Artificial Intelligence • Democracy • Featured
The AI industry’s $100 million play to influence the 2026 elections
Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby and Noel Sims
Popular Information
LTF has already secured more than $100 million, including $50 million from venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz and another $50 million from OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman.
Published On: 12/11/2025
Featured • Human Rights • Threat Management
FBI Is Making an Enemies List—and Most Corporate Media Didn’t Even Check It Once
Jim Naureckas
FAIR
Congratulations—you may be headed for Attorney General Pam Bondi’s “list of groups or entities engaging in acts that may constitute domestic terrorism.”
Published On: 12/10/2025
Democracy • Disinformation • Europe • Recommended • 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
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
A project led by Prof. Francesca Bria with xof-research.org
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
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





