• Democracy

    Kash Patel Wants You to Trust Him

    Closer to the Edge

    https://closertotheedge.substack.com

    Inside the most dangerous public-private “partnership” in modern U.S. history

    Published On: 04/23/2025

  • Legal

    Teaching Gandhi in a Texas Detention Center

    Nader Hashemi

    New Lines Magazine

    A visit to the ICE facility housing the Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri, whose case parallels those of Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk.

    Published On: 04/23/2025

  • Democracy

    Hundreds of scholars say U.S. is swiftly heading toward authoritarianism

    Frank Langfitt

    All Things Considered

    A survey of more than 500 political scientists finds that the vast majority think the United States is moving swiftly from liberal democracy toward some form of authoritarianism.

    Published On: 04/22/2025

  • Democracy

    A Ticking Clock on American Freedom

    Adrienne LaFrance

    The Atlantic

    It’s later than you think, but it’s not too late.

    Published On: 04/22/2025

  • Journalism

    Thom Hartmann: The Voice of Sanity in a Screaming World

    Closer to the Edge

    Closer to the Edge

    “The most powerful way to change the world is to secretly commit little acts of compassion. You must behave as if your every act, even the smallest, impacted a thousand people for a hundred generations. Because it does.”

    Published On: 04/22/2025

  • Journalism • Press Freedom

    Is the Press Next?

    Robert Kuttner

    The American Prospect

    As Trump tries to destroy one free institution after another—universities, law firms, independent public agencies, trade unions—sooner or later he will come for the press.

    Published On: 04/22/2025

  • Legal • Resistance

    US Philanthropists Warn Against Capitulating to Trump

    David Smith

    The Guardian

    Foundation leaders say charitable organisations could be next in the firing line – but must ‘stand together’ to resist

    Published On: 04/19/2025

  • Press Freedom

    Journalist Safety Advisory: Traveling to the US

    Committee to Protect Journalists

    CPJ

    Educate yourself on border security protocols and learn about your rights when encountering law enforcement at border crossings.

    Published On: 04/17/2025

  • Press Freedom

    ‘I have always acted within the law’

    Meduza

    Meduza

    Who are the four Russian journalists jailed for their alleged work with Navalny's organization?

    Published On: 04/16/2025

  • Corruption • Legal

    Kleptocracy, Inc.

    Anne Applebaum

    The Atlantic

    It’s now up to the media, to outside organizations, and to whistleblowers to keep reporting the slide into kleptocracy to the public.

    Published On: 04/14/2025

  • Democracy

    The rise of end times fascism

    Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

    The Guardian

    The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them.

    Published On: 04/13/2025

  • Global • Safety

    Have things reached the point where it’s time to leave the U.S.?

    David Kirp

    San Francisco Chronicle

    No one, except perhaps the authors of Project 2025, could have predicted that the so-called guardrails of democracy were made of papier-mâché, that this country could so quickly be teetering on the precipice of autocracy.

    Published On: 04/12/2025

  • Democracy • Safety

    Disposable People: We Are Not Safe

    Critical Resistance

    Critical Resistance

    The Trump administration is quietly creating offshore detention, disappearance, and exile—and Americans could soon be next.

    Published On: 04/11/2025

  • Democracy

    Military contractors pitch unprecedented prison plan for detained immigrants

    DASHA BURNS and MYAH WARD

    Politico

    Erik Prince wants to cut a deal to transport detainees from the US to El Salvador.

    Published On: 04/11/2025

  • Technology

    The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI

    LUKE O’BRIEN

    Mother Jones

    Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.

    Published On: 04/10/2025

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