The Hour of Decisions - and of Doubt
America votes - and yet it is not just about the candidates. It is about the condition of a nation that, since Donald Trump’s return to the White House, has turned into a mixture ...
Architecture of Corruption – Trump Fires the Entire Arts Commission and Plans a New Versailles in the White House
It was a blow against any form of independent oversight: The White House has dismissed all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, the long-standing federal commission that for ...
Every university must build a sanctuary - Oklahoma's hate law for Charlie Kirk and the dangerous proximity to violence
It sounds like a macabre joke, but it is political bitter seriousness: In Oklahoma a bill is on the table that forces every public university to redesignate a campus area as "Charlie Kirk Memorial Plaza" ...
Vance, Hegseth and Miller Called “Nazis” - A Play of Lies and Escalation
On Wednesday, Union Station in Washington D.C. offered the grotesque image of an orchestrated spectacle that could hardly be surpassed in its absurdity. Vice President J. D. Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ...
A Monster Misused – Elmo's X Account Hacked with Antisemitic Hate Messages
It is a disturbing turn for one of the world’s most beloved characters: Elmo, the red, fluffy Muppet from “Sesame Street,” has become the target of hackers ...
A Quiet Farewell – President Biden Honors Melissa Hortman
At the Minnesota Capitol on Friday, a quiet, solemn atmosphere prevailed as President Joe Biden arrived in person to pay his final respects to the late Speaker of the House Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark ...
A Turning Point in New York – Zohran Mamdani and the Trembling of the Democrats
New York, June 26, 2025 – It was a political earthquake that shook not only the streets of New York but threw the entire Democratic Party into turmoil: Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old self-declared democratic ...
Heroic Act Before the Service – Church Members Stop Armed Attacker in Michigan
Wayne, Michigan - It could have been another bloodbath, one of those headlines America has read far too often. But on Sunday morning, a potential mass shooting was stopped at the last second: outside CrossPointe ...
A Final Greeting from the Shadows - The Murder of Valeria Márquez, a Femicide with a Political Message
Zapopan / Washington / Mexico City - About the moment when Valeria Márquez, 23 years old, was shot dead during a TikTok livestream in her beauty salon in Zapopan. We had reported on this case several times. About her last words ...
Republicans Revise Trump’s Mega-Bill – and Send the First Victims to the Front Lines
It was Donald Trump’s grand promise – a “big beautiful bill” meant to overhaul America’s economy, reward his voters, and leave opponents speechless. But as soon as the House approved their draft, the Republican-controlled Senate ...
After Fatal Shootings of Lawmakers: Vance Boelter Arrested
It was the uniform that became their undoing. No alarm, no warning, no broken lock – just the shimmering blue of a fake police cruiser pulling up in the night like so many before it...
America Faces Its Reflection – The Media Shift After the “No Kings” Protests
There are Sundays when not only the world but its reflections begin to tremble. June 15, 2025 was one such day – and the American press took notice. From Los Angeles to Fairbanks ...
Deliberate Attack or Reckless Rage? SUV driver plows through crowd at 'No Kings' protest in Virginia
Culpeper, Virginia – It was the end of a peaceful day of protest that had brought thousands of people to the streets across the country: At a "No Kings" demonstration in the quiet town of Culpeper, the day ...
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 ...
As if the war had come home – Soldiers forced into a domestic police deployment against their will
It is an image more familiar from dictatorships than from what claims to be the world’s oldest democracy: 4,000 National Guard soldiers and 700 Marines marching through ...
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 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...
Dallas rises - Protests against Trump's deportation policy reach Texas
On Monday evening, Dallas became the next stage in the growing resistance against the deportation offensive of U.S. President Donald Trump. Dozens of demonstrators gathered on the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, holding up signs and waving flags ...
The Siege of Los Angeles – Trump, Newsom, and the Uprising in the West
t was a Sunday that felt like a turning point in American history. Thousands of people poured into the streets of Los Angeles, blocked freeways, and set self-driving vehicles on fire. These were images that recalled the summer of 2020 - George Floyd, tear gas, rebellion...
A Dangerous Precedent - How Donald Trump Placed California's National Guard Under Federal Command
It is a step that goes far beyond political symbolism - and reaches deep into the constitutional entrails of the United States: On June 7, 2025, Donald Trump ordered ...
America's New Apartheid – How Trump's Justice Department Seeks to Legitimize School Segregation Again
It is just a country road that separates Ferriday from Vidalia – but crossing it means traveling through decades of American history. On one side: Ferriday High School, a campus ...
Hygiene Is a Matter of Luck – Trump’s Golf Club Fails, 18 Violations, Grade: Catastrophic
Sometimes, numbers tell more than any political statement ever could. One of them: 32 out of 100 points – that was the score awarded to the “Trump National Golf Club Bedminster” in May 2025 by the Somerset County Department of Health...
A Bill, a Sunrise - and the Regret That Followed: How Trump's Agenda Was Forced Through the House of Representatives
Washington, early summer 2025. The sun had just risen over the Capitol when a moment of collective relief unfolded in the House chamber. After a night of intense debate, whispered strategy, tactical maneuvering, and a final showdown, ...
The Disempowerment of the States - Trump's AI Law Opens the Door to Total Surveillance
Some laws sound dry and technical, almost like trivial bureaucracy. Yet hidden between sober paragraphs lies, at times, an explosive force capable of shaking the foundations of a democracy. One such law is Trump’s latest project,..
Artificial Health – How Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Hallucinates the American Reality
One has to imagine it: The central health report of the US government - the very document that is supposed to provide millions of people with guidance on health issues - is crammed full of fabricated sources, dead links, and digital watermarks ...
Steel-Hard, But Stupid – How Trump Spooked the Markets With 50% Tariffs and Gave Apple a Scare
By a man who set out to make America great again – and burned billions along the way. It was one of those scenes that have become routine in Trump’s second term: a warehouse ...
Elon Musk and the Great Misunderstanding – A Balance Sheet in Ruins
He came to Washington wielding a chainsaw – both metaphorically and politically. Elon Musk, multi-entrepreneur, billionaire, and self-declared government reformer, entered the political stage with the swagger of a man who believes everything can be solved ...
A New Exclusion – How Marco Rubio, Backed by Trump, Is Targeting Chinese Students
It was a statement with political explosiveness – and it was made not in Beijing, but in Washington: On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the United States would begin revoking the visas of Chinese ...
Five Steps Back - How America’s Supreme Court Sacrificed Environmental Protection for Oil
The Supreme Court of the United States ruled on Thursday that a multibillion-dollar oil railroad project in the state of Utah may proceed - despite massive environmental concerns, despite open climate consequences, despite everything ...
Judge Versus President – How Harvard Is Resisting Trump’s Assault on International Students
It was a ruling spoken softly – yet its impact echoes loudly: On May 29, 2025, U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting the Trump administration from banning Harvard University from ...
Judges Block Trump’s Tariff War - US Trade Court Sets Limits on Presidential Emergency Powers
Washington, May 29, 2025 – A federal court in New York delivered a serious legal setback to President Donald Trump on Wednesday: His attempt to impose sweeping tariffs on global imports by invoking the 1977 emergency powers law ...
"Trump Knows Only Loyalty – How the President Pardoned a Family That Calls Themselves the ‘Trumps of the South’"
It was a sentence straight out of a reality show – staged, over-the-top, yet shockingly real in its cynicism: “Your parents are going to be free and clean – I hope by tomorrow.” Spoken by Donald ...
Supreme Court rejects plea to block copper mine on land sacred to Apaches in Arizona
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from Apaches fighting against a massive copper mining project on federal land in Arizona that they consider sacred. The justices upheld lower court decisions that allow ...
It is outrageous that President Trump is granting white South Africans immediate entry into the U.S. as a ‘persecuted minority’
A conversation with Jonathan Turner, former refugee aid worker in South Africa and USAID employee. Vermont/Washington – When the White House announced its new executive order on February 15, 2025, granting preferential entry to white South Africans, ...
Digital Sabotage – How Trump Is Keeping the Truth From Reaching the Farms
It is a strike with surgical precision – and with an ideological scalpel. What President Donald Trump is doing to the Digital Equity Act is not an ordinary budget cut...
"Did the wind build the computer?" – Creationism, distortion, and the new war on science
Republican Representative Glenn Gruenhagen of Minnesota is once again making headlines – not for legislation or meaningful contributions to education policy, but for a rhetorical smokescreen straight from the toolbox of the Christian right. ...
8647 – A Bridge, a Sign, and the Courage of Two People
Our Encounter with the Protesters of Fargo. It was a clear, windy afternoon over the I-94, where the bridge stretches like a silent ribbon connecting two sides of a fractured city...
How Trump’s Policies Are Shaking Minnesota to Its Core
It begins with a number that is more than just a statistic: 150,000 people in Minnesota are at risk of losing their health insurance. What is dryly referred to as “budget consolidation” in the corridors of Washington means, in the lives ...
The Great Clucking
How Michigan’s Chicken Wars Aim to Tame Egg Prices. It is a fateful battle of feathers and fried eggs, an epic struggle between the dreams of fresh breakfast eggs and the steel walls of municipal bureaucracy...
The Storm of Indifference
How Trump and Musk Abandoned Kentucky to the Tornado. It was as if the sky itself was passing judgment. The tornado tore through Kentucky, ripping apart houses, ...
The Lie Becomes Lesson
How Oklahoma Is Selling Conspiracy Theories About the 2020 Election as Knowledge to Students. The state of Oklahoma, once known for its solid educational standards, has taken a new path - one paved with misinformation...
Advertising and Madness Are So Close Together
It began as a picture. A harmless photo of seashells, randomly arranged on a beach. But in a world that loves madness, it became a call, a scandal, a threat...
A State at a Standstill – The Strike That Divides New Jersey
It is a strike that brings the heartbeat of an entire state to a halt. On Friday morning, New Jersey woke to chaos, reflected in empty train platforms, long lines at bus stops, and desperate calls to ride-sharing services. Around 350,000 commuters ...
The Children in the Truck
How Trump's ICE Agents Destroyed the Last Trust. It happened at the Sinclair gas station, at the intersection of Ventura Road and Wooley Boulevard in Oxnard, California - a place where people stop for a moment before moving on...
The Moral Noose – How Six Republican Men in South Carolina Want the Death Penalty for Abortion
"From a nation slowly forgetting itself". Once upon a time, in the heart of the United States, six Republican men, dressed in pressed jackets and wearing antiquated smiles, ...
Osage Nation: From Oil Boom to Renewed Dispossession
A Fight Against the Politics of Oppression. For centuries, the Osage Nation has fought for its sovereignty, its land, and its economic independence. However, with the recent decision by the Trump administration and the Department ...
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