They Have Your Data and Attention. Now They Want Your Government, Too.
Todd Brogan Inequality. org Major corporations are working overtime to undermine global democracy. Picture this: You wake up and roll over to check your phone. You have an unread WhatsApp…
“Nice Face of the Devil:” Google Whistleblower on AI, Gaza and breaking NDA
32-year-old new mother Sophia Liguori left her AI research engineer role at Google DeepMind in protest of the firm’s products being used for AI warfare and surveillance. Image: Supplied Evie…
Europe’s Historic Crossroads: Militarization & Social Crisis
In this crisis of confidence, Uroš Lipušcek says Europeans can either seek autonomy and peace with Russia or follow the current E.U. course of increasing authoritarianism and geopolitical insignificance. Uroš…
The Limits of Going it Alone: Lessons from Dan Osborn’s Defeat in Nebraska
Les Leopold Substack Dan Osborn, the independent candidate and former local union president, once again came within a few percentage points of winning the Nebraska U.S. Senate seat. (He lost…
10 Reasons to Block Hakeem Jeffries as House Speaker
Voters did not reject Republican extremism just to see Democratic leaders keep pouring billions into wars and corporate interests while families struggle to afford housing, healthcare and basic necessities, writes…
Trump And Technofascism Took A Hit — Now We Must Act
Stephen Lerner Waging Nonviolence We have a unique window to take on Trump and the tech billionaires. A central task is to join forces to cut off their funding and…
Majority of Progressive Organizers Want Schumer and Jeffries Replaced With New Leadership
Brad Reed Common Dreams Progressive advocacy group Our Revolution is calling on leadership candidates to “publicly explain how they would use the new majority to challenge corporate influence, lower costs,…
Prop 40 Is Heading for Defeat. Now A Health Care Crisis Awaits California.
Mark Kreidler Captual and Main The likely failure of the billionaire tax means Gov.-elect Xavier Becerra will need to find ways to shore up the state’s health care system. I…
Six Inequality-Fighting Candidates Who Won Tough Midterm Races
These hard-fought victories are signs that Americans are ready for inequality-fighting, transformative change. Sarah Anderson | Inequality.org Originally published Nov. 4, 2026, by Inequality.org, a project of the Institute for…
“Israel Is A Moral Challenge For Our Times”: Jason Stanley On The Blue Tsunami
Ryan Johnson TRNN Jason Stanley, author of Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future, talks through the reasons young people voted for Democrats in the midterm…
U.S. Voters Reject the Iran War and U.S. Backing For Israel, But Democratic Leaders Won’t Break With Trump
Joshua Scheer Trump’s war on Iran came home to American voters in the price of gasoline, groceries and other essentials. In this Geopolitical Economy Report analysis, Ben Norton argues that…
Texas’ School Voucher Program Could Be “Unrecognizable, If Not Extinct,” Says Democratic Lawmaker
Lexi Churchill and Jeremy Schwartz, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune Co-published with The Texas Tribune Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s vision for education was finally coming together. This year, the state…
A Blue Wave Rejected Trump. Will Democrats Confront His Racism?
Erin Aubry Kaplan Capital and Main Democrats won big in the midterms. Whether they’ll now push back on the president’s racism and reembrace diversity is the question that remains. The…
NYU Students, Faculty Testify About Crackdown On Pro-Palestine Speech
Yezen Saadah Prism Dozens of New York University (NYU) students and professors gathered Monday for the first public hearing of a yearlong investigation into the university’s disciplinary actions against pro-Palestine…
Reflections on Being Kidnapped by Border Patrol
Laura Rethmann CounterPunch Last Wednesday, Border Patrol detained me for nearly twenty hours. I have never felt my citizenship more acutely than I did in detention. Not when I first…