• The Perfect Storm

    Gloria Horton-Young

    She Who Stirs the Storm (January 21, 2026)

    When warnings are everywhere, and still no one moves.

    Published On: 02/25/2026

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Trump Admin to Spend $40B to Turn Warehouses Into Massive Immigration Jails

    Julia Conley , COMMONDREAMS

    Truthout

    “Germany’s concentration camps didn’t start as instruments of mass murder, and neither have ours; both started as facilities for people the government’s leader said were a problem..."

    Published On: 02/14/2026

  • EU states must retract outrageous attacks on UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese

    Amnesty International

    Amnesty International

    “This is a critical moment for humanity, with international law and human rights institutions under attack like never before. The use of misinformation to further delegitimize them poses a profound threat to human rights and the rule of law itself."

    Published On: 02/13/2026

  • War is 100% “America” and Michigan Wants its Fair Share

    Deb Hansen

    Riverwisedetroit.org (Fall 2025)

    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.

    Published On: 02/12/2026

  • Suffocating an Island: What the U.S. Blockade Is Doing to Cuba

    Media Benjamin

    Counterpunch

    Who will win this demonic game Trump and Rubio are playing with the lives of eleven million Cubans?

    Published On: 02/12/2026

  • Something big is happening in AI — and most people will be blindsided

    Matt Shumer

    Fortune

    We’re past the point where this is an interesting dinner conversation about the future. The future is already here. It just hasn’t knocked on your door yet. It’s about to.

    Published On: 02/11/2026

  • Rupert Murdoch Heads West

    Karl Grossman

    FAIR

    Murdoch’s media machine is the “most dishonest, unprincipled and corrupt of any media empire in the history of the English-speaking world.”

    Published On: 02/09/2026

  • When Love Thy Neighbor Is a Cry of Resistance

    Rebecca Solnit

    Meditations in an Emergency

    At the very heart of almost all our crises is a conflict between two worldviews, the worldview in which everything is connected and the world of isolated individualism, of social darwinism and the war of each against each.

    Published On: 02/02/2026

  • The Manchurian Billionaire: How Trump’s Rise Mirrors Every Classic Intelligence Takeover

    Thom Hartmann

    The Hartmann Report

    Debt, ego, sexual compromise, and fear: why Trump’s behavior makes sense only when you realize he’s been in Putin's pocket for years…

    Published On: 02/02/2026

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    ICE Agents Can Be Charged With Murder

    As a killing in Minneapolis is documented, the law clearly stipulates that federal agents do not have universal immunity.

  • 01/07/2026

    Let’s Make the End of CPB the Start of Public Media’s Revival

    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. 

  • 01/06/2026

    The Antidote to Fear is Courage

    These documents imply that the ​“terrorists” are the brave teachers, neighbors, librarians, and community members blowing whistles, protecting students, keeping books on shelves, advocating for trans rights, and organizing for economic and social equity.

  • 01/05/2026

    Meet Paul Singer, the Billionaire Trump Megadonor Set to Make a Killing on Venezuela Oil

    “Paul Singer’s shady purchase of Citgo has everything to do with this coup.”

  • 12/21/2025

    Extremists are using AI voice cloning to supercharge propaganda

    Researchers warn generative tools are helping militant groups from neo-Nazis to the Islamic State spread ideology.