• Press Freedom • Safety

    A Russian journalist’s escape from Moscow to Paris

    RSF

    Reporters Without Borders

    Exhausted but free, Ekaterina Barabash recounted her escape from the Russian authorities, who put her on their wanted list as she faced up to ten years in prison.

    Published On: 05/05/2025

  • Economy

    Trump’s Recession Has Begun

    Timothy Noah

    The New Republic

    It’s already in Seattle. It will now travel east.

    Published On: 05/03/2025

  • Economy • Featured

    Trump’s proposed budget would mean ‘disastrous’ cuts to science

    Science News Staff

    Science

    Key research budgets would shrink by one-third to one-half in 2026 spending plan

    Published On: 05/02/2025

  • Global • Safety

    Trump’s Climate and Clean Energy Rollback Tracker

    Climate Action Campaign

    Climate Action Campaign

    By cutting carbon pollution and accelerating the transition to clean energy, we will improve public health and create a more resilient economy and a more sustainable future for all.

    Published On: 04/29/2025

  • Legal

    Teaching Gandhi in a Texas Detention Center

    Nader Hashemi

    New Lines Magazine

    A visit to the ICE facility housing the Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri, whose case parallels those of Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk.

    Published On: 04/23/2025

  • Legal • Resistance

    US Philanthropists Warn Against Capitulating to Trump

    David Smith

    The Guardian

    Foundation leaders say charitable organisations could be next in the firing line – but must ‘stand together’ to resist

    Published On: 04/19/2025

  • Press Freedom

    ‘I have always acted within the law’

    Meduza

    Meduza

    Who are the four Russian journalists jailed for their alleged work with Navalny's organization?

    Published On: 04/16/2025

  • Democracy • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom

    Why the Fight for Local Journalism Matters

    Joel Simon

    Columbia Journalism Review

    To sustain this new system, Thornton told me, nonprofit news organizations need diversified funding from membership, sponsorship, events, and philanthropy, which will need to support local media in perpetuity, the way they do the arts.

    Published On: 04/16/2025

  • Corruption • Legal

    Kleptocracy, Inc.

    Anne Applebaum

    The Atlantic

    It’s now up to the media, to outside organizations, and to whistleblowers to keep reporting the slide into kleptocracy to the public.

    Published On: 04/14/2025

  • Democracy

    Military contractors pitch unprecedented prison plan for detained immigrants

    DASHA BURNS and MYAH WARD

    Politico

    Erik Prince wants to cut a deal to transport detainees from the US to El Salvador.

    Published On: 04/11/2025

  • Legal

    Trump signs orders targeting two ex-officials who criticized him

    Steve Holland

    Reuters

    U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed directives targeting two former government officials who criticized him during his first term, calling one of them a traitor and saying they should be investigated.

    Published On: 04/10/2025

  • Journalism • Press Freedom

    Entry: Denied

    SARAH GREVY GOTFREDSEN

    Columbia Journalism Review

    The “intolerable risk to press freedom” posed by device searches at the border.

    Published On: 04/10/2025

  • Journalism • Press Freedom

    AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists

    DAVID BAUDER

    Associated Press

    A federal judge ordered the White House on Tuesday to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events, affirming on First Amendment grounds that the government cannot punish the news organization for the content of its speech.

    Published On: 04/09/2025

  • Democracy • White Supremacy

    Attacks on ‘Black Smithsonian’ an effort to sanitize racism

    Bill Barrow

    AP News

    Civil rights advocates and historians expressed concern about a chilling effect across other institutions that study Black history

    Published On: 03/29/2025

  • Journalism • Press Freedom

    Local news publishers share how they survived attacks on press freedom

    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

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