• 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

  • Artificial Intelligence • Corruption • Democracy • 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 • 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

  • 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

  • Democracy • Europe • Human Rights • Legal • Resistance

    My Afternoon With The Last Living Prosecutor of Nazi War Criminals

    Michael Moore

    Michael Moore

    Basically, the Nuremberg idea was: No one is above the law — not even states. Not even powerful leaders.

    Published On: 11/21/2025

  • Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Russia

    Did Epstein’s Knowledge of Trump Become Putin’s Most Dangerous Weapon ?

    Thom Hartmann

    The Hartmann Report

    When we place Trump’s bizarre, unprecedented secrecy next to Epstein’s emails in which the billionaire pedophile tells European and Russian contacts that he could offer “insight” into Trump, the outlines of a deeply troubling possibility emerge.

    Published On: 11/14/2025

  • Culture • Democracy • White Supremacy

    Leaked Texas A&M Document Exposes a Chilling Blueprint

    Dr. Stacey Patton

    Dr. Stacey Patton

    No African American studies. No women’s studies. No queer studies. No sociology of race. No equity-focused education courses. No history courses on segregation. No public health instruction on racial disparities. No discussions of gender identity in psychology, medicine, social work, or literature.

    Published On: 11/14/2025

  • Democracy • Economy • Resistance

    Urgent Times Call for Something Old And Something New from the Labor Movement

    Peter Olney and Rand Wilson

    Labor Notes (October 16, 2025)

    For workers to survive Trump’s MAGA moment and build a fighting labor movement for the future, both electoral politics (something old) and militant actions to disrupt business as usual (something new for many unions) will be key.

    Published On: 11/06/2025

  • Democracy • Resistance

    From Mission Impossible to Mister Mayor

    Katrina Vanden Heuvel, John NIchols for The Nation

    The Nation

    If Zohran Mamdani governs as he campaigned, he will prove that the people have the power to shape their own future.

    Published On: 11/04/2025

  • Culture • Democracy • Human Rights • Resistance

    Only Angels Can Slay Dragons

    Marianne Williamson

    TRANSFORM with Marianne Williamson (10/12/2025)

    Purification of the American heart is the key to our worldly salvation.

    Published On: 11/03/2025

  • Democracy • Violence

    Will the 2028 Election Even Happen? Is There a Plot to Use the Insurrection Act to End Democracy?

    Thom Hartmann

    The Hartmann Report

    Trump appears well aware of his weakness, his collapsing poll numbers, and the precipice the American economy is teetering at the edge of.

    Published On: 10/31/2025

  • Democracy

    The Democratic Establishment Is a Dead Man Walking

    Mike Brock

    Notes from the Circus

    The entire Democratic establishment infrastructure built on donor dependency and focus-group optimization and managing coalitions through accommodation—all of it dead.

    Published On: 10/30/2025

  • Corruption • Democracy

    Trump’s Plan to Subvert the Midterms is Already Under Way

    David A. Graham

    The Atlantic (Gift)

    Our election system is reaching a breaking point.

    Published On: 10/28/2025

  • Democracy • Violence • White Supremacy

    The US Civil War of 2025

    Jesse Hirsh

    Metaviews: Future of Authority

    Understanding Hybrid Civil War

    Published On: 10/26/2025

  • Corruption • Democracy • Legal

    Fifteen years after Citizens United, the Montana Plan poses the latest challenge to dark money

    Natalie Jonas

    Open Secrets

    The proposed amendment to the state Constitution redefines what is considered legitimate business activity and acceptable corporate donations by limiting corporate charters.

    Published On: 10/25/2025

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