• Democracy • Resistance

    Think Democrats Couldn’t Have Done Anything To Stop Trump’s DC Takeover? Think Again

    Sam Rosenthal

    Progressive Hub

    Democrats could have protected DC by granting statehood when they had the chance.

    Published On: 08/12/2025

  • Culture • Recommended • Technology • Threat Management

    Why Are Silicon Valley’s Utopians Prepping for Collapse?

    Gil Duran

    The Nerd Reich

    Silicon Valley billionaires say tech will create a better future. So, why are many of them quietly preparing luxury doomsday bunkers?

    Published On: 08/09/2025

  • Democracy • Economy • Resistance

    A new generation of populists is showing Democrats how to defeat Trump

    Jared Abbott and Bhaskar Sunkara

    The Guardian

    In difficult races, Democrats are leaning into economic populism with promising results

    Published On: 08/07/2025

  • Culture • Democracy • Global • Human Rights • Recommended

    Hostile Takeover

    Kenny Ausubel

    Bioneers

    At this hinge moment when the climate emergency demands an immediate systemic civilizational overhaul, this retrograde counter-revolution is working to drill, baby, drill, make feudalism great again, and colonize Mars.

    Published On: 08/06/2025

  • Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance

    Let’s Make the End of CPB the Start of Public Media’s Revival

    Craig Aaron

    Pressing Issues

    When one door closes, they say, sometimes you have to bring a lot of people to push another one open. Let’s make a plan and meet on the sidewalk. 

    Published On: 08/05/2025

  • Democracy • Disinformation • Journalism • Press Freedom

    Will journalism become impossible in the U.S.?

    Mark Jacob

    Stop the Presses

    Trump’s war on the free press follows foreign dictators’ playbook.

    Published On: 08/04/2025

  • Democracy • Disinformation

    Trump is Getting Desperate

    Paul Krugman

    Paul Krugman

    We're in an extremely dangerous moment.

    Published On: 08/04/2025

  • Legal • White Supremacy

    Supreme Court poised to permanently entrench Republican rule

    Brian Tyler Cohen

    Brian Tyler Cohen

    The latest move by SCOTUS is a "five alarm fire"

    Published On: 08/03/2025

  • Democracy

    Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse

    The New Republic and Greg Sargent

    The New Republic

    A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by TNR signals top-level discussions about a potential escalation of the Pentagon’s domestic anti-immigration role, and lays out new details.

    Published On: 08/02/2025

  • Economy • Global

    Media coverage of Trump’s tariffs has grown more skeptical – but not nearly skeptical enough

    Dan Froomkin

    Press Watch

    The tariffs are not the product of serious policymaking. They are the irrational and capricious result of Trump’s delusional thinking.

    Published On: 08/01/2025

  • Legal

    The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US

    Elie Mystal

    The Nation

    The rule of law presupposes that there are rules that provide a consistent, repeatable, and knowable set of outcomes. That’s no longer the case.

    Published On: 07/31/2025

  • Journalism • Press Freedom • Recommended

    A More Perfect Media: Saving America’s Fourth Estate

    Timothy Karr

    freepress.net

    Saving America’s Fourth Estate from Billionaires, Broligarchy and Trump

    Published On: 07/31/2025

  • Democracy

    Corporate America has largely abandoned its post-January 6 promises on democracy

    Esther Eriksson von Allmen

    CREW

    “By continuing to financially support anti-democratic lawmakers, these companies and trade groups fail to grasp the serious business consequences of such a dangerous political trajectory.”

    Published On: 07/29/2025

  • Democracy • Resistance

    Why Anchored Hope is Not The Thing With Feathers

    Lori Corbet Mann

    Your Time Starts Now

    Hope isn’t something we wait for. It’s something we build — together, deliberately, even when we don’t feel it.

    Published On: 07/28/2025

  • Global • Human Rights • Recommended • Violence

    Israeli organizations conclude Israel committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza

    Amnesty International

    Amnesty International

    Their unequivocal findings add to the inescapable call for participating states to recognize Israel’s action against Palestinians in Gaza for what it is: genocide.

    Published On: 07/28/2025

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  • 05/02/2025

    RSF World Press Freedom Index 2025

    The global state of press freedom is now classified as a “difficult situation” for the first time in the history of the Index.

  • 04/30/2025

    If leaders stay silent, the US won’t survive Trump’s next 100 days

    We are tottering on the edge of dictatorship. Powerful voices across institutions, from politics to academia and religion, must speak out