Analysis

  • Canada • Democracy • Exile • Safety

    Be a Patriot

    George Packer

    The Atlantic

    Fleeing America before you are threatened is a lot like obeying in advance.

    Published On: 04/10/2025

  • Journalism • Press Freedom

    The powerful are using lawsuit threats to silence media

    Michel Martin , Taylor Haney , Adriana Gallardo

    NPR

    Local officials and business moguls are also turning to lawsuits or the threat of them to silence the press.

    Published On: 04/09/2025

  • Democracy

    The Putinization of America

    Thom Hartmann

    Hartmannreport.com

    What happens when a country stops pretending to care about democracy and just lets the billionaires run wild? Look no further than Putin’s Russia — a place where wealth buys protection, loyalty buys power, and corruption isn’t hidden, it’s institutionalized.

    Published On: 04/08/2025

  • Journalism

    “Nothing to FOIA Here”

    Closer to the Edge

    Closer to the Edge

    How Signal, Silence, and Schedule F Are Killing Government Transparency

    Published On: 04/08/2025

  • Journalism • Resistance

    The Resistance Will Not Be Televised

    Miranda C. Spencer

    FAIR

    If you relied on articles and broadcasts from the legacy national news media during early 2025, you wouldn’t know the extent of grassroots action prompted by this discontent.

    Published On: 04/04/2025

  • Social Media

    Trump’s TikTok Takeover

    Oliver Darcy

    Status

    TikTok’s fate still remains unclear, but if it stays in the U.S., it won’t be free—it’ll be bound to Donald Trump, giving him and the GOP a propaganda machine like no other.

    Published On: 04/02/2025

  • Technology

    Meet the Tech Billionaire Just as Dangerous as Elon Musk

    TAYLOR LORENZ

    zeteo.com

    As CEO of Palantir, which he co-founded with Thiel more than two decades ago, Alex Karp is part of a new breed of Valley billionaires integrating their businesses with America's military-industrial complex.

    Published On: 04/01/2025

  • Democracy

    How to Save a Democracy

    Laura Gamboa

    Foreign Affairs

    If American democracy is to prevail, pro-democracy forces must follow the handbook that has enabled oppositions to stop would-be autocrats in other countries.

    Published On: 03/31/2025

  • Journalism

    The New York Times is on the wrong side of history

    Mark Jacob

    Stop the Presses

    During the 2024 campaign, the Times sane-washed Trump’s mental unfitness, downplayed MAGA fascism, and sometimes treated a political turning point for our country as a source of lighthearted amusement.

    Published On: 03/31/2025

  • Journalism • Press Freedom

    Trump’s Attacks on Press Freedom Are Paving the Way for Authoritarianism

    JOEL SIMON

    Vanity Fair

    In 2024, the Democrats ran on the catchphrase “We are not going back.” Even after the party’s resounding defeat, the refrain may have been more prophetic than they imagined. New research shows that once a country begins a descent into authoritarianism it’s extremely difficult to reverse. And the first vector of attack is often the free press.

    Published On: 03/27/2025

  • Democracy • Legal

    Trump-Musk Order Will Cost 21 Million Their Vote

    Greg Palast

    gregpalast.com

    President Donald J. Trump issued an extraordinary Executive Order that would give Elon Musk access to the voter files of every state.

    Published On: 03/26/2025

  • Democracy

    When toxic polarization becomes a civil war

    Nonviolence Radio

    https://wagingnonviolence.org/

    International peacebuilder, mediator and scholar John Paul Lederach offers practical wisdom for resisting cycles of division and violence before it's too late.

    Published On: 03/25/2025

  • Democracy

    What We Must Understand About the Dark Enlightenment Movement

    Ed Simon

    Time

    Where the Enlightenment promised liberty, emancipation, equality, and solidarity, “Dark Enlightenment” offers servitude, hierarchy, bondage, and ruthlessness.

    Published On: 03/24/2025

  • Economy • Technology

    The Tesla Secret That Exposes Elon Musk’s Whole Game

    J. Dylan Sandifer

    The New Republic

    Musk loves to sneer at working-class people who rely on food stamps or unemployment benefits, claiming they’re lazy or entitled. But what’s more entitled than using regulatory credits to boost your company’s stock price and then leveraging that stock for loans to keep your cash flow steady?

    Published On: 03/21/2025

  • Europe • Exile • Global • Safety

    Americans in Race for European Residency

    Alice Kantor

    Bloomberg

    The rush to secure passports and visas comes as many countries tighten immigration rules.

    Published On: 03/19/2025

Resources