• 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

  • Technology

    The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI

    LUKE O’BRIEN

    Mother Jones

    Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.

    Published On: 04/10/2025

  • 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

  • Democracy

    You Are Inside the Collapse

    Critical Resistance

    Critical Resistance

    The courts, the institutions, the protections—they’re not failing. They’re being dismantled.

    Published On: 04/10/2025

  • Economy

    Hitler’s Terrible Tariffs

    Timothy W. Ryback

    The Atlantic

    By seeking to “liberate” Germans from a globalized world order, the Nazi government sent the national economy careening backwards.

    Published On: 04/10/2025

  • Canada • Democracy • Exile • Safety

    Be a Patriot

    George Packer

    The Atlantic

    Fleeing America before you are threatened is a lot like obeying in advance.

    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

  • Journalism • Press Freedom

    The powerful are using lawsuit threats to silence media

    Michel Martin , Taylor Haney , Adriana Gallardo

    NPR

    Local officials and business moguls are also turning to lawsuits or the threat of them to silence the press.

    Published On: 04/09/2025

  • Democracy

    The Putinization of America

    Thom Hartmann

    Hartmannreport.com

    What happens when a country stops pretending to care about democracy and just lets the billionaires run wild? Look no further than Putin’s Russia — a place where wealth buys protection, loyalty buys power, and corruption isn’t hidden, it’s institutionalized.

    Published On: 04/08/2025

  • Journalism

    “Nothing to FOIA Here”

    Closer to the Edge

    Closer to the Edge

    How Signal, Silence, and Schedule F Are Killing Government Transparency

    Published On: 04/08/2025

  • Journalism • Resistance

    The Resistance Will Not Be Televised

    Miranda C. Spencer

    FAIR

    If you relied on articles and broadcasts from the legacy national news media during early 2025, you wouldn’t know the extent of grassroots action prompted by this discontent.

    Published On: 04/04/2025

  • Social Media

    Trump’s TikTok Takeover

    Oliver Darcy

    Status

    TikTok’s fate still remains unclear, but if it stays in the U.S., it won’t be free—it’ll be bound to Donald Trump, giving him and the GOP a propaganda machine like no other.

    Published On: 04/02/2025

  • Technology

    Meet the Tech Billionaire Just as Dangerous as Elon Musk

    TAYLOR LORENZ

    zeteo.com

    As CEO of Palantir, which he co-founded with Thiel more than two decades ago, Alex Karp is part of a new breed of Valley billionaires integrating their businesses with America's military-industrial complex.

    Published On: 04/01/2025

  • Democracy

    How to Save a Democracy

    Laura Gamboa

    Foreign Affairs

    If American democracy is to prevail, pro-democracy forces must follow the handbook that has enabled oppositions to stop would-be autocrats in other countries.

    Published On: 03/31/2025

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