Democracy dies without a free press.

“TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.

And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

― Howard Zinn

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  • Trump’s Bizarre Campaign to Bend the Art World to His Will

    Dana Liebelson
    The New Republic

    The president and his allies want to use institutions like the Kennedy Center and the National Endowment for the Arts to challenge the left’s cultural power.

    Published On: 05/04/2025

    Published On: 05/04/2025

  • The powerful are using lawsuit threats to silence media

    Michel Martin , Taylor Haney , Adriana Gallardo
    NPR

    Local officials and business moguls are also turning to lawsuits or the threat of them to silence the press.

    Published On: 04/09/2025

    Published On: 04/09/2025

  • The Putinization of America

    Thom Hartmann
    Hartmannreport.com

    What happens when a country stops pretending to care about democracy and just lets the billionaires run wild? Look no further than Putin’s Russia — a place where wealth buys protection, loyalty buys power, and corruption isn’t hidden, it’s institutionalized.

    Published On: 04/08/2025

    Published On: 04/08/2025

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  • Meet the Tech Billionaire Just as Dangerous as Elon Musk

    TAYLOR LORENZ
    zeteo.com

    As CEO of Palantir, which he co-founded with Thiel more than two decades ago, Alex Karp is part of a new breed of Valley billionaires integrating their businesses with America's military-industrial complex.

    Published On: 04/01/2025

  • How to Save a Democracy

    Laura Gamboa
    Foreign Affairs

    If American democracy is to prevail, pro-democracy forces must follow the handbook that has enabled oppositions to stop would-be autocrats in other countries.

    Published On: 03/31/2025

  • The New York Times is on the wrong side of history

    Mark Jacob
    Stop the Presses

    During the 2024 campaign, the Times sane-washed Trump’s mental unfitness, downplayed MAGA fascism, and sometimes treated a political turning point for our country as a source of lighthearted amusement.

    Published On: 03/31/2025

  • Attacks on ‘Black Smithsonian’ an effort to sanitize racism

    Bill Barrow
    AP News

    Civil rights advocates and historians expressed concern about a chilling effect across other institutions that study Black history

    Published On: 03/29/2025

  • Local news publishers share how they survived attacks on press freedom

    MAX ABRAMS
    Freedom of the Press Foundation

    In a country that routinely distrusts and villainizes local news, these attacks did not occur in a vacuum; if they can happen in Clarksdale or Marion, they can happen anywhere.

    Published On: 03/28/2025

  • Robert McChesney, the Great Champion of Journalism and Democracy, Has Died

    John Nichols
    The Nation

    Bob, with his remarkable intellect and even more remarkable capacity for communicating his vision of a media that served citizens rather than corporations, was always the driving force. His research and his insatiable curiosity helped him to see the future more clearly than any scholar of his generation...

    Published On: 03/27/2025

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