Teaching Gandhi in a Texas Detention Center
A visit to the ICE facility housing the Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri, whose case parallels those of Mahmoud...
The New Propaganda War
If people are naturally drawn to the image of human rights, to the language of democracy, to the dream of...
If leaders stay silent, the US won’t survive Trump’s next 100 days
We are tottering on the edge of dictatorship. Powerful voices across institutions, from politics to academia and religion, must speak...
Thom Hartmann: The Voice of Sanity in a Screaming World
“The most powerful way to change the world is to...
“Nothing to FOIA Here”
How Signal, Silence, and Schedule F Are Killing Government Transparency
Trump’s Attacks on Press Freedom Are Paving the Way for Authoritarianism
In 2024, the Democrats ran on the catchphrase “We are not going back.” Even after the party’s resounding defeat, the refrain may have been more prophetic than they imagined. New research shows that once a country begins a descent into authoritarianism it’s extremely difficult to reverse. And the first vector of attack is often the free press.
Robert McChesney, the Great Champion of Journalism and Democracy, Has Died
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...
Move Fast and Destroy Democracy
Silicon Valley’s titans have decided that ruling the digital world is not enough.
Heritage Foundation and Allies Discuss Dismantling the EU
The group behind the radical Project 2025 agenda is increasingly turning its attention to Europe.
Taking Heart
A few people I know are coping by remaining in denial. They continue to normalize what’s happening in the familiar terms of Republican versus Democrat, right versus left, conservative versus liberal or progressive.
Shattered by a perfect storm: How Trump’s cuts are crippling journalism beyond the United States
Before Trump’s inauguration, the US government supported independent journalism in more than 30 countries. Most of this funding was channelled through USAID. According to a USAID factsheet recently mentioned by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and now taken offline, the agency funded training and support for 6,200 journalists and assisted 707 outlets.
Liberals Are Left Out in the Cold as Social Media Veers Right
Hundreds of thousands of posts lauding Mr. Trump’s victory filled Truth Social, the social platform that the president-elect owns. Speculation about what the new administration would accomplish ran rampant on X, which is owned by Elon Musk. Gab, Parler and other right-wing social media sites were flooded with thousands of memes glorifying Mr. Trump.
Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs are pointing that way
The clock is ticking down on a crucial but little-noticed part of President Donald Trump’s first round of executive orders — the one tasking the secretaries of the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security to submit a joint report, within 90 days, recommending “whether to invoke the Insurrection Act.”
How a great nonprofit news organization would cover national politics
Unlike commercial news organizations, it would be accessible, explanatory, committed to fighting disinformation, and crusading.
