Analysis

  • Let’s Never Forget Who We Are

    Ron Williams

    Resistance Media (January 19, 2026)

    “We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there “is” such a thing as being too late..."

    Published On: 01/31/2026

  • Press Failures That Enabled Trump’s Second Term

    Parker Molloy

    The New Republic

    Political journalists need to stop pretending they don’t know what Republicans are going to do.

    Published On: 01/31/2026

  • Accountability Without Borders: Dismantling What We Built

    LaDonna Witmer

    The Long Scrawl

    When it all comes tumbling down.

    Published On: 01/31/2026

  • AI Could Hand Autocrats Total Control of the World

    Dario Amodei

    darioamodei.com

    Humanity needs to wake up, and this essay is an attempt—a possibly futile one, but it’s worth trying—to jolt people awake.

    Published On: 01/31/2026

  • Felony Charges Against Journalists Threaten Press Freedom

    Committee to Protect Journalists

    CPJ

    It is highly unusual for a journalist to be charged with a felony in relation to their reporting.

    Published On: 01/30/2026

  • Trump’s DOJ Creates Tool to Disrupt Future Elections

    Marc Elias

    Democracy Docket

    The department has demanded this highly sensitive data from all 50 states and has already sued 23 states, including DC, for refusing to comply. Pam Bondi even attempted to leverage the tragic killing of Alex Pretti to obtain this data from Minnesota.

    Published On: 01/30/2026

  • People Power Is Cracking MAGA’s Hold on America

    Sarah van Gelder

    Truthout (January 24, 2026)

    Elections, labor, mutual aid, and local organizing wins in 2025 point to strategies that can work in the coming year.

    Published On: 01/30/2026

  • Minneapolis Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

    The Editors of The Nation

    The Nation

    With their resistance to violent authoritarianism, the people of Minneapolis have renewed the spirit of Dr. King’s call for “the positive affirmation of peace.”

    Published On: 01/29/2026

  • Walz Warns Federal Force Could Fracture the Nation

    Isaac Stanley-Becker

    The Atlantic (Gift)

    The Minnesota governor warns of a national unraveling.

    Published On: 01/28/2026

  • Blood-Soil Ideology Behind Two Killings

    Ta-Nehisi Coates

    Vanity Fair

    Pretti and Good were labeled “domestic terrorists” of The Homeland—rhetoric employed by the administration to justify the state taking life, by associating the dead with national villainy.

    Published On: 01/26/2026

  • Faith Leaders on the Front Lines of ICE Resistance

    Robert F. Worth

    The Atlantic (Gift)

    In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.

    Published On: 01/25/2026

  • How a School Game’s AI Girl Became a Far-Right Icon

    Ben Quinn

    The Guardian

    The avatar, created to deter young people from extremism, has been subverted and is breaking out of niche online silos.

    Published On: 01/25/2026

  • When Peace Walks, Christian Nationalists See the Devil

    Dr. Stacey Patton

    Dr. Stacey Patton

    The religion that claims to follow a poor, itinerant teacher who walked everywhere, who owned nothing, who told people to put down their swords, now produces followers who cannot tolerate the sight of men doing precisely that. Walking. Owning little. Practicing peace. Not demanding shit. Not conquering and colonizing. Just being.

    Published On: 01/23/2026

  • Rubio Lied: Students Deported for Speech, Not Terror

    Jessica Washington

    The Intercept

    Rubio accused students including Mahmoud Khalil of supporting terrorism, but records unsealed after litigation by The Intercept undermine his claims.

    Published On: 01/23/2026

  • Trump Is Doing Putin’s Work—By Choice

    Garrett M. Graff

    Wired

    With Donald Trump’s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States.

    Published On: 01/22/2026

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