‘A scary place’: Jason Stanley on leaving Trump’s America
Philosopher Jason Stanley is among several critics of US President Donald Trump who have left Yale University, and the United...
To Resist the Trump Regime, Look to Iran
For more than four decades, Iranians have resisted through underground clubs, labor strikes, and other everyday acts of defiance.
When toxic polarization becomes a civil war
International peacebuilder, mediator and scholar John Paul Lederach offers practical wisdom for resisting cycles of division and violence before it's...
A Massive Power Grab Could Help North Carolina Republicans Steal an Election
A new GOP majority on the state election board could overturn a state Supreme Court race
Teaching Gandhi in a Texas Detention Center
A visit to the ICE facility housing the Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri, whose case parallels those of Mahmoud...
The New Propaganda War
If people are naturally drawn to the image of human rights, to the language of democracy, to the dream of...
Trump’s Recession Has Begun
It’s already in Seattle. It will now travel east.
What Happens if Stephen Miller Becomes National Security Advisor
Miller’s worldview is binary: loyal or enemy. He doesn’t understand diplomacy, nuance, or restraint. He understands retribution.
Pure fascist propaganda
Yesterday, the United States Department of Defense released an AI-generated image venerating the leadership and strength of Pete Hegseth. Of...
The loss of editorial freedom at 60 Minutes is a sorry milestone
As with so many of the red alerts – lawsuits, threats, changes in long-held practices that protect the public’s right...
DOGE Is Building a Surveillance State
The creation of a huge government database of personal information about U.S. residents is dangerous and very likely against the...
The Four Billionaire Techno-Oligarchs Creating an Alternate, Autocratic Reality
In an excerpt from his new book, The End of Reality, the author warns about the curses of AI and...
If leaders stay silent, the US won’t survive Trump’s next 100 days
We are tottering on the edge of dictatorship. Powerful voices across institutions, from politics to academia and religion, must speak...
So Much That’s Wrong, All In One Story
A move by Amazon to show the cost of tariffs to its customers gets smacked down by the White House.
Local news publishers share how they survived attacks on press freedom
In a country that routinely distrusts and villainizes local news, these attacks did not occur in a vacuum; if they...
