A child at the front door
A five year old boy comes home from kindergarten, the car engine is still running, the driveway has been reached. What follows is not a misunderstanding, not a mix up, but an enforcement action. Federal agents take ...
Senior church leaders say the Trump administration lacks political direction
Three influential U.S. cardinals have admonished the Trump administration with unusually blunt words of conscience. In a joint statement, Blase Cupich, Robert McElroy, and Joseph Tobin emphasize that the foreign policy debate in Washington is losing its direction ...
The Exodus of the Lawyers - How the Death of Renee Good Is Tearing Apart the U.S. Justice System in Minnesota
In Minnesota, something is coming apart that long seemed stable. Quietly, but unmistakably, federal prosecutors are leaving their offices, clearing their desks, turning in their badges. Not for career reasons, not because they are ...
Second shooting, same city – Minneapolis slips deeper into a state of emergency
One week after the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, there has been another firearms incident involving federal agents in Minneapolis. On Wednesday evening, a federal agent wounded a man during an operation in the ...
A Civilian Aircraft as Camouflage – and the Red Line of the Law of War
The first deadly attack by the United States on a boat that the government described as a drug smuggling vessel did not begin with a recognizable military aircraft. It began with a plane that looked like a civilian aircraft ...
We had whistles. They had weapons. And now they are filming death
The final seconds of Renee Nicole Macklin Good are now captured not only in shaky cellphone videos from bystanders, but also in footage from the perspective of the ICE officer who fired the shots ...
One Dead, No Other Injuries – Police Chief Flatly Contradicts Trump’s Lies
The Minneapolis police chief, Brian O’Hara, has unequivocally rejected the White House’s account of today’s fatal ICE operation. According to police, Renee Nicole Good was the only person injured ...
The Open Threat - Stephen Miller, Greenland, and the Claim to a World Shaped by America Where Brown Specters Must Be Driven Out
What is now being said openly in Washington would, only a few years ago, have been considered a foreign policy taboo. Stephen Miller, one of Donald Trump’s most influential advisers, stated in a television interview ...
From Caracas to Manhattan – The day a president appears before a judge
On Monday, January 5, 2026, around midday, a process will unfold that has few parallels in the history of American criminal justice. Nicolás Maduro, president of Venezuela, and his wife ...
Innocent – How a Young Pilot in Ohio Disappeared into the Deportation System
Arturo Rafael Brito Goncalvez is 22 years old, a pilot in training, and from Venezuela. During the Christmas week, he suddenly found himself in detention. Arrested not during a check, not following a complaint, ...
When a plant closes, a city breaks apart – Lexington and the result of Trump’s policies – Thousands lose their jobs in January 2026
The cold hanging over Lexington, Nebraska, this winter does not come from the weather. It comes from the certainty that on January 20, 2026, something will end that carried this town for decades ...
Pam Bondi – In the Name of Transparency
It was an act of almost literary purity: an Epstein document package so clean, so free of incriminating names that even high gloss kitchen cleaners would be jealous. No Trump trace, no shadow, no speck of dust ...
Afterthought: Trump has the personality of an alcoholic – Susie Wiles said out loud what usually remains behind closed doors, but …
Rarely has a sitting White House chief of staff spoken so openly about a president, his closest circle, and the internal fault lines of an administration. Susie Wiles, previously known for discipline, control, ...
Kristi Noem Under Fire – A Hearing That Completely Escalated – And In The End Can Demand Only One Consequence: Resignation
You could sense as she entered the room that this hearing would not unfold routinely. Since Noem last appeared before Congress in May, the situation in America’s cities has ...
The boat, the video, further investigations and a President Trump who backpedals with a ridiculous lie
Donald Trump is backing away from his own promise, even though only a few days ago he claimed that releasing the video of the boat strike in the Caribbean would be “no problem.” Now he even denies ever having said ...
A minister under pressure - a video that allows no excuses and an admiral who loses all credibility
The day brought a series of statements that deepen the image of a defense secretary who has crossed boundaries - politically, militarily, and in matters of security. While Senate and House ...
The Defense Secretary Who Never Should Have Been Confirmed
Pete Hegseth was already a risk during his confirmation hearing, a political experiment that even parts of the Republicans accepted only through gritted teeth. A former television commentator who brought more headlines than trust and entered the position ...
The Second Strike - and a White House That Is Worryingly Under Pressure
The White House presents itself as determined. A Navy admiral acted “within his authority and the applicable laws” when he ordered a second strike against an alleged drug boat on September 2. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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., ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 - ...
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, ...
Everything is just fraud - The cult in the West Wing - How the White House sacrifices every reality to whitewash Trump
It was the moment that revealed everything about this administration: instead of seriously addressing the growing number of explosive Epstein emails, press secretary Karoline Leavitt stepped before the public and turned the ...
The Man Who Stayed Silent - and Who Said He Could Destroy Trump
There are moments when the past snaps back into the glaring light of the present, as if it had only been waiting to regain power over the present, the abyss of a man who ...
How Donald Trump Invented His Record Economy – An Investigative Report on a Grand Lie
We researched the total return of stocks in leading industrial nations. Germany is comparatively more stable - not a bad picture, but that of an aging yet resilient economy that, despite energy crises, ...
"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.