Investigative Journalism
It began with a scene one might mistake for satire: a man in a giraffe costume stands in front of the ICE building in Portland, singing Rod Stewart and laughing. Minutes later he is taken away by officers ...
The air on Chicago’s South Side has been thick with anger – and tear gas – since Tuesday afternoon. In a residential neighborhood where children were playing and people were running errands, agents of the U.S. Border Patrol ...
In the corridors of the Pentagon, one sound echoes above all others these days: the echo of its own fear. Where journalists once reported at every step on military strategies, foreign missions, ...
It is a global confrontation without cannons but with similar destructive power. What once served as a technocratic instrument of economic control - tariffs, visas, export restrictions - has long since become a weapon ...
Once upon a time there was a man who believed he could heal the American soul. Dr. Phil McGraw, the television psychologist with the fatherly frown and the warm Texan accent, who had ...
Washington these days resembles a besieged palace. In the corridors of the White House, where strategies were once forged, now reigns the silence of an administrative corpse. No budget, no trust, no sense ...
When you think you have already seen everything in research - people, situations, every document, every image, every boundary of state cruelty - there usually comes the moment that silences even the most ...
The patriotic Barbie of the Trump cabinet wanted to fly - but the airports of this nation just waved her off. Kristi Noem, the self-proclaimed border guardian with a permanent smile and a grip on the Bible, had a plan: ...
It began as so many weekends in the American South begin - with floodlights, music, and homecoming. Homecoming: the ritual of return, pride in one’s school, the attempt to hold a fractured ...
When Donald Trump’s Secretary of War Pete Hegseth talks about “standards,” it now sounds like a declaration of war on his own body mass. On Monday, the self-proclaimed fitness warrior proudly boasted that several members of the Texas National Guard ...
America is negotiating with itself. About whether equality remains a fundamental right - or a relic of a time when people still believed that history could mean progress ...
It takes a peculiar mixture of self-confidence in power and intellectual carelessness when an incumbent attorney general announces before rolling cameras that she will “take apart the entire Antifa.” Pam Bondi said it as if she were ...
It began quietly – with a flight across the Atlantic, a handshake in a London café, and an invitation no one in Westminster had expected. Nigel Farage, the former ...
It was cold, it was pouring rain, and yet none of the roughly one thousand people on Portland’s Burnside Bridge seemed to feel it that gray Sunday afternoon. Their bodies were painted ...
Twelve days of paralysis. Twelve days in which the most powerful country in the world disables its own institutions while hundreds of thousands of federal employees sit at home without pay ...
Russia once again attacked Ukraine’s power grid overnight - part of a systematically conducted campaign aimed at destroying the country’s energy infrastructure before the cold sets ...
What began as a weekend of joy ended in blood and disbelief. We have deliberately refrained from showing images, because the scenes on site exceed the limits of what is bearable ...
In the United States, the movement that once brought millions of people into the streets has almost disappeared - not because it failed, but because it was deliberately silenced ...
The American judiciary is at a boiling point. In the halls where once the whisper of dignity prevailed, there now echoes the muffled rumble of revolt. It is October 2025, ...
There are moments when loyalty doesn’t break but burns. The outburst of Laura Loomer, one of the loudest voices of the Trump movement, marks exactly such a moment ...
In Washington, there is once again that silence louder than any argument. It drifts through the long halls of Congress, through the empty metro stations of the capital, through the closed gates of the national parks ...
In the echoing corridors of the federal court in Maryland unfolds a drama that exposes the fault lines of American immigration policy with surgical precision. Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen ...
Donald Trump announced on Friday another decision that shakes the already overstretched structure of the global economy. Starting November 1, Chinese imports are to be hit with a 100 percent tariff - a move that can hardly ...
On Friday morning, the White House set in motion a step that shook the foundations of the public service: the beginning of mass dismissals of federal employees. What is officially called a “reduction in force” ...
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 ...
In Broadview, an unassuming suburb of Chicago, more was revealed in a single day about the political climate of the United States than in weeks of parliamentary debate. In front of an unremarkable building ...
There are nights when history takes a grotesque turn - and in this case, it takes the shape of frogs. While Washington argues about "uprisings" and "national security," ...
It was to be expected - and yet again a spectacle for the history books. While in Oslo the cameras were focused on a 58-year-old Venezuelan woman receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for her unwavering ...
Over Montgomery, Alabama, there hangs a strange heaviness these days. It is not the weather - it is the waiting. In a small house not far from Maxwell ...
It is late in the federal courthouse at the Everett McKinley Dirksen building in Chicago. The benches are full, the air is heavy, and the words Judge April M. Perry speaks ...
As the nation watches Chicago, where Donald Trump is having the deployment of the National Guard against demonstrators defended, a decision has just been handed down that reaches far ...
Sometimes I sit there, read the news, and wonder if maybe it’s me. Maybe I’m the last one who missed the memo. Maybe the new reality ...
What began as a serious legal dispute quickly turned into a farce in a Chicago courtroom, more reminiscent of a political slapstick show than a hearing on the legality of a military ...
It was a morning like any other in the White House - if you ignore the fact that the President of the United States nearly fell asleep during a two-hour press conference, insulted the press, ...
It was one of those evenings when a city begins to breathe, even though everything looks as if it were holding its breath. At dusk, hundreds of people ...
There are moments when power unintentionally exposes itself. One of those moments occurred during the October 7, 2025 hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, when Reuters photographer Jonathan ...
A federal judge in Chicago has drawn a line against the Trump administration’s drive for executive dominance. In a ruling that reaches far beyond Illinois, he declared the arrest of 26 people by ...
Donald Trump has finally turned the office of the president into a political court of punishment. On Wednesday, he publicly called for the imprisonment of two elected officials – the Democratic governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, ...
In hardly any other institution is Donald Trump’s will to power more visible than in the Supreme Court of the United States. With an ultra-conservative six-to-three majority, ...
In Portland, a city that in recent months has become the focal point of American constitutional questions, a woman entered the ICE building on October 7 whose public persona has long been draped in a religious myth ...
What is unfolding this Tuesday in the southwestern suburbs of Chicago is more than a show of force - it is a precedent. The first units of the Texas National Guard arrived in the afternoon ...
The new security state has no pomp. It stands behind manicured hedges, wears glass facades without a nameplate, and works with data we produce voluntarily. In Vienna, Virginia, just a few miles ...
October 7, 2025, begins with a promise and ends with a claim. In between lies a hearing in which fewer answers were found than battle lines. Pam Bondi, the Attorney General of the United ...
There are moments in history when political power no longer looks outward but turns inward - against its own country, against its own citizens ..
What is unfolding these days in the United States is more than a political conflict - it is an open stress test for American democracy. Donald Trump has ...
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 ...
Chicago, Broadview, Springfield – on this Monday, the legal front line stretched across the Midwest. Hardly had a federal court in Oregon prohibited the deployment of National Guardsmen to Portland ...
t was a morning like many others in Washington - and yet one in which the very foundations of American democracy trembled. While the venerable Supreme Court opened its new session, in which ...
It was shortly after midnight when Judge Karin Immergut picked up the phone. Outside in Portland, clouds of tear gas hung over a single city block, while new deployment orders were already being sent out in Washington.
A massive fire completely destroyed the beach house of Judge Diane S. Goodstein in the coastal town of Edisto Beach, South Carolina, on Saturday morning. Three family members of the 69-year-old jurist were injured and had to be taken to hospitals ...