Democracy • Economy • Europe • Global
We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower
Garrett M. Graff
Wired
With Donald Trump’s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States.
Published On: 01/22/2026
Democracy • Global • Human Rights • Violence
Spheres of Influence
Anne Applebaum
Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum
This is a criminally short-sighted policy. For seventy years, American prosperity and influence have been based on a network of allies who worked with us, not because they were coerced, but because they shared our values.
Published On: 01/06/2026
Democracy • Global • Human Rights • Violence
America the Rogue State
Chris Hedges
The Chris Hedges Report
Our decaying empire stumbles forward like a wounded beast, unable to learn from its disasters, crippled by arrogance and incompetence, torching the rule of law and fantasizing that indiscriminate industrial violence will regain a lost hegemony.
Published On: 01/05/2026
Global • Health • Human Rights • Violence
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Brett Murphy, photography by Peter DiCampo
ProPublica
Rubio issued sweeping stop-work orders to aid programs worldwide. Musk declared that his DOGE team had fed USAID “into the woodchipper.”
Published On: 12/15/2025
Corruption • Europe • Global • Russia
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
Drew Hinshaw, Benoit Faucon, Rebecca Ballhaus, Thomas Grove, Joe Parkinson
The Wall Street Journal
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
Published On: 11/28/2025
Global • Health
Trump’s Anti-Green Agenda Could Lead to 1.3 Million More Climate Deaths
Sharon Lerner
ProPublica
Most of the people expected to suffer these temperature-related deaths live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat from climate change.
Published On: 11/19/2025
Global • Journalism • Press Freedom • Recommended • Surveillance
2025 Press Freedom Predators
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is unveiling the profiles of 34 press freedom predators who attacked journalists and the right to information in 2025. What do they have in common? A hatred of press freedom.
Published On: 11/07/2025
Global • Safety • Threat Management
Putin’s UnPeaceful Atom
Karl Grossman and Harvey Wasserman
Counterpunch
The Ukraine war has underscored yet another “Peaceful Atom” pitfall known for decades—the threat of a rogue nation turning atomic reactors into weapons of apocalyptic mass terror...
Published On: 10/06/2025
Global • Human Rights • Resistance
From the Gaza Flotilla: “I’m Here Because My Jewish Heritage Demands It”
David Adler
The Nation
I hope that fellow Jews will join me in redefining their approach to atonement and move toward courageous action to put an end to this horrific genocide.
Published On: 09/30/2025





