• Journalism • Press Freedom

    New report maps a “severe” shortage of local journalists in the U.S.

    Corey Hutchins

    NiemanLab

    The report from Rebuild Local News and Muck Rack finds that more than 1,000 counties — one out of three in the nation — do not have the equivalent of even one full-time local journalist.

    Published On: 07/10/2025

  • Democracy • Legal

    How Michigan Is Organizing for Ranked Choice Voting

    Mark Bauer

    Rank The Vote

    Getting RCV on the ballot isn’t easy. It’s a complex, legally binding process. The campaign must collect hundreds of thousands of valid signatures in a tight window of time. Every volunteer counts.

    Published On: 07/08/2025

  • Democracy • Economy • Human Rights • Resistance

    The Rev William Barber’s ‘moral movement’ confronts Trump’s America. Can it work?

    Adam Harris

    The Guardian

    Barber, the co-chair of the revived Poor People’s campaign, a national movement to challenge inequality in all its forms through moral protest and policy change, has spent years preparing people for moments like this.

    Published On: 07/05/2025

  • Democracy • Human Rights • Recommended

    America: The Best and Worst of Everything

    John Fugelsang

    John Fugelsang

    We are both the Gettysburg Address and the Trail of Tears; both Ellis Island and ICE raids; both Duke Ellington and Kid Rock.

    Published On: 07/04/2025

  • Democracy • Human Rights • Resistance

    Calls to GI Hotlines Rise as Service Members Consider Defying Trump’s Orders

    Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg

    Truthout

    Conscientious objector applications surge under Trump as military members fear becoming “the saber that he’s rattling.”

    Published On: 07/04/2025

  • Democracy • Featured • Journalism • Legal

    Paramount settles with Trump for $16m over 60 Minutes interview

    Edward Helmore

    The Guardian

    Paramount agreed to pay $16m to Trump’s future library or other cause, but not to him, made no apology

    Published On: 07/02/2025

  • Democracy • Featured • Human Rights • Legal

    “Largest Federal Law Enforcement Agency in the History of the Nation”

    Democracy Now

    Democracy Now

    You will see ICE now being the single largest federal law enforcement agency in the history of the nation, potentially with enough funding to hire more law enforcement agents than the FBI and more detention potentially than the entire Federal Bureau of Prisons.

    Published On: 07/02/2025

  • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Safety

    CPJ outraged at ICE refusal of judge’s order to release journalist Mario Guevara

    Committee to Protect Journalists

    Committee to Protect Journalists

    The Spanish-language reporter is currently the only journalist in custody in the U.S. whose arrest was in relation to their work.

    Published On: 07/02/2025

  • Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance

    ICE wants to work in secret. We shouldn’t let it

    Caitlin Vogus

    Freedom of Press Foundation

    While noncitizen journalists are the easiest targets for now, it’s abundantly clear that the government would like to criminalize journalists it doesn’t like, regardless of the journalists’ residency status.

    Published On: 07/02/2025

  • Democracy • Resistance

    Nation of Fear

    George A. Polisner

    Leadership Matters

    How many believe that the representative democracy in the United States is healthy, strong, and working well as we evolve toward a “more perfect Union”?

    Published On: 07/01/2025

  • Democracy • Featured • Legal

    Taking Away Your Citizenship

    Joyce Vance

    Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance

    We’ve moved onto the next phase of the plan, where the Civil Rights Division, the once proud crown jewel of the Justice Department, will participate in stripping naturalized American citizens of their citizenship.

    Published On: 07/01/2025

  • Democracy • Featured • Violence • White Supremacy

    White, Legally Armed, and Primed for Political Violence

    MIke Spies

    The Trace

    The gun industry’s sales tactics — playing up paranoia and glorifying combat — may be creating a pipeline of extremists willing to open fire.

    Published On: 07/01/2025

  • Human Rights • Threat Management

    After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage

    Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser and Andrea Suozzo

    ProPublica

    A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.

    Published On: 07/01/2025

  • Corruption • Democracy • Europe

    Why Hungary and Orbanism Must Never be a Model for the U.S.

    Michael Maya

    Just Security

    Those who praise Orban and argue that Hungary provides a useful model for the United States are gravely misguided or worse.

    Published On: 06/30/2025

  • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom

    Prosecution Against Journalist Endangers Right To Gather News

    Kevin Gosztola

    The Dissenter

    The “government’s interpretation of the Wiretap Act would unleash frivolous litigation and make the Act a magnet for arbitrary and harassing enforcement actions in the future.”

    Published On: 06/30/2025

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