Investigative Journalism
In Washington, armed National Guard soldiers patrol, heavily equipped, as one knows from crisis regions. Yet amid the machine guns and combat boots, a scene is revealed that could hardly ...
The USS Gravely, the USS Jason Dunham and the USS Sampson - three Aegis destroyers of the US Navy - plow through the Caribbean, accompanied by submarines and fighter jets. In Caracas, meanwhile, ...
There are moments when history exposes itself. 338 pages of transcript, we have read it in full, recorded under oath, were supposed to bring light into the darkness. Instead we are ...
The story of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is no longer just an individual case. It has become a symbol of how far the Trump administration is willing to go to enforce its immigration policy ...
Trisha Hope was never a fringe figure. In the world of Trumpism she belonged to the loud ones: self-proclaimed national delegate from Texas, permanent activist, chronicler and cheerleader all in one. Her book series “Just the Tweets” ...
Yesterday we had already reported that we are on our way to Baltimore - because of the upcoming court hearing in the case of Kilmar Garcia. Today we are experiencing how Donald Trump is ...
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" ...
The silence is deceptive. Anyone walking today through the streets of Portland, Berkeley, or Charlottesville no longer encounters the heated demonstrations that just a few years ago shaped the image of American cities ...
It is an old pattern that repeats itself with uncanny precision: Donald Trump feels threatened – and his first reaction is dehumanization. This time his anger is directed at Lisa Cook, ...
The story of Kilmar Abrego Garcia reads like a dystopian novel, yet it is bitter reality and reveals the shocking erosion of the rule of law at the heart of American democracy. While the Trump ...
Anyone traveling to the United States these days, whether as a tourist, business traveler, or even as a US citizen, should be prepared for a reality that hardly anyone speaks about openly ...
There are moments when the mask falls and the grimace behind it becomes visible. Moments when even the most skillful PR machinery can no longer conceal what has long been obvious: ...
These are sentences that sound like they come straight from the script of an authoritarian nightmare. Donald Trump, baseball cap pulled low over his face, conjures in a speech the images of Chicago and New York ...
It was a cool, sober sentence that shook the political power centers in Tallahassee and Washington: U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams of the Southern District of Florida on Thursday ordered the closure ...
It is an image that imprints itself indelibly into the chronicle of American democracy: heavily armed FBI agents carry empty boxes into the home of John Bolton in Bethesda, ...
It is August 21, 2025, three o'clock in the morning. While Orlando sleeps, the vehicles of the Florida Department of Transportation roll in. Their mission: the erasure of a rainbow. Not just any rainbow ...
Donald Trump has once again accomplished what no one thought possible: he has painted himself into the Olympus of the American tariff lords. Literally. In the West Wing of the White House ...
Donald Trump has done it again. He has rewritten the laws of physics. In his world it is not oil spills, plastic, or overfishing that drive whales onto the coasts, but wind turbines ...
Weeks of research have brought to light a shocking picture that in its scope even surpasses pessimistic forecasts. The United States is experiencing under the second Trump administration an unprecedented reversal of decades of environmental protection policy, ...
There are moments when one wonders whether Washington is still a capital or already a badly written Netflix series. Donald Trump has once again proven that he does not just blur the ...
America is no longer the country of enlightenment, not the country of free science, not the country that once defeated polio and smallpox with vaccines. It is a country ...
For a long time, we have documented the growing tensions between the federal government in Washington and the state of California only in passing, without placing the escalation at the center.
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 ...
A federal judge in Manhattan on Wednesday denied the government’s request to release the transcripts of a grand jury from the prosecution of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein ...
The acting U.S. Attorney for Nevada, Sigal Chattah, has decided not to prosecute Tom Alexandrovich. The decision is striking because the evidence is on the table and seven other defendants in the same complex are being prosecuted.
onald Trump, 79, president of the United States and walking permanent wave of world history, has done it again. In his inexhaustible mission to turn reality into a grotesque reality-TV format, he did not forget the name ...
In the annals of democratic degeneracy, the apotheosis of Andrew Bailey will be recorded as a turning point - that fatal moment when the last bastions of constitutional integrity capitulated before the altars of populist demagoguery ...
The morning of June 6, 2025, broke over Los Angeles like so many others before - golden and deceptively peaceful. But in the warehouses of Ambiance Apparel in the Fashion ...
There are moments that, in their simultaneity, seem almost surreal. In Washington Donald Trump leads European heads of state and government through the West Wing and proudly ...
It was a case that, even in the overheated atmosphere of present-day America, stands out like a signal flare. Nathalie Rose Jones, 50 years old, from Lafayette, Indiana, published ...
Identified Targets: Judges and Associated Attackers. This article provides a shortened yet still comprehensive analysis of the targeted use of Truth Social by U.S. President Donald Trump and his extremist networks to undermine democratic institutions, particularly the judiciary.
It was a picture for the history books: President Zelenskyy in a black suit instead of his usual military attire, surrounded by European heads of state and government who had rushed to Washington at lightning speed.
It is a Monday when the world looks to Washington - and yet hardly anyone seriously doubts that this summit rests on shaky ground. At the White House today, Europe’s top leaders are gathering to ...
What drives a president to cover the capital of his own country with soldiers from three different states? The answer does not lie in the officially cited reasons of crime and homelessness, but ...
A high-ranking Israeli cybersecurity official is arrested in Nevada, the charge is attempted sexual exploitation of a child. Court documents confirm the arrest, police records document the 10,000 dollar bail, his name appears on the ...
On a weathered wall in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, an ICE agent chases a dog wearing a Superman cape. The spray can has captured what a thousand diplomatic pens do not dare to write: the naked face of power ...
One must burn this image into memory: The President of the United States applauds a war criminal. Not hidden, not by accident - no, in front of rolling cameras, with the fervor of a groupie ...
There are symbols that are as American as baseball, Coca-Cola and "God Bless America" at every halfway patriotic barbecue. The bald eagle belongs to them. That is exactly what Donald Trump ...
A new international survey paints a merciless picture of Donald Trump’s global reputation. In most countries surveyed, distrust clearly prevails - and yet there are regions ...
As if Washington, D.C., were a parade-ready training ground and not the capital of a federal democracy, the White House is shifting the axis of power ever more toward the executive. The latest signal: ...
It was one of those grand, staged moments in which Donald Trump wanted to show the world that he was still the master of the stage. With the tone of a man who had just changed ...
Vladimir Putin grinned broadly as the B-2 bombers thundered overhead - American stealth bombers, once designed to keep Moscow’s imperial ambitions in check, now formed the honor guard for a man wanted by the International ...
There are moments when world politics is not decided in conference centers or at summits, but between a beer tap and a fireplace. Charlbury, Oxfordshire, a place where usually the fiercest battles are fought between “bitter” and “lager,” ...
In Anchorage, Alaska, temperatures on this Friday are just barely in the double digits - but politically it is a day when the thermometer climbs into the red zone. In just a few hours, US President ...
On Monday morning, Washington will not wake up but be rearranged. At several locations, signs read: "General cleaning from 10 a.m." A harmless phrase from city sanitation - that is how it sounds. Yet in recent days, the capital ...
It's a remarkable spectacle when one of Germany's largest daily newspapers documents a broadside from Washington - and essentially just lets it stand as is. The latest human rights report from the US State Department attests to ...
Donald Trump has reached a new low point in his political self-promotion - and that says something for a man who already sells Bibles with his name on them. The President of the United States ...
The images recall a war zone, yet it is Washington, D.C., in August 2025. Heavily armed National Guard members patrol in front of Union Station, Humvees block intersections, and in the early hours of August 14, 45 people are arrested ...
At first glance, the news seems technocratic: The president wants to make a Heritage Foundation economist, E. J. Antoni, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics - the apparatus that measures the temperature of the American labor market month after month ...
Washington is, in these August days, a place where the air crackles as if the city were under an invisible high voltage. Streets that are usually shaped by restaurant guests, tourists, and the bustling activity of the capital ...