USAID is dead - up to 14 million could follow
It was a moment of self-congratulation in Washington. Marco Rubio, Secretary of State under Donald Trump, stood before the cameras and announced with a satisfied look the end of USAID ...
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.” ...
The Silent Subsidy Model - How the Government Rewards Corporations and Punishes Workers
There is a quiet truth about America’s labor market that is never spoken in campaign ads or stump speeches: The most successful, most profitable companies in the country are having their workforces subsidized by the government - through Medicaid, ...
A Triumph Full of Fractures – Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Passes the Senate
Washington, July 1, 2025 – In the midst of a stifling July heat, after a sleepless night of legislative wrangling, the US Senate today passed President Donald Trump’s central legislative project of tax breaks ...
The Shadows of the Lie – Pam Bondi, Epstein, and the Promise of Horror
Washington, summer 2025. The world has grown accustomed to many impositions. But sometimes there are sentences that appear out of nowhere and carve themselves into the public consciousness like a scratch on glass ...
California's Fields Lie Empty - Trump's Raids Drive Farmworkers to Flee and Farmers to Ruin
Oxnard, California - Lisa Tate stands at the edge of her strawberry field, her gaze drifting across rows of ripe fruit glistening in the California summer sun - untouched, unharvested, on the verge of decay.
A Farewell in Tears – When USAID Was Silenced
It was a quiet yet powerful protest, carried by respect, sorrow, and anger: two former U.S. presidents and a rock star bid farewell on Monday in an emotional video call to the staff of the U.S. Agency for International Development ...
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 ...
"Victory 45-47" - The Scent of Democratic Decay
There was a time when American politics smelled of burnt ideals, of cold coffee in Congress or the quiet sweat of responsibility. Today, it smells like "Victory 45-47" - a golden olfactory revelation from the House of Trump ...
Our investigation confirms it: Trump opens the gates for Putin’s banks - a break with the West
Washington - Our investigation has now definitively confirmed it: The Trump administration has eased key sanctions against Russian banks, including Gazprombank, Sberbank, and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation ...
38 Arrested in Protests Against Trump’s “Big Ugly Bill” – Activists Carry Coffin Props into Capitol
Washington, D.C. – In a powerful protest against Donald Trump’s controversial tax and spending bill – the so-called “Big Ugly Bill” – 38 demonstrators were arrested at the U.S. Capitol on Monday ...
Trump’s New Decree Threatens Critics with Denaturalization, Deportation, and Penalties - Important for Tourists Too
Washington, D.C. – Anyone visiting or living in the United States should now think twice before speaking out. A new memo from the U.S. Department of Justice under President Donald Trump is causing global outrage: ...
When the President Grabs a Marker - Trump Scolds Fed Chair with a Sharpie
Washington, D.C. – In the history of American presidencies, there have been many unusual messages - on letterhead, in tweets, as margin notes on legislative drafts. But what Donald Trump just sent to the Chairman of the U.S. Federal ...
To Protect Kilmar Garcia from Trump - A Nation in a State of Legal Emergency
Nashville, Tennessee - A man remains in prison. Not because he is guilty. Not because he wants to flee. But because the justice system ...
The Quiet Revolution – Why We Should Celebrate Pride Without Rewriting History
Pride Month is coming to an end – and perhaps you barely noticed that it had begun. This year has been noticeably quiet: no rainbow-colored logos from major corporations, ...
One Witness, Many Contradictions - How the Trump Administration Squandered Credibility in the Case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Washington / Nashville - This is a case that long ago transcended legal questions - it has become a symbol for how a government deals with law, truth, and human life. Construction worker Kilmar Abrego Garcia ...
The Cheeseburger State – How Trump's Administration Deep-Fries the Law
There is political communication. There is propaganda. And then there is what the White House is publishing these days – a mixture of fast-food aesthetics, authoritarian commands, and post-ironic absurdity
In the Shadow of the Cross – The Crucifixion Murder in Arizona and the Dark Mission of Adam Christopher Sheafe
It was a scene of biblical cruelty, but it did not take place two thousand years ago in Jerusalem – it happened in the spring of 2025 in the Arizona desert. An elderly pastor, William "Bill" Schonemann, 76 years old, ...
When the Money Dries Up – How Priscilla Chan’s School Project Ended and 400 Children Were Left Behind
East Palo Alto, California – It was a promise born from the idea that wealth brings responsibility. When Priscilla Chan, pediatrician and wife of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, established a school for disadvantaged children in 2016 ...
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 ...
"Our hands aren't clean either" - How Trump recalibrated America's moral compass
It was an interview straight out of a Machiavellian stage play: two people on the set - Maria Bartiromo, a Fox News veteran known for her sharp rhetoric, and Donald J. Trump, the president of rearview mirrors and distortions ...
Holy Trumpus of the Latter Days – How JD Vance Is Rewriting the Gospel of White Salvation
Sometimes history is not written but barked into existence. Saturday was one of those days. JD Vance, Vice President of the United States and a passionate virtuoso of right-wing rhetoric, picked up his pen
Blind Flight Into the Storm - How the Pentagon Is Cutting Off the World's Weather Vision
It is a quiet retreat with enormous consequences: Starting June 30, the U.S. Department of Defense will cease sharing its satellite data with scientists and weather services ...
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: ...
Vacation in the Shadow of Sharia - How the Taliban Are Opening Afghanistan to Tourists
Kabul, June 2025 - By motorcycle, camper van, bicycle, or scheduled flights from Istanbul and Dubai, they are arriving: curious travelers from Europe, adventure-seekers from Asia, globetrotters with GoPros and visas in their passports ...
The Forgotten of the Empire - How Trump's Deportation Machine Is Tearing Iranian Families Apart
New Orleans, Portland, Basile - they are quiet places, far removed from the centers of power in Washington. And yet these days, they lie at the heart of a policy that strikes with full force.
Alligators in the Service of Deterrence - How the US Department of Homeland Security Has Lost All Sense of Proportion
Just a few hours ago, an image appeared on the official X account of the US Department of Homeland Security (@DHSgov): Four alligators lined up in formation, each wearing a cap with the white letters "ICE
Trial of strength in the Senate – Trump’s tax gift is at risk of collapsing within his own party
It is Saturday evening in Washington, and the Senate is still lit. No ceremonial act, no state visit - but a political ballet of nerves where every vote counts. While President Donald Trump ...
Swamp of Shame – Protests Against the New Deportation Camp “Alligator Alcatraz”
Ochopee, Florida – It was a hot, oppressive day in the Everglades as hundreds of people gathered along the Tamiami Trail ...
A State Without Mercy – How ICE Arrested a Six-Year-Old Boy With Leukemia
Los Angeles, May 2025 – It was a day like so many in the labyrinth of American immigration bureaucracy – functional, overcrowded, emotionless ...
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