
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
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
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
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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