Analysis

Nine members of the “Prairieland 19,” anti-ICE protesters in Texas who the Trump administration is dubiously accusing of domestic terrorism, are going on trial this week. The case is a test for how easily Trump might criminalize dissent going forward.

The iconic civil rights leader, who has died at 84, made anti-war and pro-diplomacy politics central to his presidential bids and his lifelong activism.

Trump’s corruption makes capitulation a media business plan.

Take this as your first warning that not only the temperature but the politics of the planet are likely to change dramatically, and soon.

Right now, a host of brilliant, dedicated souls do fantastic work reporting and interpreting the news in independent newsletters, podcasts, magazines and even mainstream media. In other ways, journalism is in an age of slop and slime and decline.

The extraordinary level of grassroots solidarity and creative resistance in anti-ICE protests in Minnesota has given people a new appreciation for the power that mass non-cooperation can have in resisting the Trump administration’s drive toward authoritarianism.

“Germany’s concentration camps didn’t start as instruments of mass murder, and neither have ours; both started as facilities for people the government’s leader said were a problem..."

“This is a critical moment for humanity, with international law and human rights institutions under attack like never before. The use of misinformation to further delegitimize them poses a profound threat to human rights and the rule of law itself."

Questioning war and why we fight is imperative. It will require a courageous confrontation with a powerful taboo, a palpable force field that snarls and growls. But this is the end of the line. War at this scale is ecocide, a death wish.

Who will win this demonic game Trump and Rubio are playing with the lives of eleven million Cubans?

We’re past the point where this is an interesting dinner conversation about the future. The future is already here. It just hasn’t knocked on your door yet. It’s about to.

Murdoch’s media machine is the “most dishonest, unprincipled and corrupt of any media empire in the history of the English-speaking world.”

At the very heart of almost all our crises is a conflict between two worldviews, the worldview in which everything is connected and the world of isolated individualism, of social darwinism and the war of each against each.

Debt, ego, sexual compromise, and fear: why Trump’s behavior makes sense only when you realize he’s been in Putin's pocket for years…

The plan appears to be to finish Israel’s bulldozing of Gaza to make real estate opportunities for investors.