Analysis

  • Global • Journalism • Press Freedom • Recommended • Surveillance

    2025 Press Freedom Predators

    Reporters Without Borders

    Reporters Without Borders

    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is unveiling the profiles of 34 press freedom predators who attacked journalists and the right to information in 2025. What do they have in common? A hatred of press freedom.

    Published On: 11/07/2025

  • Disinformation

    How Joe Rogan Misleads Listeners About Climate Change

    Dana Nuccitelli, Yale Climate Connections

    Attention to the Unseen

    Of all the techniques in the climate denier’s playbook, Rogan relies most heavily on conspiracy theorizing.

    Published On: 11/07/2025

  • Recommended • Resistance • Social Media • Technology

    Civic Works: Two Projects, One Theme

    George Polisner

    civ.works

    civ.works will be a subscriber-supported, ad-free social network that does not betray subscriber trust by selling or sharing data with marketers or sinister political operatives.

    Published On: 11/07/2025

  • Democracy • Economy • Resistance

    Urgent Times Call for Something Old And Something New from the Labor Movement

    Peter Olney and Rand Wilson

    Labor Notes (October 16, 2025)

    For workers to survive Trump’s MAGA moment and build a fighting labor movement for the future, both electoral politics (something old) and militant actions to disrupt business as usual (something new for many unions) will be key.

    Published On: 11/06/2025

  • Human Rights • Personal Resilience • Resistance • Safety

    Personal Resilience is Resistance

    Resistance Media

    Resistance Media

    Compassion, empathy, anger, grief and joy are some of the most powerful acts of resistance available to us

    Published On: 11/05/2025

  • Democracy • Resistance

    From Mission Impossible to Mister Mayor

    Katrina Vanden Heuvel, John NIchols for The Nation

    The Nation

    If Zohran Mamdani governs as he campaigned, he will prove that the people have the power to shape their own future.

    Published On: 11/04/2025

  • Cyber Security • Press Freedom • Social Media • Surveillance

    As Ellison Buys Out TikTok, US Moves Toward One-Party Media

    Ari Paul

    FAIR (9/19/2025)

    This TikTok deal is not just about money. It’s about control of the political narrative.

    Published On: 11/03/2025

  • Culture • Democracy • Human Rights • Resistance

    Only Angels Can Slay Dragons

    Marianne Williamson

    TRANSFORM with Marianne Williamson (10/12/2025)

    Purification of the American heart is the key to our worldly salvation.

    Published On: 11/03/2025

  • Corruption • Legal

    Follow the Money: The Epstein Files They Didn’t Want You to See

    Closer to the Edge and Rook T. Winchester

    Closer to the Edge

    That deal wasn’t justice; it was choreography. The money-laundering indictment that could’ve exposed his financial enablers was boxed up and buried...

    Published On: 11/01/2025

  • Democracy • Violence

    Will the 2028 Election Even Happen? Is There a Plot to Use the Insurrection Act to End Democracy?

    Thom Hartmann

    The Hartmann Report

    Trump appears well aware of his weakness, his collapsing poll numbers, and the precipice the American economy is teetering at the edge of.

    Published On: 10/31/2025

  • Democracy

    The Democratic Establishment Is a Dead Man Walking

    Mike Brock

    Notes from the Circus

    The entire Democratic establishment infrastructure built on donor dependency and focus-group optimization and managing coalitions through accommodation—all of it dead.

    Published On: 10/30/2025

  • Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance

    Manufacturing Dissent: How America’s Most Popular “Opposition” Media Protects Oligarch Power

    Christopher Armitage

    The Existentialist Republic

    Power no longer exclusively manufactures agreement. American oligarchs and their media companies have now learned to manufacture the allowable form of disagreement itself.

    Published On: 10/28/2025

  • Human Rights • Safety • Violence

    Starving You is the Point: The Neuroscience of Hunger and Obedience in America

    Dr. Stacey Patton

    Dr. Stacey Patton

    We are watching a government experiment in population management using stress, scarcity, and biology to keep people too tired to fight back.

    Published On: 10/28/2025

  • Democracy • Violence • White Supremacy

    The US Civil War of 2025

    Jesse Hirsh

    Metaviews: Future of Authority

    Understanding Hybrid Civil War

    Published On: 10/26/2025

  • Corruption • Democracy • Legal

    Fifteen years after Citizens United, the Montana Plan poses the latest challenge to dark money

    Natalie Jonas

    Open Secrets

    The proposed amendment to the state Constitution redefines what is considered legitimate business activity and acceptable corporate donations by limiting corporate charters.

    Published On: 10/25/2025

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