• Democracy

    The Strongman’s Test Run, and Why the Next Deployment Will Be Bigger, Longer & Deadlier

    Thom Hartmann

    The Hartmann Report

    Deploying troops without police training, defying the courts, and threatening the media, Trump is importing dictator tactics in plain sight and daring Americans to stop him...

    Published On: 08/13/2025

  • Democracy • Resistance

    Establishment Democrats Are Going to Torpedo the 2026 Midterms

    Aaron Regunberg

    The New Republic

    Having failed to learn the key lesson from last year’s defeat, party leaders are promoting moderate candidates to run against populist progressives in next year’s elections.

    Published On: 08/13/2025

  • Democracy • Legal

    Texas GOP flexes power to shut down Democrats’ last tool of resistance

    Eleanor Klibanoff

    The Texas Tribune

    “To one degree or another, to be successful as a Republican, you have to emulate Trump’s speech, his attitude and take directions from the White House.”

    Published On: 08/12/2025

  • Democracy • Resistance

    Think Democrats Couldn’t Have Done Anything To Stop Trump’s DC Takeover? Think Again

    Sam Rosenthal

    Progressive Hub

    Democrats could have protected DC by granting statehood when they had the chance.

    Published On: 08/12/2025

  • Democracy • Economy • Resistance

    A new generation of populists is showing Democrats how to defeat Trump

    Jared Abbott and Bhaskar Sunkara

    The Guardian

    In difficult races, Democrats are leaning into economic populism with promising results

    Published On: 08/07/2025

  • 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

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    Hostile Takeover

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    A More Perfect Media: Saving America’s Fourth Estate

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  • 07/28/2025

    Israeli organizations conclude Israel committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza

    Their unequivocal findings add to the inescapable call for participating states to recognize Israel’s action against Palestinians in Gaza for what it is: genocide.