• Culture • Democracy • Disinformation • Violence

    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

  • Democracy • Human Rights

    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

  • Artificial Intelligence • Culture • Democracy • Social Media • Technology

    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

  • Democracy • Disinformation • Journalism

    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

  • Global • Health • Human Rights • Resistance

    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

  • Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation

    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

  • Democracy • Human Rights • Original • Violence • White Supremacy

    Let’s Never Forget Who We Are

    Ron Williams

    Resistance Media (January 19, 2026)

    “We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there “is” such a thing as being too late..."

    Published On: 01/31/2026

  • Democracy • Disinformation • Journalism • Social Media

    The Media Malpractice That Sent America Tumbling Into Trumpism

    Parker Molloy

    The New Republic

    Political journalists need to stop pretending they don’t know what Republicans are going to do.

    Published On: 01/31/2026

  • Democracy • Europe • Exile

    There Is No Pleasure in Being Right

    LaDonna Witmer

    The Long Scrawl

    When it all comes tumbling down.

    Published On: 01/31/2026

  • Artificial Intelligence • Democracy • Technology • Threat Management

    The Adolescence of Technology

    Dario Amodei

    darioamodei.com

    Humanity needs to wake up, and this essay is an attempt—a possibly futile one, but it’s worth trying—to jolt people awake.

    Published On: 01/31/2026

  • Democracy • ICE • Journalism • Press Freedom

    CPJ condemns arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort over Minnesota protests coverage

    Committee to Protect Journalists

    CPJ

    It is highly unusual for a journalist to be charged with a felony in relation to their reporting.

    Published On: 01/30/2026

  • Democracy • Disinformation • Legal

    The DOJ’s Fulton County Raid to Seize Ballots is Really About Future Elections

    Marc Elias

    Democracy Docket

    The department has demanded this highly sensitive data from all 50 states and has already sued 23 states, including DC, for refusing to comply. Pam Bondi even attempted to leverage the tragic killing of Alex Pretti to obtain this data from Minnesota.

    Published On: 01/30/2026

  • Democracy • Recommended • Resistance

    After the Devastation of Trump’s First Year, These Popular Rebellions Offer Hope

    Sarah van Gelder

    Truthout (January 24, 2026)

    Elections, labor, mutual aid, and local organizing wins in 2025 point to strategies that can work in the coming year.

    Published On: 01/30/2026

  • Democracy • ICE • Recommended • Resistance • Violence • White Supremacy

    The Nation Nominates Minneapolis for the Nobel Peace Prize

    The Editors of The Nation

    The Nation

    With their resistance to violent authoritarianism, the people of Minneapolis have renewed the spirit of Dr. King’s call for “the positive affirmation of peace.”

    Published On: 01/29/2026

  • Democracy • ICE • Violence • White Supremacy

    Tim Walz Fears a Fort Sumter Moment in Minneapolis

    Isaac Stanley-Becker

    The Atlantic (Gift)

    The Minnesota governor warns of a national unraveling.

    Published On: 01/28/2026

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