Global • Health • Human Rights • Violence
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Brett Murphy, photography by Peter DiCampo
ProPublica
Rubio issued sweeping stop-work orders to aid programs worldwide. Musk declared that his DOGE team had fed USAID “into the woodchipper.”
Published On: 12/15/2025
Artificial Intelligence • Democracy
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
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 • 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
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