• a picture of flowers

    Analysis • Democracy • Global • Resistance

    Flowers Bloom on Soldiers’ Graves: Lessons in Power and Consequence

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    Meditations in an Emergency

    Violence consistently undermines the very influence it seeks to project.

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    Corruption • Executive Power • Global • Violence

    America’s Suez Crisis

    Chris Hedges

    The Chris Hedges Report

    Amidst the US-Iran negotiations, Alastair Crooke says, Iran is not incentivized to end the war. Instead, it seeks to upend America's hegemonic dominance of the region — and "break the paradigm."

  • Viktor Orbán with Donald Trump-shaped shadow walking over an American flag

    Democracy • Elections • Europe • Fascism • Global

    Hungary Is America in Miniature

    Garry Kasparov

    The Next Move

    Hungary's test is on Sunday. America's will come in November.

  • Illustration of American congress being puppeteered by a mystery figure

    Democracy • Disinformation • Press Freedom • Recommended

    From “Fake News” to Full Control: How the GOP Trained the Media to Serve Its Narrative

    Thom Hartmann

    The Hartmann Report (03/25/2026)

    A 30-year campaign of intimidation turned watchdogs into lapdogs, and now the consequences are impossible to ignore…

  • A group of young Americans taking the oath of enlistment

    Democracy • Executive Power • Global • Legal

    Automatic registration for US military draft-eligible men to begin in December

    Cristina Stassis

    Military Times

    Automatic registration into the U.S. military draft pool for eligible men is slated to begin in December 2026.

  • A picture of Trump with the writing: The enemies Trump has created

    Democracy • Disinformation • Executive Power • Fascism • Russia

    The Enemies He Created: Trump’s Paranoia Spiral

    Jim Stewartson

    MindWar: The Psychological War on Democracy

    Paranoia metabolizes humiliation into persecution—and shame into grandiosity.

  • A picture of Paolo Zampolli, Melania and Donald Trump in Mar-a-lago

    Corruption • Executive Power • Human Rights • ICE • Legal

    Could a former Brazilian model be the whistleblower Melania is afraid of?

    Julie K Brown

    The Epstein Files by Julie K. Brown

    The First Lady’s unprecedented public statement about Jeffrey Epstein yesterday raised a lot of questions about what, if anything, is about to be revealed about Donald and Melania Trump’s relationship with the late sex trafficker.

  • An image of Sam Altman with multiple facial expressions

    Artificial Intelligence • Executive Power • Recommended • Surveillance • Technology

    Sam Altman May Control Our Future – Can He Be Trusted?

    Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz

    The New Yorker

    New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.

  • President Donald Trump pretends to aim a sniper gun while speaking with reporters

    Analysis • Culture • Democracy • Fascism • Global

    Trump and Netanyahu: Two Madmen Playing God

    Jeffrey Sachs

    Savage Minds

    When deranged leaders invoke divine catastrophe as a political instrument, it is not only their enemies who are consumed. We will all be the victims of Netanyahu’s plagues and Trump’s bombing of Iran to the stone ages, unless other leaders place limits on these two madmen.

  • Journalists stand atop a fuel tanker as they cover a nearby fire following an overnight airstrike

    Disinformation • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance • Violence

    Global press freedom violations during the Iran war

    CPJ Staff

    CPJ Committee to Protect Journalists

    The Committee to Protect Journalists is monitoring press freedom violations related to the ongoing military escalation between Israel, the U.S and Iran and its spillover across the Middle East, including its regional and global impact on journalists and media workers.

  • Joseph Schwartz presidential Pardon

    Corruption • Disinformation • Health • Social Justice and Equity

    A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing.

    Jeremy Kohler

    ProPublica

    A Troubling Pattern: Schwartz is one of several nursing home operators convicted of crimes who were granted clemency by Trump.

  • golden dome usa

    Democracy • Executive Power • Impacts • Safety • Violence

    The $1.7 trillion military budget includes a massive slush fund for Trump’s political allies

    Judd Legum and Noel Sims

    Popular Information

    Last week, President Donald Trump declared that the federal government cannot afford to spend “any money for day care” because “we’re fighting wars.”

  • Secretary of War Pete Hegseth answers questions as President Donald Trump

    Corruption • Disinformation • Executive Power • Violence

    Casualty Cover-Up: The Pentagon Is Hiding U.S. Losses Under Trump in the Middle East

    Nick Turse

    The Intercept

    The Pentagon has sent outdated statements on the number of U.S. troops killed or wounded during the Iran war, resulting in undercounts.

  • 2021 coup white house usa

    Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Executive Power • Fascism

    The Next Coup Attempt

    Timothy Snyder

    Timothy Snyder (04/04/2026)

    As the war lengthens, the chance that it will be exploited for a coup attempt increases.

  • American protestor

    Analysis • Democracy • Impacts • Resistance • Social Justice and Equity

    “No Kings,” No Risk, No Change. The Protest Ritual That Lets America Feel Brave Without Doing Anything

    Dr Stacey Patton

    Dr Stacey Patton

    Every few months now, like clockwork, millions of people pour into the streets chanting the same refrains. Holding the same signs. And reposting the same slogans with a fresh coat of urgency.

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