"The Night of Sixty Votes - How the Senate Ended America’s Longest Shutdown"
It was just before 11 p.m. in Washington when John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, entered the chamber to applause. The last senator whose vote mattered that night ...
Judge Immergut Halts Trump’s Troop Deployment - A Ruling as a Warning Against the March Toward Martial Law
Portland – After many hours of waiting, we were glad about this ruling – a shared struggle that has, for now, found a good end. Of course, it can ...
How Voters Withdrew Their Trust From Trump and Democrats Triumphed - Today Could Get Even Worse
It was the first major test of sentiment since Donald Trump returned to the White House - and it ended in a crushing defeat for the president. The Democrats won the gubernatorial ...
A New Beginning - Abigail Spanberger Makes History in Virginia
Richmond - It was an evening that will go down in Virginia’s history books. Democrat Abigail Spanberger, 46, soundly defeated Republican Lt. Governor Winsome Earle-Sears - becoming the first woman to hold...
Between Brooklyn and Albany - New York’s Election as a Mirror of American Times
New York - On this Tuesday, the largest city in the United States is deciding not only on its next mayor but also on a political self-conception that reaches far beyond the borders of ...
The Week of Decision - Trump's Tariffs Before the Highest Court of the United States
Donald Trump has turned the tariff policy of the United States into an art of exercising power. Where previous presidents negotiated, he threatens. Where others used sanctions or diplomacy, he swings the tariff hammer ...
When the State Lets Its People Go Hungry - and a Republican Politician in a Pickleball Costume Shows the Better America
Desperation that shows up in grocery lists - that is how this November begins for millions of Americans. In Miami, Christine Tully sits at her kitchen table and writes down, as always, what she needs: chicken, ...
Federal Judges Order Trump Administration to Continue Food Assistance
Boston/Washington – Two federal courts ruled almost simultaneously on Friday that the Trump administration must continue payments for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) during the government shutdown. Judges Indira Talwani ...
America’s Hunger Verdict
Boston – Outside, rain beats down on the asphalt of Boston, inside a nation waits for a verdict. In the courtroom of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, ...
Dancing Like a Clown - While More Than 14 Million Americans Are Acutely Malnourished
There are people the course of history could do without - and sometimes such a person dances on the edge of an abyss. Donald Trump, 79, created such a scene in Malaysia: a president who ...
Operation Shockwave - Trump’s Major Overhaul at ICE
Washington is once again on the brink of an earthquake - this time not in the White House, but in the gray corridors of the agency that Donald Trump has turned more than any other into his personal instrument ...
Trump Now Has Access to California’s National Guard - and Newsom Lost Because He Entered the Wrong Social Media Battle
It was a ruling that struck Sacramento like a thunderclap - and was celebrated in Washington as a return to old power dynamics. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...
The Judgment on Oregon - and the Silence of the Constitution
A few moments ago, the 9th U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled in the case Trump v. State of Oregon, Case No. 25-17108, that Donald Trump may formally assume command of the Oregon National ...
It Felt Like War - Trump’s Border Troops and the State of Emergency at Home
The air on Chicago’s South Side has been thick with anger – and tear gas – since Tuesday afternoon. In a residential neighborhood where children were playing and people were running errands, agents of the U.S. Border Patrol ...
America’s Deadly Friday – How Mississippi Became a Mirror of a Broken Culture
It began as so many weekends in the American South begin - with floodlights, music, and homecoming. Homecoming: the ritual of return, pride in one’s school, the attempt to hold a fractured ...
The Night of Horror in Mississippi
What began as a weekend of joy ended in blood and disbelief. We have deliberately refrained from showing images, because the scenes on site exceed the limits of what is bearable ...
The President and His Standstill - How a Nation Slowly Sinks into Chaos
In Washington, there is once again that silence louder than any argument. It drifts through the long halls of Congress, through the empty metro stations of the capital, through the closed gates of the national parks ...
The President and the Rebellion That Never Happened - Trump’s Troop Surge in Chicago Halted
It is late in the federal courthouse at the Everett McKinley Dirksen building in Chicago. The benches are full, the air is heavy, and the words Judge April M. Perry speaks ...
Voices Against Fear
It was one of those evenings when a city begins to breathe, even though everything looks as if it were holding its breath. At dusk, hundreds of people ...
The Night a Court Defended Democracy - and a President Crossed the Line
It was shortly after midnight when Judge Karin Immergut picked up the phone. Outside in Portland, clouds of tear gas hung over a single city block, while new deployment orders were already being sent out in Washington.
A President Against the Constitution – Trump Defies Court Ruling and Sends California’s Soldiers to Oregon
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 ...
The Violence in Portland - It Comes Solely From the Trump Regime
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 ...
Energy Before People - How Trump Uses the Shutdown as a Lever for Oil, Gas and Coal
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 Dress Rehearsal for the Culture War: How Hegseth Politically Reshapes the US Military - and Trump Exhorts His Generals
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 ...
Meeting of Generals in the Bunker of Vanities - Why Trump’s Summit With Hegseth Is Doomed Before It Begins
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 ...
Portland as a Battlefield of Lies - Trump’s Staging of an Internal Enemy
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 ...
The Big Lie of Portland II - Trump's Threat, Fox's Images and the Truth on the Street
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 ...
ICE agent points gun at bystanders during arrest in rush-hour traffic - The 8 minutes of madness
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
Blood at the Border: The Attack on the ICE Facility in Dallas That Destroyed Lives and Inflamed a Nation
The September sun had barely begun to rise over the Dallas skyline when, at 6 a.m. on Wednesday, the first shots rang out, shattering the morning calm with a staccato rhythm of violence ...
Breakdown at the Negotiating Table - Trump’s Cancellation with Schumer and Jeffries Drives the US Toward Shutdown
Donald Trump has once again shown how he understands politics: not as a search for compromise but as a staging of power. Only one day after announcing a meeting with the leading Democrats in Congress, Chuck Schumer ...
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