"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 ...
"A President in a Chorus of Boos - Trump's Stadium Appearance Ends in Resounding Discontent"
It was planned as a triumphal march and ended as a lesson in political reality. (See video footage) Donald Trump, the first sitting president since Jimmy Carter to attend a regular NFL game, appeared on Sunday ...
The Invented Proximity – How the AfD Promotes a “Trump Advisor” Who Does Not Actually Exist
It is an image meant to have an effect: two men, two suits, the US flag in the background, and above it in large letters: “Thank you, Mr. Bruesewitz! Social media advisor to US President Trump.” ...
A Morning in Little Village – Gunfire, Pepper Spray, and a Child in the Brutality of Operation Midway Blitz
It was just past noon when the first sirens wailed through the streets of Little Village. People ran out of shops, doors slammed shut, and a tense silence settled over 26th Street – ...
Disinformation about the “U.S. Soldiers at the Food Bank”
It sounded like a grotesque twist amid the American budget dispute: “U.S. Army refers its soldiers in Germany to the food bank.” Several German and British media outlets, as well as MSN News ...
Faith, Power and Possession Thinking – JD Vance and the Limits of Religious Freedom in His Own Home
Sometimes the state of a government reveals itself not in its laws but in the side remarks of its leading figures. JD Vance, Vice President of the United States, on a stage in Mississippi, ...
“The Moment Feels Like 1939”
It was a speech (see video recording) that will go down in history - not because of its content, but because of its tone. Pete Hegseth, Trump’s war minister, stood before representatives of the arms industry at the National War ...
Hunger in the Shadow of Pets – When America’s Poorest Can No Longer Feed Themselves or Their Animals
There may currently be occasional delays in our reporting - we are also actively involved in supporting relief efforts for people and animals in need. We therefore ask for understanding ...
Bad Judges, Bad Friends - The Supreme Court Slows Hunger Aid as Orbán Is Courted in Washington
Washington – The events are unfolding rapidly today, and it has become a bitter day for millions of Americans who rely on food assistance. The Supreme Court of the United States ruled on Friday evening, in an emergency ...
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 ...
Appeals Court Rejects Trump Administration - Now the Supreme Court Is Asked to Halt SNAP Payments
It was a legal confrontation that, in its speed, surprised even experienced observers. Within just a few hours of the Trump administration’s emergency motion, the appeals court in Boston ruled that the full benefits ...
Trump’s Refusal to Give Bread to the Poor
Boston – A president who moves billions like play money declares a state of emergency for his own people. While families wait in the cold outside food distribution centers, lawyers in Trump’s Justice Department argue ...
The Donfather – An Offer That Humanity Shouldn’t Be Able to Refuse
Washington – When Donald Trump speaks, it often sounds as if Vito Corleone himself were running the American state – only without charm, logic, or respect for reality. “The Donfather” rules over an empire of fear, Fox News ...
"If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison - myself included."
Washington - There are sentences that are not analysis but confession. Steve Bannon spoke this one with that peculiar mixture of defiance and fatalism that makes his appearances so ominous ...
A Stage of the Deluded – The Patriot Awards as the Holy Megalomania of an Unrestrained America – Wow, We Feel Sick...
There are shows you attend after not eating for at least eight hours. Not because you want to fast – but because the very thought of what awaits you makes your stomach turn ...
“The court will not hesitate to enforce compliance by all means available”
Washington – It is one of those decisions that will go down in the history of American separation of powers. John J. McConnell Jr., Chief Federal Judge of the U.S. District Court for the State of Rhode Island, has ordered ...
The Health Secretary Who Fled as a Man Collapsed in the Oval Office - Trump Stares Blankly
It was a scene (see video) that will likely burn itself into the nation’s memory. During a new announcement in the Oval Office, a man in the background collapsed. No sound ...
One Block from the Abyss - How Trump Is Rebuilding America’s Immigration Justice. An Investigative Report from Hell
One block away they stand, crowded together, freezing, papers in hand. Men, women, children - migrants who have come for routine hearings, as the law requires ...
Standstill in the Sky - Total Chaos in the Clouds and on the Ground
Washington - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has announced that beginning Friday morning, it will reduce air traffic across 40 major markets in the country by ten percent. Officially, it says this is about safety. In truth, ...
The Guilty Without Names - How Republicans Explain Their Defeats Without Looking at the Man in the Mirror
Washington - It was a day of speechlessness, a day of excuses and evasions. Hardly were the votes in Virginia and New Jersey counted when the feverish search for culprits began within the Republican Party ...
The Price of Cynicism - How FIFA Gilds Trump's and Its Own Contempt for Humanity While Continuing to Forget the Dead
Miami - It sounds like a satire on the state of the world: FIFA, that billion-dollar syndicate of officials, corporations, and statesmen, has announced the creation of a "Peace Prize" - and intends ...
A Morning in Chicago - When a Daycare Becomes a Crime Scene
Chicago - It was just after seven in the morning. Children were laughing as they ran through the glass doors of the Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion Early Learning Center, a bilingual preschool in the northern part of the city, ...
The Day of Reckoning - The Supreme Court Reviews Trump’s Tariffs, and the Ground Is Shaking
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 ...
Invitation to Nowhere - How Trump's MAGA Movement Gives the AfD an Illusion of Importance
Washington - It sounds like big politics but is really just a symbolic gesture: Republican Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, a loyal voice of the MAGA movement, has announced that she will host a "Conference of Patriotic Forces" in Washington in December ...
The Man Who Elected Himself - A Serious Satirical Reflection on Last Night
It was the night when Donald Trump, for the first time since his return to office, realized that even a king in a golden palace can lose - especially ...
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 ...
Zohran Mamdani crowns the Democrats’ triumph - and becomes mayor of New York City
New York - It was more than an election. After the Democrats’ victories today in Virginia and New Jersey, this success is more than a moment of renewal. Zohran Mamdani, 34 years old, ...
The Second Woman – Mikie Sherrill Also Makes History in New Jersey
Montclair – On a night that carries political significance far beyond the borders of New Jersey, Democrat Mikie Sherrill decisively defeated Republican Jack Ciattarelli ...
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...
The Shadows of Justice - How Trump’s Administration Undermined the Appointment Clause of the Constitution
Washington - Behind the walls of the federal courts, a silent yet momentous struggle is taking shape - one that reaches deeper than any single trial. It concerns the very foundation of American separation ...
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