• Economy • Global

    Media coverage of Trump’s tariffs has grown more skeptical – but not nearly skeptical enough

    Dan Froomkin

    Press Watch

    The tariffs are not the product of serious policymaking. They are the irrational and capricious result of Trump’s delusional thinking.

    Published On: 08/01/2025

  • Featured • Legal

    The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US

    Elie Mystal

    The Nation

    The rule of law presupposes that there are rules that provide a consistent, repeatable, and knowable set of outcomes. That’s no longer the case.

    Published On: 07/31/2025

  • 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

  • Journalism • Original • Press Freedom • Resistance • Safety • Social Media • Threat Management

    America’s Press Freedom is Under Attack

    Ron Williams

    Resistance Media

    The environment for press freedom in the United States is entering a perilous new phase. The attacks have been unprecedented, widespread and continue to escalate.

    Published On: 07/24/2025

  • 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

  • Disinformation • Legal

    From Campaign Rhetoric to Fascist Threats: Trump Targets Obama

    Olga Lautman

    Olga Lautman Substack

    And YES, Russia attacked the 2016 election to install Trump

    Published On: 07/23/2025

  • Human Rights • Safety • Violence

    As mass starvation spreads across Gaza, our colleagues and communities we work with are wasting away

    Doctors Without Borders

    Doctors Without Borders

    An aid worker providing psychosocial support spoke of the devastating impact on children: “Children tell their parents they want to go to heaven, because at least heaven has food.”

    Published On: 07/23/2025

  • Corruption • Legal

    From Truth Social to bitcoin empire: Trump’s $2 billion pivot

    Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby and Noel Sims

    Popular Information

    Trump has the authority to take actions that will drive the price of bitcoin higher. If recent history is any guide, that is exactly what Trump will do.

    Published On: 07/22/2025

  • Global • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom

    AFP Journalists’ Union Warns That Its Reporters Are at Risk of Starvation in Gaza

    Haaretz

    Haaretz

    'Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us can recall seeing a colleague die of hunger. We refuse to see them die,' the French news agency's journalists union said.

    Published On: 07/22/2025

  • 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

  • Corruption • Legal

    The Epstein Cover-Up at the FBI

    Allison Gill

    muellershewrote.com

    Inside the chaotic review process of the Epstein and Maxwell files at the Bureau

    Published On: 07/20/2025

  • Press Freedom

    Colbert and Capitulation

    Jon Passantino

    Status

    The optics are hard to ignore: a top-rated show, led by one of Trump’s most vocal critics, axed just weeks after Paramount settled a lawsuit with Trump and began courting conservative media figures for leadership roles in the post-merger company.

    Published On: 07/19/2025

  • 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

  • Journalism • Press Freedom • Recommended

    Colbert’s Termination is a Corporate Assault on Dissent

    Jeff Cohen

    Common Dreams

    In recent months, we’ve seen one media conglomerate after another offer what amounted to multimillion-dollar bribes to Trump by settling frivolous Trump lawsuits that these companies could not possibly have lost in court.

    Published On: 07/19/2025

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