Analysis

From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that insiders say they feel like “he is the commander in chief.”

The world’s continued dependence on fossil fuels is at the heart of every aspect of this emerging polycrisis - driving oil wars, climate destruction and famine.

A Pressing Issues interview with the Democracy Now! host and the filmmakers behind Steal This Story, Please!

There is another set of files, that if made public, could finally and fully explode this coverup and bring the proverbial walls tumbling down. They are sitting in the US Treasury Department and being withheld by Secretary Scott Bessent.

Palantir is designing the infrastructure of repression — and telling us why.

All parts of the media — news media, social media, entertainment media — play a decisive role in how humanity confronts the climate challenge.

Indigenous wisdom offers a diagnosis of what ails our world — and understanding it is the first step toward a cure.

And how I got permanently banned from X.

What a world, what a world.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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