom, limitless possibilities. But the image has cracked...
A House That Does Not Stay Silent – Why Anklam Deserves More Than a Right-Wing Network Hub
On Saturday, June 14, Anklam once again became the site of a gathering that sounds harmless at first. “Visit to the North” – that was the code name under which dozens of far-right actors
A Testimony of Faith in the Shadow of Deportation – How the Church in San Diego Stands with Refugees
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 ...
Brown Shadows Over Anklam – a place that stands firm even when many stay silent
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” ...
Big Bird (Bibo) Toppled – America’s Culture War Hits the Smallest
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 ...
Lost Trust – How Trump’s Travel Ban Is Alienating Arab American Voters in Michigan
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, ...
The Vanity of a Man – How Donald Trump Turns the Rose Garden into a Concrete Slab
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...
Kindergarten on a State Level - How Elon Musk and the Trump Camp Unravel Their Toxic Masculinity in Public
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...
The Horses and Happiness – A Story from Namibia
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 ...
Power Without a Majority – The Political Labyrinth of Greifswald
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 ...
“Tiny Hands – Giant Bribes” – The Quiet Protest Above the Highway
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 ...
“Was Everything Just Barbarism Back Then?” – On Loretta, Orcs, and the Cultural Memory of Old Masterpieces
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? ...
Apologies for the length, but not for the substance.
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 ...
A true story from real life
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 ...
"A Thread That Holds the World Together – The Quiet Wisdom of 13-Year-Old Anja Rozen"
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...
What’s unfolding in America right now, ...
... 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...
The System Didn’t Break – It Was Built This Way
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, ...
Zwischen Verachtung und Versagen
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 ...
The Veteran
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.
Katharina's Story
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, ...
Towing in Greifswald
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.
Días del Cóndor – The Sorrow of the Horses
“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 ...
My name is Jenny, I’m not running away, just going for a walk
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 ...
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