Analysis

  • Kushner’s Conflicts: Peace Deals, Media, and Profit

    The Big Picture and Todd Beeton

    The Big Picture

    Jared Kushner is so back, and what he's up to should concern us all.

    Published On: 12/11/2025

  • Big Tech’s $100M Bet to Shape the 2026 Midterms

    Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby and Noel Sims

    Popular Information

    LTF has already secured more than $100 million, including $50 million from venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz and another $50 million from OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman.

    Published On: 12/11/2025

  • The DNC’s Democracy Problem Starts From Within

    Marianne Williamson

    TRANSFORM with Marianne Williamson (12/01/25)

    Nothing less will be sufficient.

    Published On: 12/10/2025

  • DOJ Memo Targets Dissent While Media Looks Away

    Jim Naureckas

    FAIR

    Congratulations—you may be headed for Attorney General Pam Bondi’s “list of groups or entities engaging in acts that may constitute domestic terrorism.”

    Published On: 12/10/2025

  • SCOTUS May Hand Trump Unprecedented Firing Power

    The Big Picture and Jay Quo

    The Big Picture

    A decision over who Trump can fire will reshape how our entire government functions.

    Published On: 12/09/2025

  • Trump’s NSS Echoes Kremlin’s Blueprint to Break Europe

    Olga Lautman

    Olga Lautman

    The United States is no longer acting as an independent power. It is behaving like a Kremlin satellite executing the foreign policy goals of a regime that has spent decades trying to dismantle the West...

    Published On: 12/07/2025

  • Dell’s $250 Kid Accounts Won’t Fix What Billionaires Broke

    Dr. Stacey Patton

    Dr. Stacey Patton

    Why a few hundred dollars per child won’t fix housing, tuition, or poverty—and how billionaire generosity disguises the systems keeping kids poor.

    Published On: 12/06/2025

  • Who’s Privatizing U.S. State Power—and How

    A project led by Prof. Francesca Bria with xof-research.org

    The Authoritarian Stack (11/21/2025)

    How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

    Published On: 12/05/2025

  • Why Slowing Down Is an Act of Resistance

    Federick Joseph

    In Retrospect

    Being here in a time that pushes us toward performance and harm.

    Published On: 12/03/2025

  • A Captured Fed Could Gut Dollar Stability

    Dean Baker

    The National Memo

    If Trump gives Fed Chair Hassett a call telling him that he wants the interest rate to be 1.0 percent, Hassett will respond with a “Yes Sir.”

    Published On: 12/03/2025

  • Thiel’s Escape Plan While AI Bubble Threatens Collapse

    Carole Cadwalladr

    How to Survive the Broligarchy (November 16, 2025)

    Yesterday, I published on the "Great AI Bubble". Today, Silicon Valley's Dr Evil dumps his stock

    Published On: 12/02/2025

  • ICE’s Hidden Detention Network Needs Local Eyes

    Laura Flanders

    Laura Flanders

    I was near two ICE operations this Thanksgiving. One I saw, the other I didn’t.

    Published On: 12/01/2025

  • Republican Cracks Widen as Trump’s Grip Starts to Slip

    Paul Waldman

    Public Notice

    Turns out they're not in it for Trump, they're in it for themselves.

    Published On: 11/28/2025

  • Trump Insiders Eye Russia Deals While Ukraine Burns

    Drew Hinshaw, Benoit Faucon, Rebecca Ballhaus, Thomas Grove, Joe Parkinson

    The Wall Street Journal

    The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.

    Published On: 11/28/2025

  • X’s Algorithm Can Turbocharge Political Division

    Robert Booth

    The Guardian

    Study finds that a week of political content can bring about a shift in views that previously would have taken three years

    Published On: 11/27/2025

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