Analysis

  • Bill Moyers Showed Us How to Fight for Democracy

    John Nichols

    The Nation

    The legendary journalist believed that speaking truth to power was the essential underpinning of an embattled American experiment.

    Published On: 06/27/2025

  • AI Is Now Deciding Elections—And No One’s Stopping It

    Steven Lee Myers and Stuart A. Thompson

    The New York Times

    Content generated by AI has become a factor in elections around the world. Most of it is bad, misleading voters and discrediting the democratic process.

    Published On: 06/27/2025

  • Mamdani Shows How Dems Can Win Hearts, Not Just Minds

    Anand Giridharadas

    The.Ink

    This was not an airwaves campaign. It was a stoop campaign. As obvious as this might seem, it’s a lesson that keeps going unlearned.

    Published On: 06/25/2025

  • USAID Shutdown Leaves Millions of Free Medicines to Rot

    Nicholas Kristof

    The New York Times

    Have our hearts grown so icy that we don’t care as the world’s richest men crush the world’s poorest children?

    Published On: 06/24/2025

  • ICE’s Masked Enforcers and the Price of Anonymity

    Sherrilyn Ifill

    Sherrilyn’s Newsletter

    We have every right to know the identity of those officers are who are abducting migrants and U.S. citizens from our streets, and under whose authority they are purporting to act.

    Published On: 06/24/2025

  • The Laws That Keep Third Parties Dead

    Center for Ballot Freedom

    The Ticket

    “As long as we have our current system of single-winner plurality elections, third parties have no meaningful chance to do anything more than show up as occasional spoilers.”

    Published On: 06/24/2025

  • Political Violence in America Is Escalating Fast

    J Oliver Conroy

    The Guardian

    The political temperature is dangerously high – and shows few signs of cooling.

    Published On: 06/22/2025

  • Out of Harm’s Way

    Ron Williams

    Resistance Media

    As the United States descends more deeply into an authoritarian nightmare, individuals and families are considering the once unthinkable: stay and risk persecution or uproot their lives for another state or country.

    Published On: 06/21/2025

  • Big Tech’s AI Mind Control Ambitions

    Gary Marcus

    Marcus on AI

    “Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’” — 1984, George Orwell

    Published On: 06/21/2025

  • ICE Acts Like It’s Above the Law — and No One Will Stop It

    Garrett Graff

    Doomsday Scenario

    The Trump administration is letting an unaccountable secret police form at the heart of our democracy.

    Published On: 06/20/2025

  • Trump’s Second Term: Democracy Under Siege

    George A. Polisner

    Leadership Matters

    But sure, let's have a parade!

    Published On: 06/20/2025

  • You’re Not Paranoid. The Surveillance State is Already Here

    Ron Williams

    Resistance Media

    Essential to maintaining a resistance media capacity will be the ability to successfully wage a running battle with those entities that would seek to surveil, disrupt, censor and destroy opposition voices.

    Published On: 06/18/2025

  • Big Beautiful Bill Would Sell Off Millions of Public Acres

    Joseph Winters

    Grist

    Republicans want to make 250 million acres of public lands eligible for sale to housing developers.

    Published On: 06/18/2025

  • A Scholar of Fascism Chose Her Kids Over the Fight

    Jonathan Freedland

    The Guardian

    Marci Shore made news around the world when her family moved to Canada. She discusses Trump, teaching history and how terror atomises society

    Published On: 06/16/2025

  • SNAP Cuts Threaten the Markets Feeding Us

    Gwen Frisbie-Fulton

    The Gander

    Instead of trying to fix this broken system, Congress is punishing the victims of its malfunctioning and is slashing SNAP to enact tax cuts for the rich.

    Published On: 06/16/2025

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