• Democracy • Human Rights • Journalism

    Bill Moyers Kept the Faith in Democracy. We Need His Example More Than Ever.

    John Nichols

    The Nation

    The legendary journalist believed that speaking truth to power was the essential underpinning of an embattled American experiment.

    Published On: 06/27/2025

  • Artificial Intelligence • Democracy • Disinformation • Technology

    A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy

    Steven Lee Myers and Stuart A. Thompson

    The New York Times

    Content generated by AI has become a factor in elections around the world. Most of it is bad, misleading voters and discrediting the democratic process.

    Published On: 06/27/2025

  • Democracy • Economy

    What Zohran Can Teach Democrats

    Anand Giridharadas

    The.Ink

    This was not an airwaves campaign. It was a stoop campaign. As obvious as this might seem, it’s a lesson that keeps going unlearned.

    Published On: 06/25/2025

  • Global • Human Rights • Recommended

    The Waste Musk Created

    Nicholas Kristof

    The New York Times

    Have our hearts grown so icy that we don’t care as the world’s richest men crush the world’s poorest children?

    Published On: 06/24/2025

  • Legal • Violence • White Supremacy

    Masked Terror

    Sherrilyn Ifill

    Sherrilyn’s Newsletter

    We have every right to know the identity of those officers are who are abducting migrants and U.S. citizens from our streets, and under whose authority they are purporting to act.

    Published On: 06/24/2025

  • Democracy • Legal • Recommended

    Why Elon Musk’s Third Party Won’t Get Off the Launchpad

    Center for Ballot Freedom

    The Ticket

    “As long as we have our current system of single-winner plurality elections, third parties have no meaningful chance to do anything more than show up as occasional spoilers.”

    Published On: 06/24/2025

  • Canada • Exile • Global • Human Rights • Original • Safety

    Out of Harm’s Way

    Ron Williams

    Resistance Media

    As the United States descends more deeply into an authoritarian nightmare, individuals and families are considering the once unthinkable: stay and risk persecution or uproot their lives for another state or country.

    Published On: 06/21/2025

  • Democracy • Human Rights • Safety • Violence

    ICE Believes it will Never Face Accountability Again

    Garrett Graff

    Doomsday Scenario

    The Trump administration is letting an unaccountable secret police form at the heart of our democracy.

    Published On: 06/20/2025

  • Corruption • Democracy

    The Three C’s of the Apocalypse

    George A. Polisner

    Leadership Matters

    But sure, let's have a parade!

    Published On: 06/20/2025

  • Journalism • Original • Press Freedom • Resistance • Social Media • Technology

    You’re Not Paranoid. The Surveillance State is Already Here

    Ron Williams

    Resistance Media

    Essential to maintaining a resistance media capacity will be the ability to successfully wage a running battle with those entities that would seek to surveil, disrupt, censor and destroy opposition voices.

    Published On: 06/18/2025

  • Economy • Featured • Recommended

    Your favorite campgrounds, hiking trails, and forests could soon be up for auction

    Joseph Winters

    Grist

    Republicans want to make 250 million acres of public lands eligible for sale to housing developers.

    Published On: 06/18/2025

  • Canada • Exile • Featured • Resistance • Safety

    Why a Professor of Fascism Left the US

    Jonathan Freedland

    The Guardian

    Marci Shore made news around the world when her family moved to Canada. She discusses Trump, teaching history and how terror atomises society

    Published On: 06/16/2025

  • Economy • Human Rights • Resistance

    Working folks build food solutions, while Congress slashes SNAP

    Gwen Frisbie-Fulton

    The Gander

    Instead of trying to fix this broken system, Congress is punishing the victims of its malfunctioning and is slashing SNAP to enact tax cuts for the rich.

    Published On: 06/16/2025

  • Global • Human Rights • Violence

    Is Humanitarian Aid a Tool to Advance the “Trump Plan” in Gaza?

    Katherine Wilkens

    Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

    The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation fails to meet minimum international standards for aid delivery.

    Published On: 06/12/2025

  • Human Rights • Press Freedom • Violence

    Press groups push DHS over potential First Amendment violations during LA protests

    BrieAnna J. Frank

    USA Today

    Press freedom organizations warn the Department of Homeland Security that federal officers “may have violated the First Amendment rights” of journalists covering protests.

    Published On: 06/11/2025

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