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  • Global • Health • Human Rights • Violence

    Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.

    Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Brett Murphy, photography by Peter DiCampo

    ProPublica

    Rubio issued sweeping stop-work orders to aid programs worldwide. Musk declared that his DOGE team had fed USAID “into the woodchipper.”

    Published On: 12/15/2025

  • Democracy • Legal

    The Government Can Empty Your Bank Account Tomorrow. No Judge Required

    W. A. Lawrence

    Glass Empires By W. Lawrence

    How Miller's Legal Architecture Ensures Constitutional Protections Arrive After They Matter.

    Published On: 12/15/2025

  • Human Rights • Personal Resilience • Resistance

    The Long Work of Courage

    Rev. Cameron Trimble

    Piloting Faith: An (Almost) Daily Meditation

    A Meditation by Rev. Cameron Trimble

    Published On: 12/12/2025

  • Corruption • Global • Human Rights

    The Disturbing Return Of The Prodigal Son-In-Law

    The Big Picture and Todd Beeton

    The Big Picture

    Jared Kushner is so back, and what he's up to should concern us all.

    Published On: 12/11/2025

  • Artificial Intelligence • Democracy

    The AI industry’s $100 million play to influence the 2026 elections

    Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby and Noel Sims

    Popular Information

    LTF has already secured more than $100 million, including $50 million from venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz and another $50 million from OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman.

    Published On: 12/11/2025

  • Democracy

    Democrats, Look in the Mirror

    Marianne Williamson

    TRANSFORM with Marianne Williamson (12/01/25)

    Nothing less will be sufficient.

    Published On: 12/10/2025

  • Human Rights • Threat Management

    FBI Is Making an Enemies List—and Most Corporate Media Didn’t Even Check It Once

    Jim Naureckas

    FAIR

    Congratulations—you may be headed for Attorney General Pam Bondi’s “list of groups or entities engaging in acts that may constitute domestic terrorism.”

    Published On: 12/10/2025

  • Democracy • Legal

    Humphrey’s Who? The Big SCOTUS Case Few Understand

    The Big Picture and Jay Quo

    The Big Picture

    A decision over who Trump can fire will reshape how our entire government functions.

    Published On: 12/09/2025

  • Democracy • Disinformation • Europe • Russia

    America’s Foreign Policy Now Aligns With Russia

    Olga Lautman

    Olga Lautman

    The United States is no longer acting as an independent power. It is behaving like a Kremlin satellite executing the foreign policy goals of a regime that has spent decades trying to dismantle the West...

    Published On: 12/07/2025

  • Disinformation • Economy

    The Dells’ $250 “Investment” Accounts for Kids Is Scammy Billionaire Philanthropy Theater

    Dr. Stacey Patton

    Dr. Stacey Patton

    Why a few hundred dollars per child won’t fix housing, tuition, or poverty—and how billionaire generosity disguises the systems keeping kids poor.

    Published On: 12/06/2025

  • Artificial Intelligence • Corruption • Democracy • Technology

    The Authoritarian Stack

    A project led by Prof. Francesca Bria with xof-research.org

    The Authoritarian Stack (11/21/2025)

    How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

    Published On: 12/05/2025

  • Personal Resilience • Resistance

    Presence As Survival

    Federick Joseph

    In Retrospect

    Being here in a time that pushes us toward performance and harm.

    Published On: 12/03/2025

  • Corruption • Disinformation

    Will Trump’s Next Fed Chair Transform America Into Argentina?

    Dean Baker

    The National Memo

    If Trump gives Fed Chair Hassett a call telling him that he wants the interest rate to be 1.0 percent, Hassett will respond with a “Yes Sir.”

    Published On: 12/03/2025

  • Artificial Intelligence • Economy • Technology

    Peter Thiel Gets Out of Dodge

    Carole Cadwalladr

    How to Survive the Broligarchy (November 16, 2025)

    Yesterday, I published on the "Great AI Bubble". Today, Silicon Valley's Dr Evil dumps his stock

    Published On: 12/02/2025

  • Human Rights • Threat Management • Violence

    A Tale of Two ICEs

    Laura Flanders

    Laura Flanders

    I was near two ICE operations this Thanksgiving. One I saw, the other I didn’t.

    Published On: 12/01/2025

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