• Democracy • Disinformation • Journalism • Social Media

    The Media Malpractice That Sent America Tumbling Into Trumpism

    Parker Molloy

    The New Republic

    Political journalists need to stop pretending they don’t know what Republicans are going to do.

    Published On: 01/31/2026

  • Democracy • Recommended • Resistance

    After the Devastation of Trump’s First Year, These Popular Rebellions Offer Hope

    Sarah van Gelder

    Truthout (January 24, 2026)

    Elections, labor, mutual aid, and local organizing wins in 2025 point to strategies that can work in the coming year.

    Published On: 01/30/2026

  • Democracy • ICE • Journalism • Press Freedom

    CPJ condemns arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort over Minnesota protests coverage

    Committee to Protect Journalists

    CPJ

    It is highly unusual for a journalist to be charged with a felony in relation to their reporting.

    Published On: 01/30/2026

  • Democracy • Disinformation • Legal

    The DOJ’s Fulton County Raid to Seize Ballots is Really About Future Elections

    Marc Elias

    Democracy Docket

    The department has demanded this highly sensitive data from all 50 states and has already sued 23 states, including DC, for refusing to comply. Pam Bondi even attempted to leverage the tragic killing of Alex Pretti to obtain this data from Minnesota.

    Published On: 01/30/2026

  • Democracy • ICE • Recommended • Resistance • Violence • White Supremacy

    The Nation Nominates Minneapolis for the Nobel Peace Prize

    The Editors of The Nation

    The Nation

    With their resistance to violent authoritarianism, the people of Minneapolis have renewed the spirit of Dr. King’s call for “the positive affirmation of peace.”

    Published On: 01/29/2026

  • Democracy • ICE • Violence • White Supremacy

    Tim Walz Fears a Fort Sumter Moment in Minneapolis

    Isaac Stanley-Becker

    The Atlantic (Gift)

    The Minnesota governor warns of a national unraveling.

    Published On: 01/28/2026

  • Human Rights • ICE • Resistance • Violence • White Supremacy

    The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Alex Pretti and Renee Good

    Ta-Nehisi Coates

    Vanity Fair

    Pretti and Good were labeled “domestic terrorists” of The Homeland—rhetoric employed by the administration to justify the state taking life, by associating the dead with national villainy.

    Published On: 01/26/2026

  • Democracy • Featured • Health • Human Rights • ICE • Resistance • Violence • White Supremacy

    Welcome to the American Winter

    Robert F. Worth

    The Atlantic (Gift)

    In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.

    Published On: 01/25/2026

  • Artificial Intelligence • Culture • Democracy • Disinformation • Europe

    Meet ‘Amelia’: the AI-generated British schoolgirl who is a far-right social media star

    Ben Quinn

    The Guardian

    The avatar, created to deter young people from extremism, has been subverted and is breaking out of niche online silos.

    Published On: 01/25/2026

  • Disinformation • Legal • Press Freedom • Recommended

    New Legal Documents Show Marco Rubio Targeted Students for Op-Eds and Protesting

    Jessica Washington

    The Intercept

    Rubio accused students including Mahmoud Khalil of supporting terrorism, but records unsealed after litigation by The Intercept undermine his claims.

    Published On: 01/23/2026

  • Culture • Human Rights

    Christian Nationalists Have Decided Monks Walking for Peace Are on a One-Way Trip to Hell

    Dr. Stacey Patton

    Dr. Stacey Patton

    The religion that claims to follow a poor, itinerant teacher who walked everywhere, who owned nothing, who told people to put down their swords, now produces followers who cannot tolerate the sight of men doing precisely that. Walking. Owning little. Practicing peace. Not demanding shit. Not conquering and colonizing. Just being.

    Published On: 01/23/2026

  • Democracy • Economy • Europe • Global

    We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower

    Garrett M. Graff

    Wired

    With Donald Trump’s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States.

    Published On: 01/22/2026

  • Legal • Resistance • Violence

    Increasing Calls From the Public Saying “Fight or Resign”

    Christopher Armitage

    The Existentialist Republic

    Elected officials who refuse to use their power should lose it.

    Published On: 01/22/2026

  • Corruption • Democracy • Threat Management

    The Last Election

    Chris Hedges

    The Chris Hedges Report

    The presidential election in 2024 may be the last free vote taken in the United States. Dictatorships only hold elections with predetermined outcomes or do not hold them at all. Trump is no exception.

    Published On: 01/22/2026

  • Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaking at podium

    Canada • Democracy • Economy • Global • Resistance

    O Canada

    Robert Reich

    Robert Reich

    A heartfelt thanks to the truth-telling prime minister to our north.

    Published On: 01/21/2026

Recommended

  • 01/16/2026

    I talked Trump out of invoking the Insurrection Act. He’ll do it this time — but we can stop him.

    America needs to prepare for the coming constitutional crisis. However, it's not hopeless. It's time to go on legal offense.

  • 01/07/2026

    ICE Agents Can Be Charged With Murder

    As a killing in Minneapolis is documented, the law clearly stipulates that federal agents do not have universal immunity.

  • 01/07/2026

    Let’s Make the End of CPB the Start of Public Media’s Revival

    When one door closes, they say, sometimes you have to bring a lot of people to push another one open. Let’s make a plan and meet on the sidewalk. 

  • 01/06/2026

    The Antidote to Fear is Courage

    These documents imply that the ​“terrorists” are the brave teachers, neighbors, librarians, and community members blowing whistles, protecting students, keeping books on shelves, advocating for trans rights, and organizing for economic and social equity.

  • 01/05/2026

    Meet Paul Singer, the Billionaire Trump Megadonor Set to Make a Killing on Venezuela Oil

    “Paul Singer’s shady purchase of Citgo has everything to do with this coup.”