Analysis

  • When Workers Strike, Democracy Wins

    A.J. Schumann

    Counterpunch

    Across continents, workers are organizing to do what ballots alone have not: enforce the public will. It’s time American workers join our peers abroad by reclaiming strikes as part of our own democratic tradition.

    Published On: 10/22/2025

  • Trump’s $230M DOJ Claim Exposes Presidency as Bribe Machine

    The New Republic and Greg Sargent

    The New Republic

    Donald Trump is rapidly transforming the presidency into a massive Bribe Delivery System.

    Published On: 10/22/2025

  • OpenAI’s Atlas Browser Is a Trojan Horse for the Web

    Anil Dash

    anildash.com

    OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, released their own browser called Atlas, and it actually is something new: the first browser that actively fights against the web.

    Published On: 10/22/2025

  • Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Charged With Plot to Kill Jeffries

    Dr. Stacey Patton

    Dr. Stacey Patton

    They told us this would happen.

    Published On: 10/22/2025

  • When Billionaires Buy the News and the Government

    Christopher Armitage

    The Existentialist Republic

    The sequence documented in Hungary, Russia, and Turkey followed identical steps: media consolidation, implementation of authoritarian policies, controlled information redirecting blame for consequences.

    Published On: 10/21/2025

  • Why Democrats Keep Losing the Working Class

    Norman Solomon

    Tom Dispatch

    How Corporate Democrats Led to the Trump Era.

    Published On: 10/21/2025

  • Building Local Power to Outlast Democratic Backsliding

    Sarah Van Gelder

    How We Rise, With Sarah

    Building power locally is a really key part of it. If you want to be a dictatorship, but you have lots of power centers all over the country choosing their own path, that’s much harder to do.

    Published On: 10/21/2025

  • ICE’s Unprecedented Weapons Buildup Hits American Cities

    Judd Legum

    Popular Information

    A Popular Information investigation reveals tens of millions in new ICE spending on guns, chemical weapons, and explosives.

    Published On: 10/20/2025

  • Why the Establishment Keeps Getting Mamdani Wrong

    Frank Rich

    New York Magazine

    Why the Democratic Party, the New York Times, and the donor class got Zohran Mamdani so wrong.

    Published On: 10/17/2025

  • The Left Isn’t Violent—But the Right Needs You to Think So

    Rebecca Solnit

    Meditations in an Emergency

    It’s hard to portray someone dancing in an inflatable frog or chicken costume as a terrorist.

    Published On: 10/16/2025

  • Chicago Neighbors Build Networks to Shield Immigrants

    Danny Postel

    In These Times

    As ICE wreaks chaos and violence in neighborhoods across Chicago, teams of rapid responders are protecting residents and challenging Trump’s attempted occupation...

    Published On: 10/16/2025

  • ICE Is Detaining U.S. Citizens—And the Data Is Damning

    Nicole Foy

    ProPublica

    When federal officers roll through communities in the way the Supreme Court permitted, the constitutional rights of both citizens and noncitizens are inevitably violated

    Published On: 10/16/2025

  • Grading the Media on Democracy Defense

    Mark Jacob

    Stop the Presses

    The Guardian gets an A, the NY Times gets a C, CBS gets an F

    Published On: 10/14/2025

  • Young GOP Leaders’ Racist Chats Reveal Party’s Dark Future

    Jason Beeferman and Emily Ngo

    Politico

    Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

    Published On: 10/14/2025

  • Shadow Firm Tracked World Leaders, Dissidents, and You

    Gabriel Geiger, Crofton Black, Emmanuel Freudenthal and Riccardo Coluccini

    Mother Jones

    Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

    Published On: 10/14/2025

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