• 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

  • ‘Some parents said they’d break my knees’: the teacher who exposed Putin’s primary school propaganda

    Amelia Gentleman

    The Guardian

    Grenade-throwing contests replaced PE and ‘denazification’ speeches became homework. Pavel Talankin’s undercover film about his school’s indoctrination drive won a Bafta and is tipped for an Oscar, but has left him in exile.

    Published On: 03/02/2026

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Meet ‘Amelia’: the AI-generated British schoolgirl who is a far-right social media star

    Ben Quinn

    The Guardian

    The avatar, created to deter young people from extremism, has been subverted and is breaking out of niche online silos.

    Published On: 01/25/2026

  • New Legal Documents Show Marco Rubio Targeted Students for Op-Eds and Protesting

    Jessica Washington

    The Intercept

    Rubio accused students including Mahmoud Khalil of supporting terrorism, but records unsealed after litigation by The Intercept undermine his claims.

    Published On: 01/23/2026

  • The Last Election

    Chris Hedges

    The Chris Hedges Report

    The presidential election in 2024 may be the last free vote taken in the United States. Dictatorships only hold elections with predetermined outcomes or do not hold them at all. Trump is no exception.

    Published On: 01/22/2026

  • We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start

    Claire Finkelstein

    The Guardian

    Developments in Minnesota closely mirror a scenario explored in a 2024 exercise conducted at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania.

    Published On: 01/20/2026

  • Trump Is Screwing with the Midterms. Will He Succeed?

    The Big Picture and Jay Kuo

    The Big Picture

    Will Trump screw with the midterms? Will they be free and fair? Will we even have them?

    Published On: 01/20/2026

  • The FBI’s raid of journalist’s home was the product of decades of backsliding

    Seth Stern and Chip Gibbons

    The Guardian

    The trend of invading newsrooms, in violation of federal law, has now spread to the highest levels of the federal government

    Published On: 01/15/2026

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