• Artificial Intelligence • Cyber Security • Digital Rights • Europe

    Denmark Fights Back Against Deepfakes

    Anna Desmarais

    euronews

    Denmark will give people copyright over their own likenesses as a way to fight back against generated “deepfake” videos, as countries around the world grapple with the rapid rise of AI.

    Published On: 06/30/2025

  • Legal • Safety

    Trump attacks on NRC independence pose health, safety risks

    Edwin Lyman

    Utility Dive

    The exodus of key personnel at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will jeopardize its ability to oversee the nuclear power fleet and slow the licensing of new facilities to a crawl.

    Published On: 06/30/2025

  • Democracy • Disinformation • Resistance

    The Rage of Billionaires and the Frenzy to Stop Zohran Mamdani

    Norman Solomon

    Roots Action

    The oligarchs accustomed to such governance are furious that the nation’s capital of capitalism is in danger of serving people instead of megaprofits.

    Published On: 06/30/2025

  • Democracy • Disinformation • Global • Human Rights • Legal

    Trump defends Netanyahu, attacks Israeli prosecutors over corruption trial

    Al Jazeera

    Al Jazeera

    US President Donald Trump links US aid to Netanyahu’s corruption trial in fiery post on his social media site.

    Published On: 06/29/2025

  • Legal

    “Disaster Looms”: Justice Jackson’s Warning for the Country

    Pema Levy

    Mother Jones

    “Eventually, executive power will become completely uncontainable, and our beloved constitutional Republic will be no more.”

    Published On: 06/27/2025

  • Democracy • Human Rights • Journalism

    Bill Moyers Kept the Faith in Democracy. We Need His Example More Than Ever.

    John Nichols

    The Nation

    The legendary journalist believed that speaking truth to power was the essential underpinning of an embattled American experiment.

    Published On: 06/27/2025

  • Artificial Intelligence • Democracy • Disinformation • Technology

    A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy

    Steven Lee Myers and Stuart A. Thompson

    The New York Times

    Content generated by AI has become a factor in elections around the world. Most of it is bad, misleading voters and discrediting the democratic process.

    Published On: 06/27/2025

  • Democracy • Economy

    What Zohran Can Teach Democrats

    Anand Giridharadas

    The.Ink

    This was not an airwaves campaign. It was a stoop campaign. As obvious as this might seem, it’s a lesson that keeps going unlearned.

    Published On: 06/25/2025

  • Global • Human Rights • Recommended

    The Waste Musk Created

    Nicholas Kristof

    The New York Times

    Have our hearts grown so icy that we don’t care as the world’s richest men crush the world’s poorest children?

    Published On: 06/24/2025

  • Legal • Violence • White Supremacy

    Masked Terror

    Sherrilyn Ifill

    Sherrilyn’s Newsletter

    We have every right to know the identity of those officers are who are abducting migrants and U.S. citizens from our streets, and under whose authority they are purporting to act.

    Published On: 06/24/2025

  • Democracy • Legal • Recommended

    Why Elon Musk’s Third Party Won’t Get Off the Launchpad

    Center for Ballot Freedom

    The Ticket

    “As long as we have our current system of single-winner plurality elections, third parties have no meaningful chance to do anything more than show up as occasional spoilers.”

    Published On: 06/24/2025

  • Human Rights • Violence • White Supremacy

    The US has entered a new phase of political violence

    J Oliver Conroy

    The Guardian

    The political temperature is dangerously high – and shows few signs of cooling.

    Published On: 06/22/2025

  • Democracy • Human Rights • Safety • Violence

    ICE Believes it will Never Face Accountability Again

    Garrett Graff

    Doomsday Scenario

    The Trump administration is letting an unaccountable secret police form at the heart of our democracy.

    Published On: 06/20/2025

  • Economy • Featured • Recommended

    Your favorite campgrounds, hiking trails, and forests could soon be up for auction

    Joseph Winters

    Grist

    Republicans want to make 250 million acres of public lands eligible for sale to housing developers.

    Published On: 06/18/2025

  • Economy • Human Rights • Resistance

    Working folks build food solutions, while Congress slashes SNAP

    Gwen Frisbie-Fulton

    The Gander

    Instead of trying to fix this broken system, Congress is punishing the victims of its malfunctioning and is slashing SNAP to enact tax cuts for the rich.

    Published On: 06/16/2025

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