A Country That Hangs Up - Emergency Call into the Void
It was the day after the rain, and the rain was no longer rain but memory. Memory of the roar of the water that swallowed houses, tore open roads, swept away lives.
The Gardener Who Wants to Fight Terror - Trump's Newest Security Chief Is 22, Loves Patriotic T-Shirts, and Was Questioned by Police Over a Teenage Drama
Sometimes the White House writes stories that even Netflix would reject. One of them begins in Kentucky, passes through a patriotically decorated college campus, brushes up against a police report involving a pubescent jealousy drama ...
What Is Chuck Schumer Hiding? - New Questions About Old Donations from the Epstein Network
Five years have passed since the public last seriously discussed the donation ties between Chuck Schumer and Jeffrey Epstein - and yet the affair now casts a larger shadow than ever in light of new political tensions ...
Power Without Compassion - Trump's Global and Domestic Politics of Coldness
While medications run out in the health stations of Monrovia and more and more young women in rural Senegal face unplanned pregnancies, Donald Trump invites guests to lunch ...
Between Law and Repression - Why the Hannah Dugan Case Is a Lesson in Trump's Judicial Battle
It was a spring day in Milwaukee when Judge Hannah Dugan left the courtroom - but she did not do so as an untouched representative of justice, rather as a defendant before a federal court ...
Uncoordinated, unyielding, unclear - Trump between Ukraine, agriculture, and ideology
Washington, July 8, 2025 – It was one of those meetings that, in the Trump era, are more than just routine government business: a political stage play, a display of power, a balancing act between improvised strategy ...
The President, the Cabinet, Tariff Madness, and the Shadow of Epstein – Trump’s Administration Under Pressure, in Harmony with Netanyahu
Washington, July 8, 2025 – It was a day that, even by the hyperactive standards of the Trump era, delivered an exceptional level of intensity: a cabinet meeting at the White House, a visit from Israel marked by geopolitical weight, ...
The Children the River Took – Over 100 Dead After Texas Flood Disaster, Including 27 From a Summer Camp
It is a catastrophe of biblical proportions - and a moment in which the entire country holds its breath: After the devastating floods in Texas, ...
Guadalupe in Tears - The deadliest flood disaster in Texas in decades shakes an entire nation - Nearly 70 dead so far
It was still before sunrise when the sky over the Texas Hill Country broke open - not with light, but with water. Within 45 minutes, the Guadalupe River rose by eight meters ...
Texas Underwater – How a Summer Camp Became a Death Trap How the Trump Regime Failed
On the night of July 4 to 5, the sky over the Texas Hill Country turned into a black abyss. Within just a few hours, as much rain fell as usually does in several months.
When Evil and Stupidity Celebrate Themselves for Mass Misery
Washington – You have to let this scene melt on your tongue: a group photo with wide grins, proud faces, and triumphant thumbs. In the center: a sign that reads “ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL ACT.” ...
Trump’s Monster Bill Under Fire - Hakeem Jeffries Blocks Vote with Hours-Long Protest Speech
Washington - It was a spectacle that will likely go down in the annals of resistance: In the early morning hours of July 3, 2025, Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic Minority Leader in the House of Representatives, took the floor ...
Secret Honorarium in a Horse’s Name - How Kristi Noem Enriched Herself With Political Donations
From the very beginning, everything seemed discreet - perhaps too discreet. A shell company in Delaware, named after one of her horses. A dubious nonprofit organization with barely any discernible purpose. And finally: $80,000 that flowed directly to Kristi Noem’s ...
Applause, Disgust, and Alaska - How Lisa Murkowski First Saved and Then Scolded Trump’s Monster Bill
Washington - It was a political performance of rare ambiguity, staged in the solemn marble of the U.S. Senate. On Tuesday afternoon, precisely at 2:42 p.m., Lisa Murkowski cast her vote - “Yes.” ...
Setback in the Senate - Trump Fails to Push Through Medicaid Exclusion
Washington - It is a rare moment in the politically charged climate of the United States: The Republican-dominated Senate has turned against a central measure of President Donald Trump ...
The Double Standard of the Immigration Debate – Marco Rubio and the Shadows of the Past
It is the biographical details that can shake the political memory of a nation – especially when they stand in stark contradiction to one’s own demands. Republican Senator Marco Rubio, a vocal proponent of strict immigration laws ...
The Price of Integrity – How Thom Tillis Tried to Bring Down Trump’s Tax Bill and Failed His Party
Washington, June 29, 2025 – It was a moment of rare clarity in an era of political fog. On the night from Saturday to Sunday, the U.S. Senate voted 51 to 49 to move forward on a piece of legislation that changes everything: ...
The New Justice Scandal – Trump Administration Fires Lead Prosecutors in Capitol Investigation
Washington, June 28, 2025 – In a drastic move that shakes confidence in the independence of the American justice system, the US Department of Justice on Friday dismissed at least three prosecutors who played a key role ...
Trade War and Civil Liberties – How Trump Humiliated Canada and Overturned America’s Civil Rights in One Week
Washington, June 27, 2025 – It was a Friday of seismic upheaval: while Donald Trump, at an impromptu press conference, declared it “his most successful week ...
Trump’s Return to the Offensive – How the President Unblocked His Agenda Overnight
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, ...
Blow to Trump: Senate rules key Medicaid cut inadmissible - more conflict looms
A central element of Donald Trump's heavily touted legislative package of tax cuts, spending reductions, and border enforcement has been thrown into doubt: ...
A Turning Point in New York – Zohran Mamdani and the Trembling of the Democrats
New York, June 26, 2025 – It was a political earthquake that shook not only the streets of New York but threw the entire Democratic Party into turmoil: Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old self-declared democratic ...
"The bomb didn’t fall on Iran - but on Donald’s own truth"
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 ...
A State with a Black Mask - How Narciso Barranco Became the Face of a Repressive America
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 ...
A Suspicion Is Enough – Ohio Allows ICE to Hunt Migrants and Tourists in Public Spaces
It is a law that seems to come from another era – a time when rights were not protected but suspected. In Ohio, the Republican-dominated Senate has approved the bill S.B. 172. A law that allows the U.S. Immigration and Customs ...
Faith on the Wall - Texas Requires Schools to Display the Ten Commandments
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 ...
White Supremacy as an Exam Assignment – How a Constitutional Essay Revealed a University’s Moral Bankruptcy
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 ...
B-2 bombers deployed to Guam - US moves closer to the front of the Middle East conflict
Washington / Guam - The United States is deploying strategic stealth bombers of the B-2 Spirit type to the Pacific island of Guam. The move comes at a time of rising tensions in the Middle East ...
A Wrong Name, a Real Scandal – JD Vance Insults California and Pours Fuel on the Fire
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 ...
America Stepped Back - When a President Forced the Country to Look in the Mirror
It began with a head. Not a symbol made of marble, but a piece of latex, modeled after the face of the man who was soon to once again become the most powerful person in the Western world. In October 2024, ...
In the Name of Order – How a U.S. Appeals Court Gave Donald Trump Free Rein Over California’s National Guard
Los Angeles – It was a precedent with a warning: On June 19, 2025, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in the case Newsom v. Trump (Docket No. 25‑3727) that President Donald Trump may, for now, retain control over the California National Guard troops ...
"Not on Our Grounds" - Dodgers Deny ICE Agents Access to Stadium
Los Angeles, June 19, 2025 - It was a morning full of symbolism. Shortly after sunrise, several SUVs and transport vans carrying agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) drove into a parking area near the famous Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles ...
"Trust Me" – Trump's Quiet Messages Amid the Raging MAGA Civil War
Washington, June 19, 2025 – In a White House that currently resembles a petting zoo with suspected rabies more than a presidential command center, a discreet damage control operation is underway: ...
The Apostles of Power – How the Faith Office in Washington Became a Gateway for Christian Extremism - Confront It Like the Ku Klux Klan
Some movements do not arrive with marching bands, but with prayer. Quiet, ghostly, organized. The so-called New Apostolic Reformation - or NAR - is such a movement. Not a church denomination, not a traditional sect, but ...
Fractures in the Cult – How Trump's Iran Strategy Is Splitting the MAGA Movement
A deep rift is cutting through the heart of the MAGA movement. As President Donald Trump intensifies pressure on Iran, publicly calling for Tehran’s “unconditional surrender” and considering direct U.S. support for Israel, resistance is suddenly forming ...
A President Against the Principle of Separation of Powers – How Trump Is Expanding the Use of the National Guard in Violation of the Constitution
San Francisco – It is a historic legal battle, the likes of which the United States has not seen in decades. Before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, President Donald Trump is defending his controversial deployment ...
Trump Rips Into Hegseth: Parade “Too Nice,” Soldiers “Too Friendly”
It was supposed to be a thunderclap of power. A triumphal march of steel, discipline, and deadly serious expressions. But instead: waving, smiling, swaying. And all of it – in front of empty stands. Donald Trump is furious.
Authoritarian System - How VA Doctors Are Now Allowed to Discriminate Against Veterans Based on Political Beliefs
What appears to be a technical adjustment in the administration of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is in truth a political breach of the dam. From now on, medical personnel there may refuse treatment ...
Birthday with a Seat Reservation - How Trump Got His Parade Booked Out and Emptied
Washington, June 16, 2025 – It was the big day of the big man. The Army turned 250, Trump 79 – and together they marched as if the nation were still intact. ...
Reckoning with a Breakdown of Control - How the LAPD Turned Its Force Against the People on June 14
It was a day that was supposed to go down in Los Angeles history - but not because of peaceful civic demonstrations or the strength of civil society. Instead, it was because of how the city ...
Political Double Murder in Minnesota – Surveillance Cameras Show Suspected Attacker Moments Before the Assault
It was a matter of seconds—seconds of silence that suddenly shook the entire political climate: In two sharply captured security camera images, a man in a dark uniform is seen, equipped with tactical gear, a flashlight, ...
"No King, No Servant" – America's Uprising Against Trump and the Shots Fired in Salt Lake City
It was a Saturday that won’t appear in any textbook, but will remain in people's hearts. Not because a president was overthrown – but because millions marched. They came...
The Parade of Embarrassment - How Trump Degraded the Military for His Birthday
Washington, June 14, 2025 – It wasn’t honors that rained down, but ridicule. The United States Army marched through the National Mall this Saturday - heavily armed, orchestrated, routine ...
Armed 57-Year-Old on the Run
In the early morning hours of June 14, 2025, Democratic Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed in their home in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. A few hours later, Senator John Hoffman ...
Deadly Manifesto – Attack on Democracy Shocks Minnesota
It is shortly after three in the morning when the silence in quiet Brooklyn Park, a suburb of Minneapolis, is shattered by gunfire. Just minutes later, two homes in two neighboring communities become the focus of a...
Deadly Attack on Democracy - Minnesota in Shock
It is an attack that changes everything: In the early morning hours of June 14, 2025, two elected representatives in Minnesota became the target of a brutal and apparently politically motivated act ...
“No King Shall Reign Here” – America’s Day of Civil Disobedience Against Trump
A republic holds its breath. On this Saturday, June 14 - the 250th anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Army, Flag Day, and Donald Trump’s 79th birthday - thousands of soldiers are ...
America on the Brink - "The attack was excellent," Trump said - and openly announced further strikes.
Pete Hegseth told the House Armed Services Committee that there are "concrete military plans to take over Greenland and Panama." Early Friday morning, Israel launched a massive strike on Tehran ...
A Blueprint for Fear – How Kristi Noem Turns Trump’s Immigration War Into a National Model – Highly Questionable Justification by the Appeals Court
While California continues to fight for its constitutional rights and the legal tug-of-war over the National Guard deployment drags on, a different picture emerges on the streets of Los Angeles – one of a government choosing escalation ...
California Temporarily Loses Control Over National Guard - Appeals Court Halts Breyer’s Ruling
SAN FRANCISCO – In a stunning move, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday temporarily halted a ruling by federal judge Charles R. Breyer (Case No.: State of California v. Trump et al., 3:25-cv-04172-CRB) that would have required President Donald Trump