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

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

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?

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

Yet Bluesky isn’t just a repository for social media’s disaffected. It’s also the best example of how “federation”—a buzzy Silicon Valley term that describes a structure wherein multiple independent groups collaborate to share information—can build a more equitable and independent social media experience.

When narrative becomes weapon, media becomes battleground. Trump’s second term isn’t just a return to power—it’s a full-scale war on truth.

Much of what the U.S. president has done to curb independent media echoes the Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán’s playbook.

The group behind the radical Project 2025 agenda is increasingly turning its attention to Europe.

As Americans increasingly get their news from online shows and streamers, the influence of this media ecosystem becomes more prominent — and Media Matters has found that the most popular of this content is overwhelmingly right-leaning.

Magical thinking is far from new. Adolf Hitler came to power amid similar lies and conspiracy theories. We should know where that leads. And, while MAGA may ignore the mountains of books written on fascism, the rest of us are not in the dark about what comes next.

Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.

A shadow cabinet appointed by “we the people” would show us what it would mean to have a government who put American families ahead of the enrichment of billionaires.

In his book Murder the Truth, author David Enrich explores how Justice Thomas' words coincide with a surge in legal threats and litigation against journalists and media outlets.

Mutual aid is a form of collective care in which communities come together to share resources, provide for one another’s needs, and build systems of support independent of the state or corporate entities.

Silicon Valley’s titans have decided that ruling the digital world is not enough.