• Democracy • Disinformation • Europe • Featured • Russia

    America’s Foreign Policy Now Aligns With Russia

    Olga Lautman

    Olga Lautman

    The United States is no longer acting as an independent power. It is behaving like a Kremlin satellite executing the foreign policy goals of a regime that has spent decades trying to dismantle the West...

    Published On: 12/07/2025

  • Disinformation • Economy • Featured

    The Dells’ $250 “Investment” Accounts for Kids Is Scammy Billionaire Philanthropy Theater

    Dr. Stacey Patton

    Dr. Stacey Patton

    Why a few hundred dollars per child won’t fix housing, tuition, or poverty—and how billionaire generosity disguises the systems keeping kids poor.

    Published On: 12/06/2025

  • Artificial Intelligence • Corruption • Democracy • Recommended • Technology

    The Authoritarian Stack

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    The Authoritarian Stack (11/21/2025)

    How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

    Published On: 12/05/2025

  • Personal Resilience • Resistance

    Presence As Survival

    Federick Joseph

    In Retrospect

    Being here in a time that pushes us toward performance and harm.

    Published On: 12/03/2025

  • Corruption • Disinformation

    Will Trump’s Next Fed Chair Transform America Into Argentina?

    Dean Baker

    The National Memo

    If Trump gives Fed Chair Hassett a call telling him that he wants the interest rate to be 1.0 percent, Hassett will respond with a “Yes Sir.”

    Published On: 12/03/2025

  • Artificial Intelligence • Economy • Technology

    Peter Thiel Gets Out of Dodge

    Carole Cadwalladr

    How to Survive the Broligarchy (November 16, 2025)

    Yesterday, I published on the "Great AI Bubble". Today, Silicon Valley's Dr Evil dumps his stock

    Published On: 12/02/2025

  • Human Rights • Threat Management • Violence

    A Tale of Two ICEs

    Laura Flanders

    Laura Flanders

    I was near two ICE operations this Thanksgiving. One I saw, the other I didn’t.

    Published On: 12/01/2025

  • Corruption • Democracy

    Why MAGA is coming apart at the seams

    Paul Waldman

    Public Notice

    Turns out they're not in it for Trump, they're in it for themselves.

    Published On: 11/28/2025

  • Corruption • Europe • Global • Recommended • Russia

    Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine

    Drew Hinshaw, Benoit Faucon, Rebecca Ballhaus, Thomas Grove, Joe Parkinson

    The Wall Street Journal

    The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.

    Published On: 11/28/2025

  • Artificial Intelligence • Disinformation • Social Media

    Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation

    Robert Booth

    The Guardian

    Study finds that a week of political content can bring about a shift in views that previously would have taken three years

    Published On: 11/27/2025

  • Culture • Personal Resilience • Recommended • Violence

    If Epstein’s survivors don’t receive justice that is a ticking timebomb

    V (formerly Eve Ensler)

    The Guardian

    That once you are raped, once your body is taken against your will, once you are invaded and dominated your body ceases to be your own.

    Published On: 11/26/2025

  • Economy • Recommended

    What Happens When the AI Bubble Blows Up on Main Street?

    Thom Hartmann

    The Hartmann Report

    When this bubble bursts, the collapse won’t hit Google’s coders — it’ll hit the electricians, nurses, teachers, retirees, renters, and low-income families who never got a penny from the boom…

    Published On: 11/26/2025

  • Corruption • Disinformation • Legal

    Trump’s FBI Spent Nearly $1 Million on Redacting Epstein Files

    Hafiz Rashid

    The New Republic

    A new report reveals the FBI’s frantic “special redaction project” when they thought the Epstein files would be released.

    Published On: 11/26/2025

  • Democracy • Resistance

    Revolutionary Weather (and the Baboon in the Ruins)

    Rebecca Solnit

    Meditations in an Emergency

    Many Republicans saw that Trump was in decline, possibly rapid decline, and that their future lay not in the slavish deference we've seen for nine years but in separating themselves from him.

    Published On: 11/25/2025

  • Featured • Health • Human Rights • Threat Management

    Another COP wrecked by fossil fuel interests and our leaders’ cowardice

    Genevieve Guenther

    The Guardian

    The fingerprints of Russia and Saudi Arabia are all over the decision text in Brazil. But a group of nations led by Colombia and the Netherlands offer hope

    Published On: 11/24/2025

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