Investigative Journalism
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, ...
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,” ...
Nashville, Tennessee - Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose unlawful deportation has become a symbol of President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policy, pleaded not guilty on Friday in a federal court in Tennessee...
The return of the “dealmaker” has ushered in a new era of greatness – at least for fans of 1970s nostalgia. The US dollar has lost more than 10% of its value in the first half of 2025 ...
It was one of those statements where it becomes almost impossible to distinguish between cynicism and calculated fearmongering: “People from mental institutions and insane asylums. You know what that is? ...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared before the press at the Pentagon on Thursday – and what followed was less a military briefing than a rhetorical offensive. With General Dan Caine at his side, Hegseth praised ...
It is a clear warning signal amid economic policy turbulence: the US economy shrank by 0.5% in the first quarter of 2025 – and thus more sharply than previously assumed. ...
Nashville, Tennessee – In a country that prides itself on being a beacon of freedom and the rule of law, a man sits in handcuffs – not because of guilt, but because of a dilemma the government created itself. Kilmar Abrego Garcia ...
n the shadow of the stone presidential heads of Mount Rushmore - among rocks, forests, and the memories of a broken treaty - a project is taking shape that does not heal America's wounds but deepens them: ...
Atlanta, June 25, 2025 – It was a premiere under high tension. For the first time, the newly appointed vaccination committee of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) met on Wednesday ...
It was a debut both expected - and algorithmically assisted. No sooner had U.S. Vice President JD Vance logged into the delicately coded world of Bluesky on June 18, 2025, than he had done it: ...
It was a moment that, even in the era of Donald Trump, remained a rarity. On an open stage, under the full spotlight of the NATO summit in the Netherlands, political seriousness dissolved completely - with just one single, adoringly inappropriate word: "Daddy."
It was one of those scenes in which political power lays over actual events like a thin sheet, barely able to conceal the truth beneath. In The Hague, where Donald Trump appeared as a guest at the NATO summit, drenched in sweat and full of his ...
There are videos that don’t need explaining - they expose. They don’t just show a face - they reveal an entire mindset. The 2:49-minute video that Donald J. Trump posted on Truth Social ...
Donald J. Trump – Nobel Peace Prize. You really have to let that melt slowly on your tongue. Like a double cheeseburger from Mar-a-Lago, marbled with raw self-aggrandizement and the ketchup of global politics...
It was a nighttime strike of immense symbolic power - and yet its echo could not sound more hollow. On June 22, 2025, in a military operation titled "Operation Midnight Hammer," ...
It began, as always, with a screenshot. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States and the first person to make diplomatic communication public via Signal screenshot, delivered once again. This time, it was a message from ...
Washington / Boston - It is a legal slap in the face for Donald Trump and a sigh of relief for thousands of young people around the world: A federal judge in Boston on Monday once again blocked a measure by the Trump administration aimed at keeping foreign students from attending Harvard University...
Santa Ana, California - These are scenes reminiscent of dictatorships: A man stands on the sidewalk, a weed trimmer on his back, trying to flee. Masked men in vests marked as US Border Patrol agents overpower him, spray him with pepper spray ...
Tel Aviv / Tehran / Washington - It was a morning between hope and rubble: On Tuesday, Israel and Iran agreed to the ceasefire plan proposed by US President Donald Trump, thus marking - at least for now - an end to an unprecedented twelve-day war ...
Washington / Tehran / Tel Aviv – In the early hours of June 24, 2025, the war between Israel and Iran seemed to have reached a turning point – at least according to U.S. President Donald Trump ...
Washington – It was a day when power triumphed over the law. On June 23, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled by a six-to-three vote that the Trump administration may once again deport migrants to so-called ...
Washington, June 23, 2025 – When Donald Trump mentions a nuclear submarine, it’s not because it sails underwater. It’s because – in his words – it is “the most technologically superior, ...
Washington - It was a weekend that will be remembered - as an example of a government contradicting itself, and of a president who prefers to destroy rather than unite. While foreign policy balancing acts around Iran ...
Doha / Tehran / Jerusalem - It was only a matter of time before the shadows of the new war fell over additional countries. In the early hours of Monday, several explosions shook the Gulf region - of all places, ...
New York - The intervention of the United States in the war between Israel and Iran - through targeted airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities - left surprisingly subdued traces on global financial markets on Monday...
Tehran / Tel Aviv / Washington – With targeted airstrikes on three military sites in Iran, the U.S. military directly entered the war between Israel and the Islamic Republic on Sunday evening ...
Baton Rouge, Louisiana - When Noah, nearly two years old, asks for his mother at bedtime, his father Adrian Clouatre simply says, “Mama will be back soon.” For his three-month-old daughter Lyn, who was still being breastfed, ...
Boise, Idaho – June 2025 - Announced with much pathos and grand rhetoric, the self-proclaimed “Hetero Awesome Fest” on June 20 and 21 in Boise turned out to be a prime example of the pitiful attempt to replace ...
Nashville, Tennessee – June 23, 2025 - A case that has long become symbolic of President Donald Trump’s controversial deportation policy took a new turn over the weekend: U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara D. Holmes ...
There are moments when global politics outpaces itself. And then there are moments like this one - when the United States, under the leadership of President Donald Trump, calls on China ...
Washington, June 22, 2025 – There was no State of the Union address, no press conference, no solemn moment in the Oval Office. Instead: a single social media post. “We have completed our very successful attack on three nuclear ...
It is an image that burns itself into memory: Donald Trump against a blood-red background, next to a figure that demands attention – 230,473,622 US dollars. That’s how much money, according to a sharepic ...
It was a massive yet limited strike - a show of force with calculated restraint. No political targets, no command centers, no air defense systems were hit. According to official Pentagon statements, Fordow was heavily ...
Washington / Tehran / Tel Aviv - In the early hours of June 22, 2025, the world changed. Three targeted U.S. airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear core sites - Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan - struck not only military objectives ...
McAllen, Texas – Children being shoved aside by adults to reach drinking water. A toddler with diarrhea who was given only tap water for days. A boy with swollen feet denied a medical ...
Amid the dramatically escalating situation in the Middle East, the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric, has issued an urgent warning ...
There are moments in history when a single command is enough to destroy decades of diplomatic work - and to plunge the world into an abyss whose depth no one can truly fathom...
Washington / Tehran / Tel Aviv - June 22, 2025 - In an escalation with unforeseeable consequences, US President Donald Trump confirmed that American forces struck three Iranian nuclear facilities on Saturday night ...
Amid growing tensions between constitutional law and religious symbolism, the state of Texas has passed a law requiring the Ten Commandments to be visibly posted in all public school classrooms. With the legislation passed ...
Gainesville – This is a scandal that reaches far beyond the campus: At the University of Florida’s law school, a 29-year-old law student, Preston Damsky, was awarded the prestigious ...
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 ...
Washington / Los Angeles / New York – He is a president on a collision course. With millions of people. With constitutional principles. With the notion that the state shouldn’t kick down ...
Los Angeles – It wasn’t just a slip of the tongue. It was a political signal – deliberate, calculated, and as serious as what it unleashed. When US Vice President JD Vance appeared Friday ...
Washington - It is a move that leaves many stunned: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) under President Donald Trump is planning to reconsider the ban on white asbestos - the last form ...