The Eight Who Learned Nothing
Eight votes were enough to end the longest government shutdown in American history. Eight votes that led the country out of paralysis - and at the same time plunged it deeper into self-forgetfulness ...
Hunger in the Shadow of Pets – When America’s Poorest Can No Longer Feed Themselves or Their Animals
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“The court will not hesitate to enforce compliance by all means available”
Washington – It is one of those decisions that will go down in the history of American separation of powers. John J. McConnell Jr., Chief Federal Judge of the U.S. District Court for the State of Rhode Island, has ordered ...
Zohran Mamdani crowns the Democrats’ triumph - and becomes mayor of New York City
New York - It was more than an election. After the Democrats’ victories today in Virginia and New Jersey, this success is more than a moment of renewal. Zohran Mamdani, 34 years old, ...
Courts Ordered Aid – But the Trump Administration Keeps Letting People Go Hungry
Washington – In the midst of the longest government shutdown in decades, the Trump administration is once again under fire – this time over hunger. A coalition of cities, relief organizations, and social associations accuses the White House ...
The Last Democrat - How Barack Obama Is Bringing a Lost Party Back Together
Norfolk, Virginia - It is an image that feels both familiar and desperate at once: Barack Obama stands on a stage, the sun breaking through gray clouds, the crowd cheering, and ...
An American President Against America
In a country that likes to see itself as the embodiment of the “American dream,” a simple table says more about the political present than a thousand speeches. It comes from the official ...
The Organizer - Scott Presler, the "Kirk Whisperer", and how he is reprogramming the MAGA movement
He is not a lawmaker, not a minister, not a televangelist - and yet Scott Presler channels more energy through the American right than many Republican power brokers in Washington. While Donald Trump fills the stage, ...
South Korea Between the Fronts - How a Government Tries to Contain the Protests Against Trump and Xi Jinping
In the narrow streets of Myeongdong, where tourists and street vendors compete for the same space, Lin Yung-pin leads a group from Taiwan through the maze of lights, scents, and voices ...
When the FBI Knocked at the Door - and a Phone Recorded Everything on Video
Two men, a knock on the door, one sentence: "Your name came up." That is how Trump’s America shows its redefinition of terrorism - and how easily someone today can come into the sight of the state ...
The Princess Who Never Was – Virginia Giuffre’s Final Accusation Against Prince Andrew
It is a book that sounds like a last word from beyond the grave – unvarnished, harrowing, almost too direct to still pass as literature. Nobody’s Girl, the posthumously released autobiography of Virginia ...
The Oath, the Abyss, the Resignation - How a U.S. Marine Colonel After 24 Years Publicly Stands Against Trump
He served his country for almost a quarter of a century. Afghanistan, Iraq, the endless desert drills from Camp Pendleton to Quantico - Doug Krugman was one of those officers who never raised their voice ...
"You will be treated like Hamas and Antifa" - The new language of power
What Mike Johnson said yesterday broke almost every chain. The Speaker of the House said on Wednesday: "Anyone participating in the 'No Kings demonstrations' this weekend to protest against the Trump administration ...
The War of Donald T. – How a President Dismantles the State and Governs Through Chaos
Washington these days resembles a besieged palace. In the corridors of the White House, where strategies were once forged, now reigns the silence of an administrative corpse. No budget, no trust, no sense ...
The Frozen State - Paralysis, Threats, Inflation and the Silence of a Capital
Twelve days of paralysis. Twelve days in which the most powerful country in the world disables its own institutions while hundreds of thousands of federal employees sit at home without pay ...
Trump’s Mass Layoffs - America Dismisses Its Own Peace
On Friday morning, the White House set in motion a step that shook the foundations of the public service: the beginning of mass dismissals of federal employees. What is officially called a “reduction in force” ...
Am I Crazy - or the World?
Sometimes I sit there, read the news, and wonder if maybe it’s me. Maybe I’m the last one who missed the memo. Maybe the new reality ...
US Attorney General Bondi stands with her back to the wall - and she knows it
October 7, 2025, begins with a promise and ends with a claim. In between lies a hearing in which fewer answers were found than battle lines. Pam Bondi, the Attorney General of the United ...
Fire on Edisto Beach - Judge Goodstein’s House Destroyed, Family Injured, Investigation into Possible Arson
A massive fire completely destroyed the beach house of Judge Diane S. Goodstein in the coastal town of Edisto Beach, South Carolina, on Saturday morning. Three family members of the 69-year-old jurist were injured and had to be taken to hospitals ...
To the Sound of Star Wars - Charlie Kirk Supporter Led Away in Portland
There are images one would take for satire if they were not real. In Portland, the city once known for protest culture, creativity, and progressive values, police officers led a man away in handcuffs on Friday night ...
Trump under Pressure - Jeffries Attacks Republicans as "Unserious"
The fronts in the bitter budget dispute continue to harden. While Speaker Mike Johnson canceled the House session week in order to force the Senate to adopt the funding bill passed by Republicans, the pressure ...
Trump Targets Black Workers - the Black Caucus Calls for Resistance
When the lights go out in Washington, it does not affect everyone equally. Hardly had the shutdown begun when it became clear who was hit hardest by the first blows: Black federal employees ...
Shutdown as a Weapon - Trump Plunges the US into Chaos
The United States has been at a standstill since midnight. A country that sees itself as a bastion of stability and reliability begins October with closed offices, empty counters, and 750,000 federal ...
Fire and Shots in the House of God - A Sunday that Shook Michigan
It was shortly after the beginning of the service when in Grand Blanc Township, north of Detroit, the peace of Sunday Mass was torn apart in an inferno of violence. Hundreds of people ...
The Arrest of Dr. Ian Roberts - When ICE Shakes Iowa’s Largest School District
It was an ordinary Friday morning in Des Moines, the capital of Iowa, until the news spread that struck the school system and the community like a shock: Dr. Ian Roberts, ...
The Hidden Fracture - Why America Talks About Socialism But Remains Conservative
It is a number that makes you sit up and take notice: 17 percent of Americans today describe themselves as democratic socialists. 83 percent reject this. For decades, the term “socialism” in ...
Order From Within – Pete Hegseth’s Power Test With America’s Generals
Pete Hegseth, Trump’s defense secretary, has thrown the American armed forces into a state of shock. On the minister’s orders, dozens of generals and admirals from around the world are to gather next week at a base in Virginia ...
Between Trump and Trump - PR in the Style of the Right
In the Rose Garden of the White House hangs not a portrait of history, but a manifesto of power. To the left Trump, to the right Trump - and in between no person, no face, no predecessor, ...
The Sexual Matador - Breakfast with the Enemy
He is, then, the "sexual matador," tearing open the curtains in the morning as if the world were moments away from a bullfight rather than the morning commute. She smiles, her voice sultry, ...
Jimmy Kimmel Back on Air – ABC Lifts Suspension After Kirk Scandal
It was a week full of headlines, speculation, and heated debates – and now comes the surprising reversal: Jimmy Kimmel is returning. Less than seven days after his suspension by ABC ...
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