America Moves the Borders - and Europe Holds Its Breath
Trump is examining whether the United States should officially recognize Russian control over occupied territories in Ukraine. It feels like a political earthquake that had long ...
"We live under martial law, as far as the laws and the legal system are concerned" - the war on the streets of America
It was almost eerily quiet, only sometimes the rustling of the last leaves could be heard; the outlines of the houses rose into the gray sky, and it smelled of fresh tear gas after ...
What is really known about Rahmanullah Lakanwal – our investigation, the verified facts, the open questions
Again and again the same question arises: What drives a person to commit such an atrocious act? – Over the past hours we have investigated Rahmanullah Lakanwal intensively – conducted conversations, ...
A Shot at Close Range - 20-year-old soldier Sarah Beckstrom has died and a president who uses the moment for himself
Only a few hundred meters from the White House, something happened on Wednesday afternoon that plunged Washington into a mix of shock, grief and political calculation. Two National Guard ...
Green Card appointments are becoming a trap - we can barely keep up with how military families are being torn apart
In recent weeks, something has been happening in the United States that has not existed in this form for decades – and it hits many completely unprepared. People appear for their green card interview to resolve their ...
Rubio as a hero? Power struggles in the Trump administration? A distorted story is circulating in Germany – and it is simply nonsense
A picture is spreading in Germany that has little to do with reality in Washington: Marco Rubio as the man who defused a plan fatal to Ukraine at the last second ...
A President Who Draws Borders - and a Country That Has to Watch Breathlessly
Hardly had the first details of the attack on two National Guardsmen in Washington become known when a race for interpretation began that says more about the political climate in this country than about the ...
An attack in the heart of Washington - and a president who fuels the fire
Washington was full of people on Wednesday afternoon preparing for the long Thanksgiving weekend when suddenly sirens tore through the streets, ambulances drove across stopped lanes, and a police helicopter ...
The Liar with the Red Cap - Trump’s Energy World: Promised Oil, Delivered Crises - a Political Style the AfD Copies
Donald Trump acted for a year as if he could flip the country with a switch: more oil, more gas, more drilling, fewer rules, fewer environmental standards ...
The mother of Karoline Leavitt's nephew in ICE custody
Karoline Leavitt has been at the center of the political stage for months, but now an event beyond her control has created a direct connection to her own environment. The mother of her eleven-year-old nephew, ...
Foreign Trump Accounts on X Exposed – but X Is Unable to Reliably Detect or Block Modern VPN Architectures. An Investigative Report
Over the weekend, users on X were able to see for the first time where certain accounts are actually located – and the results left few people indifferent. Many of the loudest pro-Trump profiles, filled with U.S. flags, images ...
The 17-Cent Revolt of Monrovia - how day laborers force Home Depot to take a stand
In Monrovia, a few miles east of Los Angeles, day laborers and their supporters did something that was both quiet and impossible to miss. They walked into the Home Depot store, bought a single 17-cent ceramic cooktop ...
A Deal in the Shadow of Rockets – Trump Sends Two Trusted Envoys While a War Refuses to Wait
Trump announces that his peace plan has been "fine-tuned" and sends two trusted envoys on their way: Steve Witkoff is to go to Moscow, Dan Driscoll is to speak with Ukraine. He himself wants to appear only when everything is "final", as he writes. ...
Thanksgiving In A State Of Exception – A President Living Off Images That Have Nothing To Do With Reality
Donald Trump smiles into the cameras, two turkeys at his side, but hardly anyone is impressed by it anymore. While Waddle and Gobble are carried through the hotel, graphics run across ...
Melania Trump and the Flight From the Christmas Tree - two minutes fifty that say more about this White House than any press conference
Melania Trump appeared in front of the White House on Monday, glanced briefly at the Christmas tree, said “beautiful” - and was gone again. Two minutes fifty. No enthusiasm, no interest, ...
A Backroom Peace Plan – and Now the White House Confirms the Joint US–Russia Architecture
The truth had been on the table for weeks, yet the White House did everything it could to downplay it. Now the very spokeswoman who normally controls every word has said the decisive ...
Jeffrey Sachs: “Trump has the mind of a four year old” - and the world has had enough of his king fantasies
Jeffrey Sachs has rarely pulled punches in politics, but his latest assessment of Donald Trump is unusually blunt even by his standards. Asked why Trump is not attending the G20 summit, ...
And someone like this is negotiating with Russia? - the question no one dares to ask
When Steve Witkoff said on the Tucker Carlson show on March 21, 2025, that he had liked Putin, that Putin had been open with him and that he did not consider him a bad person, ...
Why Geneva Becomes a Burden for Ukraine – and for All Those Who Stand by Her
In Geneva, delegations from the United States and Ukraine sit at long tables, and both sides speak of progress. But the more words are spoken, the clearer it becomes that no one ...
Why a Republican Is Publicly Standing Up to Trump – Bacon’s Warning, McConnell’s Sentence and the Situation of the Refugees
Don Bacon has done something that is almost risky in today’s Republican Party. He publicly criticized the sitting president. Not in a roundabout way, not as a side remark, but sharply and unmistakably ...
How a capitulation plan shakes Ukraine and puts hundreds of thousands in the United States at risk
In Bucha, where mass graves, bullet holes, and the smell of burned wood still remind people of what Russian soldiers left behind in the spring of 2022, residents are grappling with a new burden ...
The small intruder - how a young alligator enchanted Boston for a moment
Sometimes a single animal is enough to jolt an entire city out of its routine. In Boston it was a tiny alligator, barely longer than a forearm, that appeared a few days ...
A girl, 12 years old, an empty street corner - and a state that takes her last parent
Delila stood in front of Logan Elementary School and looked, as she did every day, for her father’s face. It was routine, a small daily ritual between the two of them: ...
Washington trembles – thousands demand the end of the Trump regime
Washington showed on Saturday how quickly political dissatisfaction can turn into a tremor. Across the country, thousands of demonstrators poured into the streets nationwide, including here in the capital Washington, D.C., ...
The Judge Who Opened the Gate - How John Roberts Paved Donald Trump’s Way Back to Power
In the coming years, there will be many explanations for why the United States, at this moment of all moments, once again entrusted power to a man who openly ...
The woman in free fall – why the White House has long been discussing the end of Kristi Noem
Karoline Leavitt can get as loud as she wants – it does not change the fact that people in the president’s circle have long been talking about the future of Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem. And not in the sense of a ...
A Handshake That Shakes New York – “Are you confirming that you consider Trump a fascist?” – Mamdani: “Yes.”
It was a political encounter that revealed more than any party convention speech. The meeting between Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani in the Oval Office was exactly such a moment. For weeks, both had ...
At the limit of what is bearable – how Trump and Putin force Ukraine into a space from which there is no dignified exit
It feels like a moment in which several political axes are shifting at the same time. While Donald Trump publicly pressures Volodymyr Zelenskyy to sign his peace plan by Thanksgiving, ...
The Abyss After the Fall - Why Trump’s Venezuela Course Could Push a Country Into Uncertainty
Washington has long since decided where things are headed. Donald Trump describes Nicolás Maduro as an outlaw, as an enemy of the United States, and he has moved warships, aircraft and special units so close ...
A Verdict With Shockwaves – Why a Federal Judge Is Halting Trump’s Deployment in the Capital
Washington is experiencing a conflict these weeks that it has not seen in this form before: a president who lets the National Guard patrol the streets of the capital for months ...
The Moment of Truth? – what Trump’s signature means and how the Epstein files will proceed from here
Sometimes a political situation shifts not because of major speeches but because of a single signature. On Wednesday, that was the moment. Trump put his name, surely without much enthusiasm, under ...
The Moment When Trump Gave In - and Suddenly Released the Epstein Files
Donald Trump wanted to keep this issue under lock and key. For weeks he had resisted the effort by Congress to force him to release the files on Jeffrey Epstein. He could block it, delay it, talk it to death, ...
The Day Trump Finally Lost All Boundaries
There are appearances where even seasoned observers are no longer sure whether they are following a political speech or watching the free fall of a man who has long since lost all contact ...
12 Hours America – U.S.-Crash
Twelve hours America - and everything lies open: a country between hunger and megalomania, between poverty and power, between ideology and fear. Twelve hours that show how deep ...
A State Without Restraint - how a Border Patrol operation in the northern United States crosses an invisible line
There are recordings that are so clear that they make any attempt at relativization unnecessary. The images from Oak Park, Michigan, belong exactly to that. A woman lies handcuffed on the ground, her hands pulled tightly ...
Operation Pressure Point - how Trump crosses a line in Venezuela
Research has revealed that Trump has given the C.I.A. permission to operate covertly in Venezuela. Not a side issue and not a technical detail, but a step that lifts the entire conflict to a new level ...
When Belém Shines and Berlin Stumbles - a Sentence That Shames a Government
Belém - Friedrich Merz apparently wanted to share only a brief impression after his return from Belém. What followed was nationwide criticism in Brazil, accusations of arrogance, xenophobia and a President Lula who did not hesitate ...
A Breakthrough in the Shadows - and a President Losing Control
The evening in Washington had barely ended when it became clear that the Senate would wave through the Epstein file without a single change, without hearings, without delay. A decision whose clarity ...
“Things Happen” - Trump’s Alignment With the Crown Prince and a Deal That Reaches Far Beyond Khashoggi
In the Oval Office, two men sit next to each other who know exactly what is at stake that afternoon. On one side Donald Trump, the president who is back at the lever ...
427 to 1 - and a lone Trump loyalist stands against the release of the Epstein files - The vote is a catastrophe for Trump
The US Congress sent a clear signal on Tuesday. With 427 to 1 votes, the House of Representatives approved the release of the Epstein file. A rare moment of bipartisan unity - ...
“You are part of the coverup. Some of them need to go to prison.” - The war inside MAGA - An investigative report
The MAGA world is on fire - open, visible, unmistakable. In the place where absolute allegiance ruled for years, loyalty is now breaking apart like a rotting orange tree. Trump is losing control over the people who once ...
First Consequences - The Fall of a Man Who Should Have Known Better
There are withdrawals from public life that happen quietly, almost imperceptibly. And then there are those that resemble a political thunderclap because they expose a truth that had been pushed aside for years ...
It is becoming tighter for Trump - The connection that was never meant to be seen - and that he still cannot explain
There are political stories that lie in the dark for a long time until one discovery tears everything open. An analysis of private messages from Jeffrey Epstein’s communications archive belongs exactly in this category ...
“And whoever refuses then will have to explain why they protected alleged offenders” – A President in Decline
Donald Trump has long relied on the belief that no one could politically harm him. A president who presents himself as invulnerable, who displays his ...
James Comey: A case on the edge - and a judge who speaks of misconduct at the Justice Department
The case against James Comey suffered a new and serious shock on Monday. In Alexandria, Virginia, a federal judge declared that the Justice Department may have committed misconduct – a word that is rarely...
Operation Midway Blitz - and the madness goes on and on
Ernesto Diaz thought in the first seconds that he was being mugged. A masked man grabbed his left shoulder, pushed him against a vehicle, and the pain shot up his arm ...
Maduro Sings “Imagine” by John Lennon – and Reality Stays Outside
Nicolás Maduro knows how to build a backdrop. On Saturday he stood on a stage, surrounded by supporters in red shirts, cameras of state television close to his face - and grabbed ...
The President in the Trap - and a Power Struggle That Shakes Washington
Donald Trump wanted to keep this chapter closed at any cost. For weeks, he resisted every move in Congress that could force the release of the Epstein file. But on Monday night, ...
Charlotte in a State of Emergency
Charlotte experienced a low point this weekend unlike anything the city had seen in years. Within a few hours, the everyday life of a metropolis that is usually shaped by Latin American life, international immigration and ...
A flying moment - and a congressman in serious need of explanation
Brad Sherman understands the mechanics of public outrage better than many of his colleagues. For nearly three decades he has served as a Democratic representative from California in the House of Representatives, an experienced budget and foreign policy specialist, ...