Analysis

  • ICE’s Mass Social Media Dragnet Threatens Free Speech

    Dell Cameron

    Wired

    Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

    Published On: 10/03/2025

  • Nonprofits Brace as Trump Targets Civil Society

    Vittoria Elliott

    Wired

    As the Trump administration threatens them, liberal nonprofits have been quietly preparing to do everything from surrendering 501(c)(3) status to relocating outside the US.

    Published On: 10/02/2025

  • Can the Right Rewrite Wikipedia?

    Aaron Mak

    Politico

    It’s Wikipedia’s turn in the “free speech” washing machine.

    Published On: 10/02/2025

  • Jane Goodall’s Legacy: How Chimps Changed Us

    Nell Greenfieldboyce

    NPR

    British primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall's decades of research on chimpanzees in the wild changed perceptions of relations between humans and animals.

    Published On: 10/01/2025

  • SAG-AFTRA Fights Back Against AI Actors Taking Over Hollywood

    Brett Wilkins

    Common Dreams

    The synthetic performer, says SAG-AFTRA, is “a character generated by a computer program that was trained on the work of countless professional performers—without permission or compensation.”

    Published On: 09/30/2025

  • Unions Sue to Block Vought’s Shutdown Firing Scheme

    Whitney Curry Wimbush

    The American Prospect

    Multiple labor unions sued the OMB director for abusing his position and pushing an extremist Project 2025 agenda.

    Published On: 09/30/2025

  • A Jewish Activist’s Yom Kippur Letter from the Flotilla

    David Adler

    The Nation

    I hope that fellow Jews will join me in redefining their approach to atonement and move toward courageous action to put an end to this horrific genocide.

    Published On: 09/30/2025

  • Trump’s Terror Memo Targets Legal Left Opposition

    Jeff Sharlet

    Scenes from a Slow Civil War

    A close reading of "NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7: Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence"

    Published On: 09/26/2025

  • State Power Is the Last Line Against Federal Overreach

    Christopher Armitedge

    The Existential Republic

    Here's how we stop it from happening.

    Published On: 09/26/2025

  • Democracy Under Siege: How Trump Seizes Power

    Thom Hartmann

    The Hartmann Report

    This is not law and order: it's monarchy enforced by fear and lawsuits…

    Published On: 09/24/2025

  • How the Ellisons Are Quietly Buying American Media

    Jake Lahut

    Wired

    The Ellison family is cornering the market on attention and data the same way the Vanderbilts did railroads and the Rockefellers did oil.

    Published On: 09/24/2025

  • FCC Power and the Fight to Keep Kimmel on Air

    Joe Worthy

    Waging Nonviolence

    Disney’s reversal on Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension wasn’t an act of corporate consciousness — it was a strategic retreat forced by coordinated pressure.

    Published On: 09/23/2025

  • Detained Journalist’s 100-Day Letter Exposes Press Freedom Crisis

    Tim Darnell

    Atlanta News First

    The American Civil Liberties Union has been seeking Mr. Guevara’s release from retaliatory detention in a federal district court and are asking the court to free him immediately before he is deported at any moment.”

    Published On: 09/22/2025

  • If Trump Controls the Fed, Democracy Pays the Price

    Roge Karma

    The Atlantic

    If the president takes over the Federal Reserve, he will have extraordinary power to reward his friends and destroy his enemies.

    Published On: 09/22/2025

  • Government Pressure Forces ABC to Drop Kimmel

    Sian Cain and Oliver Holmes

    The Guardian

    Removal of late-night show criticised as part of Trump administration’s attack on critical voices in media, academia and business

    Published On: 09/18/2025

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