Global • Human Rights • Recommended
The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Hana Kiros
The Atlantic
Despite the administration’s repeated promises to continue food aid, and Rubio’s testimony that he would not allow existing food to go to waste, even more food could soon expire.
Published On: 07/14/2025
Democracy • Legal
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department’s Anti-Voting Shift
Democracy Docket
Democracy Docket
Today, rather than standing up for voting access, Trump's DOJ is supporting and defending voter suppression laws and bringing new lawsuits to impose stricter voting rules.
Published On: 07/14/2025
Journalism • Resistance • Social Media
Please Shout Fire. This Theater Is Burning
Rebecca Solnit
Meditations in an Emergency
The mainstream media are overall failing to raise the alarm, failing to connect the dots, failing to show how all the injuries add up to profound danger to the nation's people, its institutions, and its environment.
Published On: 07/13/2025
Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom
LA Journalists Reflect on Protest Attacks
Freedom of the Press Foundation
Freedom of the Press Foundation
Journalists covering recent demonstrations in California have been assaulted, detained, shot with crowd-control munitions, and had their equipment searched — simply for doing their jobs.
Published On: 07/11/2025
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
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- 05/20/2025
Staying with the Trouble
Some leave authoritarian regimes because of persecution. But some leave to fight from out of reach of the regime, and examples abound including from occupied France during the Second World War and Latin American countries ruled by dictators in the 1970s and 1980s.