• 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

  • Journalism

    Bill Moyers Helped Break the Media’s Climate Silence

    Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope

    Columbia Journalism Review

    Launching the Covering Climate Now media collaboration, he urged fellow journalists to “tell the story so people get it.”

    Published On: 06/30/2025

  • Legal • Safety

    Trump attacks on NRC independence pose health, safety risks

    Edwin Lyman

    Utility Dive

    The exodus of key personnel at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will jeopardize its ability to oversee the nuclear power fleet and slow the licensing of new facilities to a crawl.

    Published On: 06/30/2025

  • Democracy • Disinformation • Resistance

    The Rage of Billionaires and the Frenzy to Stop Zohran Mamdani

    Norman Solomon

    Roots Action

    The oligarchs accustomed to such governance are furious that the nation’s capital of capitalism is in danger of serving people instead of megaprofits.

    Published On: 06/30/2025

  • Democracy • Disinformation • Global • Human Rights • Legal

    Trump defends Netanyahu, attacks Israeli prosecutors over corruption trial

    Al Jazeera

    Al Jazeera

    US President Donald Trump links US aid to Netanyahu’s corruption trial in fiery post on his social media site.

    Published On: 06/29/2025

  • Journalism • Technology

    Substack Is Having a Moment—Again. But Time Is Running Out

    Steven Levy

    Wired

    While star reporters continue to flock to Substack, subscription fatigue is only getting worse.

    Published On: 06/27/2025

  • Democracy

    The Broken Man Who’s Breaking America

    Thom Hartmann

    The Hartmann Report

    Once constrained by grown-ups in the room, Trump now surrounds himself with suckups. The result? A perfect storm of immaturity, cruelty, and power…

    Published On: 06/27/2025

  • Legal

    “Disaster Looms”: Justice Jackson’s Warning for the Country

    Pema Levy

    Mother Jones

    “Eventually, executive power will become completely uncontainable, and our beloved constitutional Republic will be no more.”

    Published On: 06/27/2025

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