• ICE agents

    Democracy • ICE • Violence

    “ICE Was My Idea”: The Kind of Moment History Writes About Later

    Thom Hartmann

    The Hartmann Report

    The shift to fascism isn’t loud or obvious; it’s gradual, justified, and dangerously easy to accept...

    Published On: 03/27/2026

  • Journalists stand atop a fuel tanker as they cover a nearby fire following an overnight airstrike

    Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance

    Global press freedom violations during the Iran war

    CPJ Staff

    CPJ Committee to Protect Journalists

    The Committee to Protect Journalists is monitoring press freedom violations related to the ongoing military escalation between Israel, the U.S and Iran and its spillover across the Middle East, including its regional and global impact on journalists and media workers.

    Published On: 03/19/2026

  • Corruption • Surveillance • Technology

    Gaza: The World’s Most Obscene Real Estate Deal

    Resistance Media

    Resistance Media

    Techno fascism, genocide and Trump’s “Board of Peace”

    Published On: 03/10/2026

  • Cyber Security • Democracy • Threat Management

    The Desire for Terror

    Timothy Snyder

    Thinking About

    And the defense of democracy

    Published On: 03/08/2026

  • Disinformation • Press Freedom • Violence

    Imperial Overreach (w/ Alastair Crooke)

    Chris Hedges

    The Chris Hedges Report The Chris Hedges Report

    The Iran War has just begun — but already, Iran’s military prowess, and America’s and Israel’s impulsive imperial hubris, is on full display.

    Published On: 03/07/2026

  • Corruption • Democracy

    They Built It. Now They Want to Bomb It.

    Craig Unger

    Craig Unger (February 24, 2026)

    Today's Iran crisis didn't start with just the mullahs. It started with a secret deal that Republican operatives made with them— a deal that changed history and has now lead to war.

    Published On: 03/02/2026

  • Democracy • Disinformation

    Trump Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the Midterms

    Doug Bock Clark

    ProPublica

    “The meeting shows that the same people who tried to overturn the 2020 election have only grown better organized and are now embedded in the machinery of government.”

    Published On: 02/28/2026

  • Human Rights • ICE • Legal • Violence

    The Children of Dilley

    Mica Rosenberg

    ProPublica (February, 9, 2026)

    ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.

    Published On: 02/24/2026

  • Democracy • Disinformation • Economy

    The National Debt Is the Evidence of the Crime: Who Pocketed the $38 Trillion?

    Thom Hartmann

    The Hartmann Report

    The national debt isn’t the cause of our problems: it’s the receipt. It’s the paper trail of the largest upward transfer of wealth in 250 years of American history…

    Published On: 02/24/2026

  • Artificial Intelligence • Legal

    The Extortion Presidency

    Lawrence Lessig

    Lawrence Lessig

    Anthropic in the cross-hairs.

    Published On: 02/19/2026

  • Democracy • Economy • Human Rights

    Jesse Jackson Gave Peace a Chance

    John Nichols

    The Nation

    The iconic civil rights leader, who has died at 84, made anti-war and pro-diplomacy politics central to his presidential bids and his lifelong activism.

    Published On: 02/17/2026

  • Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Journalism • Press Freedom

    Paramount is mangling CBS — and CNN may be next

    Matt Gertz

    Media Matters

    Trump’s corruption makes capitulation a media business plan.

    Published On: 02/17/2026

  • Global • Health

    An El Niño is Brewing

    Bill McKibben

    The Crucial Years

    Take this as your first warning that not only the temperature but the politics of the planet are likely to change dramatically, and soon.

    Published On: 02/16/2026

  • 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

  • Democracy • ICE • Resistance

    The key to defeating Trump? Mass non-cooperation

    Mark Engler and Paul Engler

    The Guardian

    The extraordinary level of grassroots solidarity and creative resistance in anti-ICE protests in Minnesota has given people a new appreciation for the power that mass non-cooperation can have in resisting the Trump administration’s drive toward authoritarianism.

    Published On: 02/15/2026

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