Die Tränen von Cicero
Cicero, Illinois – Der Morgen begann wie ein gewöhnlicher Tag. Rafael Veraza, 33, war mit seiner Frau und seiner einjährigen Tochter auf dem Weg zu Sam’s Club, einem Großmarkt westlich…
The Hunger Remains – Supreme Court Extends SNAP Blockade as the End of the Shutdown Appears in Sight
Washington – It was a single sentence from the highest court in the land, yet its impact reaches millions: The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended the order blocking the payment ...
The Eight Who Learned Nothing
Eight votes were enough to end the longest government shutdown in American history. Eight votes that led the country out of paralysis - and at the same time plunged it deeper into self-forgetfulness ...
Deported, Returned, Punished – The Case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and the Moral Bankruptcy of the American Rule of Law
Greenbelt, Maryland – It is a case that runs like a crack through the foundation of American justice. Kilmar Abrego Garcia, husband, father, worker – and a symbol of a system ...
The Red Line of Belgrade – How Serbia’s Youth Stops the Sellout to Kushner
Belgrade – It was a quiet but unmistakable uprising. Thousands of young Serbians formed a human chain on Tuesday around the destroyed military headquarters in the center of Belgrade – that memorial ...
Goodbye, Spaghetti – The Last Meal of a Nation
There are political decisions that change the course of the world. And then there are tariffs on pasta. Donald Trump apparently confused the two. In a country that once reached the moon, ...
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 Price of Agreement - How Five Votes in the Senate Ended America’s Longest Shutdown
It was a late Sunday evening when the board in the Capitol lit up: 60 to 40 votes - the threshold had been crossed. After 41 days of paralyzing deadlock, the Senate had decided to reopen the government ...
Zohran Mamdani: “I would order the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu”
New York – The statement by New York City’s newly elected mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has drawn international attention. Mamdani declared in several interviews that he would order the arrest of Israeli Prime ...
The Price of Harvest – How Trump’s Policies Pushed America’s Farmers into the Abyss and Death
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 ...
Trump Freezes the Bread - America’s Moral Low Point
Washington - While millions of Americans do not know how they will pay for their food this month, Donald Trump’s administration is once again turning to the Supreme Court of the United ...
The Pardon of the Companions - Trump's Dangerous Game with History
Washington - It was an act of breathtaking symbolism and political audacity at the same time: Donald Trump has, on the night before Monday, pardoned those men and women who, five ...
"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 ...
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