Investigative Journalism
A massive fire completely destroyed the beach house of Judge Diane S. Goodstein in the coastal town of Edisto Beach, South Carolina, on Saturday morning. Three family members of the 69-year-old jurist were injured and had to be taken to hospitals ...
What was still seen as a legal turning point yesterday has already become obsolete today. Barely had a federal judge in Oregon prohibited the federalization of that state’s National Guard when Donald Trump reacted ...
Anyone walking through the well-kept suburbs of Virginia would hardly suspect that behind a row of pastel-colored houses, built in 1949, in Arlington lies the nerve center of a political radicalization. Russ Vought, ...
On Saturday morning, an unremarkable intersection in southwest Chicago turned into a reflection of American power politics. Against the backdrop of escalating immigration raids, a federal officer shot a female driver who ...
A federal judge has put an end to the grand production: Karin Immergut, Case No. 3:25-cv-01756, U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s planned federalization ...
There are news stories that sound as if they were stolen straight from a parody show. But this is America under Trump: this is where the absurd becomes governance. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ...
Sometimes the political anatomy of a government reveals itself not in grand speeches or international crises but in the quiet, paper-filled rooms of a courtroom. The case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia ...
There are images one would take for satire if they were not real. In Portland, the city once known for protest culture, creativity, and progressive values, police officers led a man away in handcuffs on Friday night ...
What remains when a building is stormed in the middle of the night by hundreds of heavily armed federal agents? In Chicago’s South Shore the answer shows itself in shards, smashed doors, blood stains on the floor ...
Four men dead, a burning boat off the coast of Venezuela - and a U.S. government that spins a war narrative out of it. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared on Friday that the strike ...
A new chapter of brutality unfolded in front of the ICE prison in Portland - an incident that makes clear that the escalation of violence is not coming from the ranks of protesters but ...
Apple and Google have sent a clear signal this week - and in doing so banned far more than just an app from their stores. Both companies blocked applications that allowed ...
The fronts in the bitter budget dispute continue to harden. While Speaker Mike Johnson canceled the House session week in order to force the Senate to adopt the funding bill passed by Republicans, the pressure ...
It is perhaps the most absurd scene of the evening: police officers standing in front of an ICE building under cover of night, the whole day without migrants to pick up, no big brawls, ...
A not publicly released, unclassified communication to Congress, 17 dead at sea, a new narrative: Donald Trump has it recorded that the United States is in an "armed conflict" with drug cartels ...
The president of the free world lifts world history to the level of a tongue-twister test. "I believe we have settled Aber-baijan and Albania," says Donald Trump, 79, delivering the rare ...
When the lights go out in Washington, it does not affect everyone equally. Hardly had the shutdown begun when it became clear who was hit hardest by the first blows: Black federal employees ...
It is the second day of the government shutdown in Washington, and Donald Trump is staging it like an instrument of power. Where previous presidents in such moments tried to keep the damage to public administration ...
Sunday morning in Chicago felt like the beginning of a dystopian dream. Federal agents in camouflage uniforms patrolled the streets of River North, one of the city’s busiest tourist districts ...
While in Washington since October 1, 2025 the clocks have stood still, the Trump administration once again proves that standstill does not apply to everyone. More than 750,000 federal employees do not know if and when they will be ...
The hall in Quantico was full, the stands tightly packed with generals and admirals, flag officers who have spent decades in service. One would have expected facts, strategies ...
It takes only a few clicks, yet they can move worlds. Right-wing networks long ago understood that with brazen claims they can poison public debate. A tweet here, a share there — soon false ...
The linoleum floor on the twelfth floor of Federal Plaza 26 in Manhattan knows many stories. It has heard the shuffling steps of desperate families waiting anxiously for their hearings ...
The United States has been at a standstill since midnight. A country that sees itself as a bastion of stability and reliability begins October with closed offices, empty counters, and 750,000 federal ...
Portland – It is a sentence that is hard to surpass in its absurdity: “It looks like a warzone… Unless they are playing false recordings, this looks like World War II ...
It is once again one of those nights in Washington in which democracy threatens to break under its own paralysis. Hours before the deadline the US government is facing a partial shutdown ...
It was a power demonstration with prior announcement. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had hundreds of the highest-ranking officers of the United States flown in on Tuesday to dictate to them ...
Suzanne Swierc was director of health promotion and advocacy at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, when she wrote a sentence on her private Facebook account that would destroy her life: ...
A plane full of people who sought protection has been turned into a tool of political power games. Around one hundred Iranian men and women were put this week into a U.S.-chartered aircraft that flew from Louisiana via Qatar to Tehran.
It was meant to be a symbolic moment: Kash Patel, newly appointed FBI Director of the Trump administration, traveled to Wellington at the end of July to inaugurate the FBI’s first standalone office in New Zealand ...
A military all-hands meeting is not unusual in itself. But when Donald Trump and his Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth issue the invitation, it looks less like a sober briefing and more like ...
The government in Washington has presented a plan that looks like a fossil from another time: coal is supposed to return to the top of the US energy supply, no matter the cost ...
The worst riots in Portland - conditions that left us stunned. Ten minutes of footage full of cruelty: people dancing at street festivals, tourists with cameras, families eating ice cream. The...
Donald Trump currently seems to be pulling new ideas out of a hat on a weekly basis for how to drive the United States economically into the ground. His latest trick: “substantial” tariffs ...
Donald Trump has once again put an idea into the world that can hardly be surpassed in absurdity. In an angry post on his platform Truth Social, he declared that the movie business had been “stolen from Hollywood
Donald Trump once again maneuvered himself into a corner with a bizarre video. In the night from Saturday to Sunday, he posted a clip on his platform Truth Social generated ...
It was shortly after the beginning of the service when in Grand Blanc Township, north of Detroit, the peace of Sunday Mass was torn apart in an inferno of violence. Hundreds of people ...
An investigative research deep in the MAGA circle shows how loyalty became a weapon, how intrigues hollow the movement out from within and how Marjorie Taylor Greene and Charlie Kirk turned into symbols ...
Donald Trump speaks of a “war-ravaged city,” as if Portland’s streets were fields of ruins. Those who live here see the opposite: people jogging along the Willamette River, drinking coffee by the fountain, strolling ...
It was an ordinary Friday morning in Des Moines, the capital of Iowa, until the news spread that struck the school system and the community like a shock: Dr. Ian Roberts, ...
In our article "The Big Lie of Portland - How Fox News Feeds Trump and Turns a City into an Enemy Image" at https://kaizen-blog.org/en/die-grosse-luege-von-portland-wie-fox-news-trump-fuettert-und-eine-stadt-zum-feindbild-macht/ we exposed how Donald Trump ...
It was only a post on Truth Social, nine minutes old, but the content breaks every boundary of political normality. Donald Trump declared Portland a "war ravaged city," called on his "Secretary of War ...
At the Evo A. DeConcini Courthouse in Tucson, a massive concrete structure on Congress Street, a decision was made on Thursday that determines the fate of almost seventy children ...
It is an image that carried symbolic power for many in the summer of 2020: FBI agents in plain clothes kneeling during a demonstration in Washington - a quiet signal, an attempt to de-escalate amid ...
It is a number that makes you sit up and take notice: 17 percent of Americans today describe themselves as democratic socialists. 83 percent reject this. For decades, the term “socialism” in ...
It is a sentence that shatters everything one would expect from an entrepreneur who belongs to the most powerful figures in the tech world: Peter Thiel, billionaire, Trump supporter, co-founder of Palantir, declares ...
It is shortly after eight o'clock in the morning when traffic on US Route 1 in Hyattsville, Maryland, slows down. Car horns, congestion, the routine of a commuter corridor
The indictment against James Comey reads like a document from an authoritarian handbook: barely two pages, brought by a newly installed Trump loyalist with no notable prosecutorial experience, and yet a thunderclap.
On September 25, 2025, an incident occurred in New York that is almost unbearable in its brutality - and yet symptomatic of what Donald ...
Pete Hegseth, Trump’s defense secretary, has thrown the American armed forces into a state of shock. On the minister’s orders, dozens of generals and admirals from around the world are to gather next week at a base in Virginia ...