Investigative Journalism
It was an interview straight out of a Machiavellian stage play: two people on the set - Maria Bartiromo, a Fox News veteran known for her sharp rhetoric, and Donald J. Trump, the president of rearview mirrors and distortions ...
Sometimes history is not written but barked into existence. Saturday was one of those days. JD Vance, Vice President of the United States and a passionate virtuoso of right-wing rhetoric, picked up his pen
It is a quiet retreat with enormous consequences: Starting June 30, the U.S. Department of Defense will cease sharing its satellite data with scientists and weather services ...
Washington, June 29, 2025 – It was a moment of rare clarity in an era of political fog. On the night from Saturday to Sunday, the U.S. Senate voted 51 to 49 to move forward on a piece of legislation that changes everything: ...
Kabul, June 2025 - By motorcycle, camper van, bicycle, or scheduled flights from Istanbul and Dubai, they are arriving: curious travelers from Europe, adventure-seekers from Asia, globetrotters with GoPros and visas in their passports ...
New Orleans, Portland, Basile - they are quiet places, far removed from the centers of power in Washington. And yet these days, they lie at the heart of a policy that strikes with full force.
Just a few hours ago, an image appeared on the official X account of the US Department of Homeland Security (@DHSgov): Four alligators lined up in formation, each wearing a cap with the white letters "ICE
It is Saturday evening in Washington, and the Senate is still lit. No ceremonial act, no state visit - but a political ballet of nerves where every vote counts. While President Donald Trump ...
Ochopee, Florida – It was a hot, oppressive day in the Everglades as hundreds of people gathered along the Tamiami Trail ...
Los Angeles, May 2025 – It was a day like so many in the labyrinth of American immigration bureaucracy – functional, overcrowded, emotionless ...
He sits there, pale, self-righteous, claiming to be misunderstood by the world. Martin Sellner, the tragicomic mascot of the Identitarian movement, once again finds life difficult.
Washington, June 28, 2025 – The highest judges in the United States, whose rulings can bend entire societies, are suddenly showing thin skin. Chief Justice John Roberts took the microphone in Charlotte on Saturday ...
"You’re done for – the judge doesn’t like Russia." The sentence hit like a stone. No legal argument, no doubt, no room for interpretation. Just a verdict that had already been made long before any hearing began ...
It was a performance meant as cultural emancipation - and ended as a historical misstep. When Beyoncé wore a T-shirt at a Juneteenth concert in Paris that portrayed the Buffalo Soldiers as heroes against "the enemies of peace," ...
It is a spectacle of political decay that plays out daily on Alice Weidel’s account – the co-chair of a party that no longer presents itself with democratic decency ...
In hardly any other institution is Donald Trump’s will to power more visible than in the Supreme Court of the United States. With an ultra-conservative six-to-three majority, ...
Washington, June 28, 2025 – In a drastic move that shakes confidence in the independence of the American justice system, the US Department of Justice on Friday dismissed at least three prosecutors who played a key role ...
It was just after four in the morning when the blast shook the street. An explosion, an armored vehicle, armed agents, a drone – and in the middle of it all: a mother with her two small children, ...
Washington, June 27, 2025 – It was a Friday of seismic upheaval: while Donald Trump, at an impromptu press conference, declared it “his most successful week ...
Washington, June 27, 2025 – The Supreme Court’s decision to prohibit nationwide injunctions has triggered a political and legal wildfire - especially among those seeking to block ...
One might almost think that the United States is determined to prove that even democracies with a constitution, a Supreme Court, and checks and balances can eventually become a caricature of themselves...
Nashville, June 27, 2025 – It is a legal paradox that seems almost incomprehensible: the attorneys of a man who was wrongfully deported from the United States ...
Washington, June 27, 2025 – When word leaked late Thursday evening that Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough had deemed central parts of Donald Trump’s ambitious tax and spending package inadmissible, ...
In Kabul, silence has fallen. Where once the desperate cries of malnourished children echoed off the walls of a therapeutic feeding center, all that remains now is the squeak of empty metal beds...
Washington, D.C. – A gold-colored television set, in the middle of the National Mall, between Capitol Hill and the White House. It’s no ordinary screen, but an art installation ...
It is a phrase that sounds like it came straight from the playbook of Germany’s AfD or Martin Sellner - and yet it comes from the America of 2025: “Denaturalize. Deport. Remigrate.” ...
It is a silent tremor that creeps into the balance sheets of American households – slowly, insidiously, but inexorably. The United States is experiencing an explosive increase in the amounts citizens are paying in tariffs ...
The White House has spoken. Not in a press conference, not through legislation – but with a phrase straight out of the arsenal of toxic family dynamics: “Daddy’s Home.” And suddenly, the world’s largest democracy feels like a poorly ventilated basement ...
A central element of Donald Trump's heavily touted legislative package of tax cuts, spending reductions, and border enforcement has been thrown into doubt: ...
Sometimes, a return to darkness doesn’t begin with a thunderclap, but with a microphone and a sentence that sounds like it was lifted from a 1425 catechism. “God has an order,” ...
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