Democracy • Disinformation • Journalism • Press Freedom
Journalism Is Dead. Long Live Journalism
Rebecca Solnit
Meditations in an Emergency
Right now, a host of brilliant, dedicated souls do fantastic work reporting and interpreting the news in independent newsletters, podcasts, magazines and even mainstream media. In other ways, journalism is in an age of slop and slime and decline.
Published On: 02/16/2026
Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom
The FBI’s raid of journalist’s home was the product of decades of backsliding
Seth Stern and Chip Gibbons
The Guardian
The trend of invading newsrooms, in violation of federal law, has now spread to the highest levels of the federal government
Published On: 01/15/2026
Journalism • Press Freedom • Recommended • Resistance
Let’s Make the End of CPB the Start of Public Media’s Revival
Craig Aaron
Pressing Issues (August, 2025)
When one door closes, they say, sometimes you have to bring a lot of people to push another one open. Let’s make a plan and meet on the sidewalk.
Published On: 01/07/2026
Corruption • Disinformation • Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance
Maria Ressa Calls for ‘Radical Collaboration’ to Combat Misinformation and Preserve Press Freedom
Rowan Philp
Global Investigative Journalism Network
“Everything we knew as an industry has been destroyed. So we don’t stand still. This is a time for radical collaboration.”
Published On: 11/21/2025
Artificial Intelligence • Disinformation • Journalism • Press Freedom
The Pentagon’s Preferred Propaganda Model
Anne Applebaum
The Atlantic (Gift) October 27, 2025
Modern authoritarian regimes often offer not a unified propaganda line but rather contradictory versions of reality... The cumulative effect is to leave citizens with no clear idea of what is actually happening.
Published On: 11/16/2025
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
Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance
Manufacturing Dissent: How America’s Most Popular “Opposition” Media Protects Oligarch Power
Christopher Armitage
The Existentialist Republic
Power no longer exclusively manufactures agreement. American oligarchs and their media companies have now learned to manufacture the allowable form of disagreement itself.
Published On: 10/28/2025
Recommended
- 02/18/2026
The Prairieland 19 Case is a Test for Criminalizing Dissent
Nine members of the “Prairieland 19,” anti-ICE protesters in Texas who the Trump administration is dubiously accusing of domestic terrorism, are going on trial this week. The case is a test for how easily Trump might criminalize dissent going forward.
- 02/12/2026
War is 100% “America” and Michigan Wants its Fair Share
Questioning war and why we fight is imperative. It will require a courageous confrontation with a powerful taboo, a palpable force field that snarls and growls. But this is the end of the line. War at this scale is ecocide, a death wish.





