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Palantir’s Karp: The Billionaire Reshaping US Power
TAYLOR LORENZ
zeteo.com
As CEO of Palantir, which he co-founded with Thiel more than two decades ago, Alex Karp is part of a new breed of Valley billionaires integrating their businesses with America's military-industrial complex.
Published On: 04/01/2025
NYT’s Soft Coverage May Be Costing American Democracy
Mark Jacob
Stop the Presses
During the 2024 campaign, the Times sane-washed Trump’s mental unfitness, downplayed MAGA fascism, and sometimes treated a political turning point for our country as a source of lighthearted amusement.
Published On: 03/31/2025
Small-Town Papers Fight Back Against Government Censorship
MAX ABRAMS
Freedom of the Press Foundation
In a country that routinely distrusts and villainizes local news, these attacks did not occur in a vacuum; if they can happen in Clarksdale or Marion, they can happen anywhere.
Published On: 03/28/2025
Media Reform Champion McChesney Dies Fighting Oligarchy
John Nichols
The Nation
Bob, with his remarkable intellect and even more remarkable capacity for communicating his vision of a media that served citizens rather than corporations, was always the driving force. His research and his insatiable curiosity helped him to see the future more clearly than any scholar of his generation...
Published On: 03/27/2025
Democracy’s Clock Is Ticking: The Press Freedom Fight
JOEL SIMON
Vanity Fair
In 2024, the Democrats ran on the catchphrase “We are not going back.” Even after the party’s resounding defeat, the refrain may have been more prophetic than they imagined. New research shows that once a country begins a descent into authoritarianism it’s extremely difficult to reverse. And the first vector of attack is often the free press.
Published On: 03/27/2025
Trump’s Election Order: A Power Grab Disguised as Reform
Ari Berman
Mother Jones
On Tuesday afternoon, President Donald Trump signed a far-reaching executive order that Eliza Sweren-Becker, senior counsel for the Brennan Center for Justice’s voting rights and elections program, described as “an astonishing and unprecedented voter suppression” effort. It would upend how Americans register to vote, how they cast their ballots, and how their votes are counted.
Published On: 03/26/2025
Musk’s Green Empire Runs on Your Tax Dollars
J. Dylan Sandifer
The New Republic
Musk loves to sneer at working-class people who rely on food stamps or unemployment benefits, claiming they’re lazy or entitled. But what’s more entitled than using regulatory credits to boost your company’s stock price and then leveraging that stock for loans to keep your cash flow steady?
Published On: 03/21/2025
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