• Culture • Democracy • Global • Human Rights • Recommended

    Hostile Takeover

    Kenny Ausubel

    Bioneers

    At this hinge moment when the climate emergency demands an immediate systemic civilizational overhaul, this retrograde counter-revolution is working to drill, baby, drill, make feudalism great again, and colonize Mars.

    Published On: 08/06/2025

  • Democracy • Disinformation • Journalism • Press Freedom

    Will journalism become impossible in the U.S.?

    Mark Jacob

    Stop the Presses

    Trump’s war on the free press follows foreign dictators’ playbook.

    Published On: 08/04/2025

  • Democracy • Disinformation

    Trump is Getting Desperate

    Paul Krugman

    Paul Krugman

    We're in an extremely dangerous moment.

    Published On: 08/04/2025

  • Democracy

    Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse

    The New Republic and Greg Sargent

    The New Republic

    A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by TNR signals top-level discussions about a potential escalation of the Pentagon’s domestic anti-immigration role, and lays out new details.

    Published On: 08/02/2025

  • Democracy

    Corporate America has largely abandoned its post-January 6 promises on democracy

    Esther Eriksson von Allmen

    CREW

    “By continuing to financially support anti-democratic lawmakers, these companies and trade groups fail to grasp the serious business consequences of such a dangerous political trajectory.”

    Published On: 07/29/2025

  • Democracy • Resistance

    Why Anchored Hope is Not The Thing With Feathers

    Lori Corbet Mann

    Your Time Starts Now

    Hope isn’t something we wait for. It’s something we build — together, deliberately, even when we don’t feel it.

    Published On: 07/28/2025

  • Democracy • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom

    The Paramount Skydance Sale Makes the Case for Public Media

    Laura Flanders

    Laura Flanders Substack

    We must radically recommit to public media before every newsroom, every voice, is up for sale to the highest bidder or the ruling party’s favorite mogul. The time is now.

    Published On: 07/25/2025

  • Corruption • Democracy

    Trump’s Epstein Fiasco Takes Darker Turn as Dem Senator Drops New Bomb

    Greg Sargent

    The New Republic

    The Oregon Democrat said that his investigators had discovered that four big banks had flagged to the Treasury Department $1.5 billion in potentially suspicious money transfers involving Epstein, much of which appeared to be related to his massive sex-trafficking network.

    Published On: 07/23/2025

  • Democracy • Legal • Threat Management

    The Truth Behind Trump’s “Arrest Obama” Distraction

    Jack Hopkins

    Jack Hopkins Now

    While MAGA melts down over Epstein, Trump gives the mob a chew toy—and lays the groundwork for something darker.

    Published On: 07/21/2025

  • Democracy • Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance

    Whither Colbert? Whither Democracy

    Jeff Jarvis

    Medium

    Mass media are dead: corrupted, complicit, malign, worthless

    Published On: 07/19/2025

  • Democracy • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom

    Six months of Trump’s war on the press

    Reporters Without Borders

    Reporters Without Borders

    This exchange of ideas, tactics, and rhetorical techniques to attack the press has created an apparent authoritarian feedback loop.

    Published On: 07/17/2025

  • Democracy • Human Rights • Legal • Safety

    The Architecture of Fear: How Detention Becomes a Template for Control

    James B. Greenberg

    James's Substack

    Once in place, the system doesn’t sit idle. It seeks new uses.

    Published On: 07/16/2025

  • Cyber Security • Democracy • Europe • Global

    Spain: Huawei must not be allowed access to wiretap data in the EU

    Article 19

    Article 19

    "Beyond immediate censorship and surveillance fears, Spain risks normalising Huawei tools and technologies in ways that are detrimental to human rights and fundamental freedoms in the EU and around the world."

    Published On: 07/16/2025

  • Democracy • Legal

    Dems to Fight Texas’ ‘Illegal, Unconstitutional and Egregious Effort to Rig the Elections’

    Jen Rice

    Democracy Docket

    Republicans already hold 25 out of Texas’ 38 congressional seats – a much higher share of seats than their vote-share in the state should net.

    Published On: 07/15/2025

  • Democracy • Legal

    Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department’s Anti-Voting Shift

    Democracy Docket

    Democracy Docket

    Today, rather than standing up for voting access, Trump's DOJ is supporting and defending voter suppression laws and bringing new lawsuits to impose stricter voting rules.

    Published On: 07/14/2025

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