Analysis

  • Red State Communities Rise Up Against ICE Crackdowns

    Sonali Kolhatkar

    Truthout

    Given the increasing number of U.S. citizens caught in ICE’s dragnet, organizers are warning that attacks on immigrants are just the beginning.

    Published On: 12/29/2025

  • GOP’s Shrinking Base Faces a 2026 Reckoning

    George A. Polisner

    Leadership Matters

    For decades, Republicans have relied on a rebranded cycle of political marketing—Silent Majority, Reagan Revolution, Moral Majority, Tea Party, MAGA—all designed to divide voters along emotional fault lines while stealthily consolidating wealth and power at the top.

    Published On: 12/29/2025

  • When Power Mocks: Teaching Kids What Real Leadership Is

    Thom Hartmann

    The Hartmann Report

    The future lays before us now, and if we care about the country our children will inherit, we can’t let this moral vandalism to go unanswered.

    Published On: 12/26/2025

  • 60 Minutes Is Being Silenced From Within

    Dan Rather and Team Steady

    Steady

    What happened inside “60 Minutes” this weekend

    Published On: 12/22/2025

  • Americans Are Actually Leaving This Time

    Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

    The New Yorker (December 8, 2025)

    The number of aggrieved Americans seeking a new life abroad appears to be rising. The Netherlands offers one way out.

    Published On: 12/22/2025

  • AI Voice Cloning Is Turbocharging Extremist Reach

    Ben Makuch

    The Guardian

    Researchers warn generative tools are helping militant groups from neo-Nazis to the Islamic State spread ideology.

    Published On: 12/21/2025

  • How Feminism Is Cracking Trump’s Power

    Rebecca Solnit

    Meditations in an Emergency

    The files seem to have been his breaking point. Breaking point in the loyalty of so many right-wingers, and maybe a mental breaking point for him. I welcome what belated, flawed, imperfect version of justice may yet come.

    Published On: 12/20/2025

  • Epstein’s Drip Feed Is a Masterclass in Elite Impunity

    Dr. Stacey Patton

    Dr. Stacey Patton

    The public is being shown just enough to know the truth, and to understand that nothing is going to happen.

    Published On: 12/20/2025

  • How Russian Oil Money Flows Into U.S. Immigration Policy

    W. A. Lawrence

    Glass Empires By W. A. Lawrence (12/11/25)

    Tom Homan bragged he was "enjoying" deportations that separated 5,500 children from parents. Now he implements Heritage policies funded by €50 million from Russian crude oil sales.

    Published On: 12/20/2025

  • Chile Elects a Pinochet Admirer — Democracy at Risk

    Ariel Dorfman

    The New York Times (Gift)

    Any resistance that Chileans bring to the streets must be accompanied by an equally valiant attempt to imagine our way out of this crisis.

    Published On: 12/17/2025

  • How Trump Built a System That Won’t Say No

    Christopher Armitage

    The Existentialist Republic

    What would you do if watching an election be cancelled or stolen in real time?

    Published On: 12/17/2025

  • Military Vows to Strike Terror Groups on U.S. Soil

    Nick Turse

    The Intercept

    “If I had no concerns and I was confident in the lawful order, I would definitely execute that order.”

    Published On: 12/16/2025

  • DOGE Cut 62-Cent Cholera Treatments. Hundreds Died.

    Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Brett Murphy, photography by Peter DiCampo

    ProPublica

    Rubio issued sweeping stop-work orders to aid programs worldwide. Musk declared that his DOGE team had fed USAID “into the woodchipper.”

    Published On: 12/15/2025

  • When Treasury Freezes You Out Before Court Can Act

    W. A. Lawrence

    Glass Empires By W. Lawrence

    How Miller's Legal Architecture Ensures Constitutional Protections Arrive After They Matter.

    Published On: 12/15/2025

  • Courage as Stamina: Staying Power in Dark Times

    Rev. Cameron Trimble

    Piloting Faith: An (Almost) Daily Meditation

    A Meditation by Rev. Cameron Trimble

    Published On: 12/12/2025

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