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
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
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 • 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
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





