Democracy dies without a free press.

“TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.

And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

― Howard Zinn

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  • 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

    Published On: 04/10/2025

  • News Outlets Take Unusual Steps to Prepare for Onslaught From Trump

    DAVID ENRICH and KATIE ROBERTSON
    New York Times

    With President-elect Donald J. Trump returning to the White House, media outlets large and small are taking steps to prepare for what they fear could be a legal and political onslaught against them from the new administration and Mr. Trump’s allies inside and outside the government.

    Published On: 01/13/2025

    Published On: 01/13/2025

  • How a great nonprofit news organization would cover national politics

    DAN FROOMKIN
    Press Watch

    Unlike commercial news organizations, it would be accessible, explanatory, committed to fighting disinformation, and crusading.

    Published On: 01/12/2025

    Published On: 01/12/2025

 Recent News

  • RSF World Press Freedom Index 2025

    RSF
    Reporters Without Borders

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

    Published On: 05/02/2025

  • A Massive Power Grab Could Help North Carolina Republicans Steal an Election

    ARI BERMAN
    Mother Jones

    A new GOP majority on the state election board could overturn a state Supreme Court race

    Published On: 05/02/2025

  • They’re Coming for the Truth-Tellers: Bondi’s Plan to Jail Journalists

    Thom Hartmann
    The Hartmann Report

    Most alarming part of all is what Bondi reportedly wants to do next. According to sources close to the Justice Department, she has argued that leakers — or even reporters — who provide information that she doesn’t like could be prosecuted for treason, a crime that carries the death penalty.

    Published On: 05/02/2025

  • Fascist Population Engineering: Yes to White Christian Births

    RUTH BEN-GHIAT
    Lucid

    If the goal is a White ethnostate, it is not enough to change the political system from democracy to autocracy: you also have to change the culture and the composition of the population.

    Published On: 05/02/2025

  • The loss of editorial freedom at 60 Minutes is a sorry milestone

    Margaret Sullivan
    The Guardian

    As with so many of the red alerts – lawsuits, threats, changes in long-held practices that protect the public’s right to know – the problem involves Donald Trump’s overweening desire to control the media.

    Published On: 05/01/2025

  • An SOS From American Democracy

    Mike Brock
    https://www.notesfromthecircus.com

    Why the Global Democratic Community Must Respond Before It’s Too Late

    Published On: 05/01/2025

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