Analysis

  • Exiled Journalists Are Democracy’s Last Witnesses

    Irene Khan

    United Nations Human Rights Council

    The security and safety of journalists in exile remain precarious, because of the failure of States to uphold their international obligations.

    Published On: 04/26/2025

  • Iran’s Resistance Playbook for Democracy Defenders

    Ari Honarvar

    Yes Magazine

    For more than four decades, Iranians have resisted through underground clubs, labor strikes, and other everyday acts of defiance.

    Published On: 04/24/2025

  • Inside America’s political exodus across state lines

    Ed Pilkington

    The Guardian

    Americans have often moved between states for opportunities. Now they’re being forced to uproot themselves to escape hostile forces under Trump

    Published On: 04/24/2025

  • FBI’s Loyalty Trap: How Patel Weaponizes Partnerships

    Closer to the Edge

    https://closertotheedge.substack.com

    Inside the most dangerous public-private “partnership” in modern U.S. history

    Published On: 04/23/2025

  • Jailed for Teaching Gandhi: The Case of Badar

    Nader Hashemi

    New Lines Magazine

    A visit to the ICE facility housing the Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri, whose case parallels those of Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk.

    Published On: 04/23/2025

  • Trump’s Playbook Mirrors Orbán’s Autocratic Rise

    Frank Langfitt

    All Things Considered

    A survey of more than 500 political scientists finds that the vast majority think the United States is moving swiftly from liberal democracy toward some form of authoritarianism.

    Published On: 04/22/2025

  • Survivors of Autocracy Warn: America Is Out of Time

    Adrienne LaFrance

    The Atlantic

    It’s later than you think, but it’s not too late.

    Published On: 04/22/2025

  • Thom Hartmann’s Blueprint for Progressive Media

    Closer to the Edge

    Closer to the Edge

    “The most powerful way to change the world is to secretly commit little acts of compassion. You must behave as if your every act, even the smallest, impacted a thousand people for a hundred generations. Because it does.”

    Published On: 04/22/2025

  • Trump’s Playbook for Silencing the Free Press

    Robert Kuttner

    The American Prospect

    As Trump tries to destroy one free institution after another—universities, law firms, independent public agencies, trade unions—sooner or later he will come for the press.

    Published On: 04/22/2025

  • Philanthropy Draws the Line Against Trump’s Power Grab

    David Smith

    The Guardian

    Foundation leaders say charitable organisations could be next in the firing line – but must ‘stand together’ to resist

    Published On: 04/19/2025

  • Press Freedom Alert: Entering the US as a Journalist

    Committee to Protect Journalists

    CPJ

    Educate yourself on border security protocols and learn about your rights when encountering law enforcement at border crossings.

    Published On: 04/17/2025

  • Four Journalists Jailed for Covering Navalny’s Russia

    Meduza

    Meduza

    Who are the four Russian journalists jailed for their alleged work with Navalny's organization?

    Published On: 04/16/2025

  • Local Newsrooms Are Fighting Back—and Winning

    Joel Simon

    Columbia Journalism Review

    To sustain this new system, Thornton told me, nonprofit news organizations need diversified funding from membership, sponsorship, events, and philanthropy, which will need to support local media in perpetuity, the way they do the arts.

    Published On: 04/16/2025

  • How Trump Is Dismantling Financial Accountability

    Anne Applebaum

    The Atlantic

    It’s now up to the media, to outside organizations, and to whistleblowers to keep reporting the slide into kleptocracy to the public.

    Published On: 04/14/2025

  • The Armageddon Right Is Betting Against Our Future

    Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

    The Guardian

    The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them.

    Published On: 04/13/2025

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