Analysis

  • Viktor Orbán Loses Election

    Hungary Votes Out Orban After 16 Years of Autocracy

    Richard Schrader

    Bad Energy

    What a world, what a world.

    Published On: 05/03/2026

  • An image of a proposed Trump passport as posted by the White House on X.

    FCC as Hatchet Man: Trump’s War on Free Press

    Sasha Abramsky

    The Nation

    Increasingly unpopular and facing a fracturing coalition, Trump is using government power to punish his critics, take political revenge, and revel in his own cruelty.

    Published On: 05/01/2026

  • Barbara Kopple on January 23, 2026 in Park City, Utah

    Barbara Kopple’s Labor Docs Return at a Critical Moment

    Ben Schwartz

    The Nation

    As her Oscar-winning labor documentaries return to theaters, Kopple reflects on union-busting, gig work, and her latest film on unions.

    Published On: 05/01/2026

  • Edmund Pettus Bridge 1965

    Supreme Court Guts Voting Rights for Minority Voters

    William J. Barber, II and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

    Our Moral Moment

    Where to look for hope as the legal victories of America’s moral movements are dismantled.

    Published On: 04/30/2026

  • Graham Platner speaks during a town hall in Ogunquit

    Schumer’s Recruit Loses Maine to Grassroots Insurgent

    Andrew Perez

    Zeteo

    Zeteo broke the news of Platner’s campaign launch. Now the anti-war, anti-Israel oysterman is Democrats’ presumptive Senate nominee in Maine, after Governor Janet Mills suspended her candidacy.

    Published On: 04/30/2026

  • The People vs the Poison protesters gather at the US Supreme Court.

    MAHA Protesters Turn on the White House Over Roundup

    The Big Picture and Jay Kuo

    The Big Picture

    The political marriage brokered by RFK Jr. was doomed from the get-go. And Republicans may pay a steep electoral price in November.

    Published On: 04/28/2026

  • Illustration by Rick McKee on CagleCartoons.com

    How Trump Turned the Presidency Into a Plunder Machine

    Henry A. Giroux

    LA Progressive (04/24/2026)

    Socialism or barbarism, democracy or gangster rule, shared futures or organized cruelty. History opened the question. What remains is whether people will answer it.

    Published On: 04/27/2026

  • Trump’s Board of Peace: A Crypto-Colonist Land Grab

    Resistance Media

    Resistance Media (03/10/2026)

    Techno fascism, genocide and Trump’s “Board of Peace”

    Published On: 04/26/2026

  • peaceful protesting

    Patel’s Fall Shows Peaceful Resistance Still Works

    Maya Wiley

    Maya Wiley

    There is power in peaceful protest, in litigation and in petitioning our government and holding every person in it accountable.

    Published On: 04/26/2026

  • Peter Magyar celebrating vistory

    Hungary’s Win Shows Youth Mobilization Beats Centrism

    Jason Stanley

    Front Left

    And not an American Peter Magyar.

    Published On: 04/26/2026

  • diverse crowd gathering public square

    Thomas Paine’s Warning Against Selective Compassion

    Robert L Arnold

    Robert L Arnold Substack

    There are sentences that sit politely in books forever … and then there are sentences that refuse to stay there at all.

    Published On: 04/26/2026

  • A picture of Chief Justice John Roberts

    Roberts Hid $20M Conflict. Now He Faces Disbarment.

    Christopher Armitage

    The Existentialist Republic (04/22/2026)

    The men and women running this system built their careers on the assumption that nobody was paying attention. We noticed.

    Published On: 04/24/2026

  • A picture of many of the most powerful men on earth at the stock trading market

    BBC Tracks Trades That Beat Trump by Minutes

    Mitch Jackson

    Uncensored Objection. Law. Facts. No Spin.

    The evidence shows a consistent pattern of trading spikes minutes and hours before Donald Trump moves the markets with his mouth. The evidence is not complicated. The evidence is in the timestamps.

    Published On: 04/23/2026

  • Amal Khalil body being recovered

    Israel Killed a Journalist. The World Must Respond.

    Jake Johnson

    Common Dreams

    Israel’s targeting of media professionals in the south while they are performing their professional duties is no longer a matter of isolated incidents; rather, it has become a proven pattern.

    Published On: 04/23/2026

  • A picture of Alex Karp

    Tech Billionaires Want to Run Your Life and Your Wars

    Elizabeth Spiers

    The Nation

    The tech company’s CEO Alex Karp delivers a self-serving broadside that’s steeped in oligarchic hubris and authoritarian nihilism.

    Published On: 04/23/2026

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