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How to Be Braver Than You Ever Expected
Ami Fields-Meyer was cursed with knowing what was next.
His new book, co-written with Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Julia Angwin, On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear, begins before the latest Trump regime...
If you don’t think they think you’re a sucker, you’re not paying attention
An ancient curse: may your life have no subtext.
In Trump’s America, we’re all living the curse. We’re stranded on the surface. And Google Search has become a metaphor for all of it.
What was once useful has now become a trick, and like...
The police state has always been here. Now it’s coming for everyone.
This week, a federal judge in North Texas handed down sentences of 30, 50, 70, and 100 years to eight people who attended a July 4 demonstration at an ICE detention facility last summer. Chief District Judge Reed O’Connor said from the benc...
We Could Still Save Millions of the Kids Musk Condemned to Death
The good news is we’re finally having a discussion about how many kids alleged trillionaire Elon Musk sent to their deaths.
And the person we have to thank for this? Elon Musk.
As the unfortunate yet useful idiom goes: a hit dog hollers....
The Best Way to Close a Concentration Camp Is to Keep It From Opening
Under Kristi Noem and her de facto boss, Stephen Miller, the Department of Homeland Security spent $1.07 billion buying eleven warehouses this year, planning to convert the largest of them into a single site that could hold 8,500 people — t...
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Jason Sattler is LOLGOP on Twitter and the other 30 platforms we had to join because a rich snitch bought everything. Jason's writing has appeared in USA TODAY, Wired.com, the New York Daily News, and Alternet.
Noah Berlatsky is a freelance writer in Chicago. He writes for Public Notice, Prism Reports, Business Insider, the Chicago Reader, and various other places. Also he’s kind of a poet now.
Democracy is like exercise. You can’t just do it once every four years and claim it doesn’t work when you don’t see results.
An American journalist reporting on the global struggle for democracy from Vienna, Austria.
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