Investigative Journalism
Five days before stopgap funding for the Department of Homeland Security expires, Washington once again faces a standstill. Democrats are tying their approval of a new spending bill to clear conditions: visible identification for officers, ...
At the National Prayer Breakfast, a long-standing gathering that is actually intended to serve religious reflection and bipartisan understanding, Donald Trump once again demonstrated how little room remains for restraint in his political communication ...
An hour into the cabinet meeting, seven members of the administration had already delivered their remarks. Special envoys and the departments of finance, commerce, health, housing, energy, and the environment spoke one after ...
While the shots in Minneapolis were still echoing and videos were documenting the horrific death of Alex Pretti at the hands of a federal officer, the White House opened its doors on Saturday evening for an exclusive ...
Donald Trump crossed a line over the weekend that, even in the long history of American power politics, has rarely been practiced so openly. Eight European countries are to be hit with a flat ten percent import tariff starting in February, ...
During a walk-through of the Ford plant in Dearborn, Michigan, Donald Trump is hit by a shout from the crowd. A man yells “protector of pedophiles” at him, a direct reference to the ongoing dispute over the Epstein ...
Donald Trump speaks as if Venezuela’s oil were already fully in American hands. But behind this demonstrative certainty lies a problem that cannot be solved by decree. A substantial portion ...
While one device after another is unveiled at CES in Las Vegas, the golden smartphone from Donald Trump’s orbit remains invisible. Trump Mobile had announced a market launch ...
Hardly had the U.S. Department of Justice released new files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case in late December 2025 when a race began online for supposed shortcuts to the truth. A simple flick of the mouse, people said, ...
Many readers now ask what happened to the Proud Boys – that far-right group that once served as Trump’s street army and played a central role in the storming of the Capitol. The answer is as unexpected ...
What is happening here is less a cultural policy decision than a display of power. A president who reshapes a board according to his own preferences, removes critics, installs loyal partisans and then allows himself to be honored by that very ...
Donald Trump claims that the United States has taken in more than 18 trillion dollars in just ten months because of his tariffs. He contrasts this figure with what he attributes to the Biden administration and presents ...
Human rights in 2025 – you fight alone, Brother, be sure of that. The times have shifted, cold with a star above them, and the world sways at the edge of a moral abyss. Everything dissolves ...
Australia has become the first country in the world to enact a law that bars children under 16 from accessing social networks ...
Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday, November 14, 2025, that eliminates tariffs on a wide range of products without replacement – beef, coffee, tropical fruits. Goods that ...
New York experienced on this Thursday the moment when the financial markets stopped lying to themselves. A day when the fantasy of the boundless power of artificial intelligence collided head-on with reality ...
Nebraska – It is the silent end of a land that once thought of itself as the world’s granary. While Washington debates budget numbers, the fields of the Midwest sink into debt ...
It was 10 a.m. in Washington when the Supreme Court session began. The case before the highest court of the United States that day could redefine the limits of presidential power ...
This article is the continuation of our investigation “How Trump Is Turning America’s Cattle Ranchers Against Him.” What is happening now confirms every suspicion that has been circulating for months across the prairies of Texas ...
America’s skies are thinning. Planes take off later, some not at all. And down below, in the glow of radar screens, sit men and women who have not been paid for weeks ...
There are moments when one wonders whether Donald Trump still knows what he is doing – or whether he has long since become his own contradiction. While his administration calls on farmers, ...
The American financial markets experienced on Friday a rare combination of overvaluation, nervousness, and political unpredictability. The trigger was not a macroeconomic shock but a message from the president ...
Donald Trump has once again postponed his latest round of tariffs - this time the announced 25 percent on medium and heavy-duty trucks. The import duties were actually supposed to take effect on October 1, together with ...
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 ...
A quarter point is small on paper and large in politics. The Federal Reserve has cut the key interest rate by 25 basis points - new range 4.00 to 4.25%, the first ...
The images from Brookland, Arkansas, are harrowing, even for us, and revealing at the same time: Hundreds of farmers, many with deep lines from sun and worry, crowd into a gymnasium ...
Our research has shown that Donald Trump's tariff policy is not just an ideological project but a gigantic, invisible tax on the US economy. Since January 2025, companies in the United States ...
Imagine you are Josh and Dewey Enlow. Every morning you stand on your auction lot in Oklahoma, surrounded by a sea of green giants - John Deere tractors as far as the eye can see.
It is Friday afternoon, August 30, 2025. Traders on Wall Street are staring at their screens as the news flashes across the tickers: The U.S. Court of Appeals ...
Donald Trump likes to present himself as a brilliant dealmaker. On August 22, 2025, he triumphantly declared that the United States had now "received ten percent of Intel for free" ...
Economic reality knows no patriotic slogans, no national anthems and no campaign stagecraft. It follows sober laws that operate as relentlessly as gravity. Whoever ignores them risks not only his own downfall but drags entire economies down with him ...
What at first glance looks like the diagram of a fantasy role-playing game is in fact an attempt to bring order to a complex web of companies, ...
US inflation held steady at first glance in July - and yet the picture is anything but reassuring. While falling gasoline and food prices kept the inflation rate in check, ...
With a single stroke of the pen, Donald Trump has done what economists had been warning about for months – he has plunged the world into an economic state of emergency. As of Thursday at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time ...
Frenchtown, an unremarkable place with just under 2,000 residents in Missoula County in western Montana, exemplifies the rural West of the United States – and both the hope and the ...
More than six months after the start of Donald Trump’s second term, the American economy is showing a state that has little in common with the grandiose promises of a new “golden age.” The latest data paint a picture that ...
As the deadline for the introduction of new U.S. punitive tariffs on August 1 approaches, President Donald Trump is in the midst of frantic trade negotiations that could have significant worldwide effects.
The US economy faltered in the first half of 2025, and the turbulent zigzag moves of Donald Trump’s trade and tariff policy left deep marks on the growth figures. While gross domestic product rebounded in the spring after ...
It was a soaring flight that ended abruptly. Shortly after Donald Trump's election as president, the US dollar saw a sharp rise - driven by promises of economic renaissance, tax cuts, ...
It is a book that tells more than its contents. A Bible, bound in patriotism, infused with political calculation ...
It is perhaps the most explosive power struggle within the American financial system - and one that grows sharper with each passing week: Donald Trump ...
It was a single sentence that was enough to shake Wall Street: Donald Trump had “talked about firing the Fed chair.” He said nothing more at first - and yet it was enough to send the stock market ...
Donald Trump had hoped to bring China’s economy to its knees with punitive tariffs. But the reality reflected in the new figures from Beijing paints a different picture: despite tariffs of up to 145 percent in spring 2025, China’s economy continues to grow ...
It is a letter that only Donald Trump could write: pompous, aggressive, economically dangerous. In his latest message to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, the US president announced plans to raise tariffs on Canadian imports to 35% ...
It sounded like a promise from a bad TV commercial: "90 deals in 90 days." But what Donald Trump announced in April turned out three months later to be an empty threat ...
It begins with a letter. Printed on official White House stationery, dated July 7, 2025, signed with Donald J. Trump’s trademark thunderous signature. But what follows is not a diplomatic message, ...
It was a letter like a ransom note - with the letterhead of the White House, but the tone of a trade warrior on a personal vendetta. On July 7, 2025, Donald Trump, President of the United States, ...
Donald Trump is ramping up the pressure - relying once again on the familiar mix of threats, ultimatums, and public displays of power. By Wednesday, all countries that trade ...
Frankfurt – It is the largest trade relationship in the world - and it is on the brink. On Monday, the European Union expects to learn whether U.S. President Donald Trump will make good ...
Washington - Donald Trump has never made a secret of the fact that he doesn’t care much for international guests - and on July 3, 2025, he cemented that stance once again.