Restaurant debut in D.C. - Trump called "Hitler"
Washington - Donald Trump went only a few hundred yards out the door to project strength - and landed in the middle of dissent. The president left the White House ...
The Price of Delusion – Why Germany Must Be Careful Not to Import Trump Conditions
The numbers speak a brutal language: 62 out of 100 points on the financial distress scale. Texas, Florida, and Louisiana – precisely those states that present themselves as beacons of conservative politics ...
The Fire of Generation Z: When a Himalayan Nation Burns – At Least 19 Dead, Over 300 Injured
The morning sun of September 9, 2025, rose over Kathmandu, but instead of the usual golden light that makes the snow-covered peaks of the Himalayas glow, a biting smoke hung over the ...
The Justice Who Refuses to Be Silent – Sonia Sotomayor Stands Against the Collapse of Freedom
There are days when the law breaks - not loudly, but with a quiet click, a shadow on paper, a ruling in the archives of the Supreme Court ...
Trump escalates threats - National Guard and mass raids in Chicago allegedly planned
Donald Trump might be serious, or whatever one should call his behavior: On Monday, the president, as full of bravado as ever, announced that he would send National Guard troops ...
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 Moment That Does Not Pass - and Trump Cannot Escape
The controversy over Donald Trump's past reached a new dimension on Monday. The House Oversight Committee released a document from Jeffrey Epstein's notorious birthday book that allegedly bears the signature ...
The new escalation in the Epstein complex: Democrats release letter, Trump goes on the attack
The controversy over Donald Trump's past reached a new dimension on Monday. The House Oversight Committee released a letter addressed to Jeffrey Epstein that allegedly bears the signature ...
Supreme Court Finally Derails – A Black Day for Civil Rights
The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for new, large-scale immigration raids in Los Angeles – a step that deeply infringes on the civil rights of millions of people ...
Trump Fails in Appeals Court - $83 Million Judgment to E. Jean Carroll Upheld
Donald Trump has failed once again. A federal appeals court in Manhattan has upheld the verdict requiring the president to pay $83.3 million to author E. Jean Carroll ...
The Great Lie of Portland - How Fox News Feeds Trump and Turns a City Into an Enemy Image
It is the pattern that repeats itself over and over: right-wing media stage a distorted image of reality, and a president who long ago stopped distinguishing between truth and propaganda ...
The Dirty Balance Sheet of the Prisoner Swap – Trump, Bukele and the Man with the Knife
As we already revealed in our research in June and July 2025, the prisoner deal between Washington, Bukele and Maduro was a political and moral scandal. In our article ...
Flashpoint Kyiv – and the Information War Trump No Longer Fights
Kyiv is burning – literally and figuratively. On Sunday night, Russia launched the largest drone attack since the beginning of the war. 805 Shahed drones, supplemented by 13 missiles, rained down ...
An Attack That Changes Everything - and a Rift Through the Republican Party
The drone footage looks like something out of a dystopian war movie: A small boat, visibly overloaded, speeds through the dark Caribbean Sea. Seconds later, the strike, then silence. Eleven people dead ...
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 ...
No Invasion of Our Cities - Resistance Against Trump's National Guard Grows
This weekend, several American cities stood as symbols of resistance. In Washington, D.C., thousands took to the streets to protest the federal takeover of their police force and the deployment of National Guard troops ...
The Siege of Chicago - Trump's War on an American City
These are sentences you usually only hear in dystopian films: "Chicago is about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR," writes the President of the United States on Truth ...
Trump’s Policies Drive Them Into Ruin and Death – Arkansas’ Farmers Reap What They Have Sown, as Shocking Images Show
The images from Brookland, Arkansas, are harrowing, even for us, and revealing at the same time: Hundreds of farmers, many with deep lines from sun and worry, crowd into a gymnasium ...
Race Against Time – “Everyone Fighting to Save Honduran Children from Trump’s Deportations”
It is once again one of those weekends when everything happens at once. In Arizona, the Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project (FIRRP) pulled the emergency brake on Friday and expanded its ongoing lawsuit ...
Seventh Setback for Trump – Judge Strikes Down Deportation Plans
San Francisco, a late Friday night or early Saturday morning, and suddenly the clock stands still for more than a million people. Edward Chen, federal judge in the Northern District of California, has put the Trump ...
The Gulf Disappears – and Delta Rewrites History
It sounds like a scene from an absurd play: A flight captain opens his navigation manual, the sober revision highlights – and suddenly finds politics. In black and white it says: ...
The Fastest Way to Heaven – Trump’s $15 Ticket
Donald Trump has a new idea for how to get to paradise: by credit card. In a mass email that his Super PAC “Never Surrender” sent out three times, it says in black and white: “Friend, I want to try ...
The Secret War on the Edge of the World - from North Korea’s Coasts to the Caribbean
Sometimes it is the operations that no one is allowed to see that reveal the most about a presidency. In the spring of 2019, Donald Trump sent the legendary SEAL Team 6 on a mission so sensitive ...
The Big Ugly Bill - How Trump's Tariffs Drain Billions from the States
Our research has shown that Donald Trump's tariff policy is not just an ideological project but a gigantic, invisible tax on the US economy. Since January 2025, companies in the United States ...
The Great Step Back - Trump, AfD and the Myth of Industrial Jobs
Donald Trump had sold it as a triumph: "Liberation Day," the day he "freed" industry - from environmental regulations, from bureaucracy, from climate protection. Coal-fired power plants were to be brought back online, wind turbines ...
The Second Deportation - The Trump Administration and the Case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
The Trump administration keeps tightening the screws. On September 4, the Department of Homeland Security submitted a new filing before the immigration court in Baltimore: Should Kilmar Abrego Garcia succeed with his latest attempt to reopen ...
A senior official blabbed that the Epstein files are going to be doctored so that no Republicans get into trouble - top guy 😂😂😂
There are moments when Washington does not feel like the capital of a world power but like the worst reality show on earth. The latest scandal: A senior official at the Department of Justice, Acting Deputy Chief ...
Camp 57, Mustang Republic, Alligator Alcatraz and the Crusade of Deterrence
The backdrop could hardly be more symbolic: barbed wire, scorched grass, the flag above, Governor Jeff Landry in front, flanked by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem. In the images released by his press office, black Ford Raptors ...
Attorneys General of Control - How Russia and Texas Turn the Classroom Into a Stage of Power
Sometimes the transformation of a society first becomes visible in its schools - that was one of the central findings of our investigation. It is a moment that lingers: In Russia, the Prosecutor General ...
Department of War – Trump’s Return to 1789
You rub your eyes, but the president is serious. Donald J. Trump, 79 years old, wants to rename the Pentagon. The Department of Defense is to become the Ministry of War again ...
Kennedy: A Health Secretary Between Nobel Prize and Vaccine War
It was one of those hearings that condense the ambivalence of American politics into a single room. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health, told the Senate Finance Committee that Donald Trump ...
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: ...
The Green Colossus Staggers - How Trump's Tariff War Shatters John Deere and the Farmers
Imagine you are Josh and Dewey Enlow. Every morning you stand on your auction lot in Oklahoma, surrounded by a sea of green giants - John Deere tractors as far as the eye can see.
Florida Puts Health at Risk - How DeSantis and Ladapo Dismantle Immunization
What is happening in Florida is not just another culture-war provocation. It is a frontal attack on modern public health. State Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced Wednesday that Florida would ...
The Distortion of Reality - Why Alice Weidel Explains the World Without Ever Having Seen It
There are images that say more than a thousand words. The photo of an airplane on the runway, with the headline "Afghans miss flight because they were shopping," is such an image ...
Trump’s “Back-to-School Week”: A Timetable of Humiliations
If you believe Donald Trump, the first week of September was the start of a new political school year - with himself as the top of the class, putting America back on the right ...
Sixth Court Blow in a Row – Judge Strikes Down Trump’s Billion-Dollar Cuts to Harvard
A thunderclap from Boston: U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs (U.S. District Court, Docket No. 25-CV-1421) has declared the Trump administration’s cuts of more than $2.6 billion in research ...
The Missing Outcry: Why America’s Streets Stay Too Empty Against Trump – and the Collapse of Trump’s Numbers
The images from Labor Day 2025 tell two stories at once. There are the raised fists in front of Trump Tower in New York, the blue-striped Chicago flags waving through the canyons of skyscrapers, the “No Kings” signs in Boston.
The Troop Poker: How Trump Tests His Power Between Chicago and New Orleans
It is one of those reversals that characterize Donald Trump's presidency: just moments ago he was boasting with the certainty of a conqueror "We are going in," and already he is rowing back, ...
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 ...
The Day Europe Lost Its Innocence
Beijing, September 3, 2025. The sun rose over Tiananmen Square and illuminated a scene of surreal symbolism: three men whose regimes are responsible for the systematic oppression of millions shook hands ...
The Great Emptiness of the Epstein Files - and How Washington Strangles the Truth
33,000 pages, countless black bars, a country screaming for truth - and a Washington that prefers to suffocate it. Washington calls it transparency, in reality it is a disgrace ...
The Modern Slave Trade and the Cold Value of Morality
Der Verdacht lag schon damals lange in der Luft – bei einigen Journalisten, bei Menschenrechtsbeobachtern, bei jenen, die sich auch in diesem Teil der Erde auskennen. Nur Trump selbst durchschaute…
A Week, Five Major Defeats - Trump's Power Fantasies Crash Against the Constitution
Donald Trump is in the middle of a series of legal defeats that are extraordinary even for his presidency, which is marked by constant fire. Within just a few days, one key pillar after another was pulled out from...
The Man Who Built the Wall of Light and Filmed the State
It was a night that shone as brightly in Chongqing as rarely before - not because of the neon facades of the megacity, but because of a single projector. At 10 p.m., a few days before ...
A President in the Dock - Judge Stops Trump’s Use of the National Guard in Los Angeles
It was a legal thunderclap that rolled over Washington this Tuesday: Federal Judge Charles Breyer ruled that the use of the National Guard in Los Angeles to accompany immigration raids was unlawful ...
The Price of False Peace - Why Ukraine Stands Firm While Russia Crumbles
It is a bitter arithmetic of this war: the more fiercely Moscow targets the Ukrainian hinterland with drones and missiles, the more united Ukraine's home front becomes - and the more visibly the edges of the Russian system fray.
Gavin Newsom Sends Karoline Leavitt Into the "Hunger Games" - and the Internet Cheers
When California Governor Gavin Newsom strikes, he strikes hard - and this time it was Karoline Leavitt who got hit. Over Labor Day weekend, his press office dropped a meme depicting the 28-year-old White House ...
Historic Trilateral Meeting in Beijing: Kim, Putin and Xi Demonstrate a New Power Architecture – What Does This Mean for the West?
For the first time in history they will stand together on one stage: Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. The North Korean ruler arrived in Beijing on Tuesday ...
The Unheard Silence - Robert Mueller Remains Silent on the Epstein Scandal While Virginia Giuffre’s Voice Grows Louder After Her Death
In Washington, a symbolic step was taken this Monday: Congress has withdrawn the subpoena of former FBI Director Robert Mueller, who was to testify before the House Oversight Committee as part of the investigation into the ...