The Most-Read ScheerPost Stories of 2025
Look back at a tumultuous year with a wide variety of coverage around the world.
Chris Hedges: There Are Very Few Good Films About War. ’20 Days in Mariupol’ Is An Exception
By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost Films about war, shorn of the bone crushing fear, the putrid stench of the corpses, the deafening noise of explosions, the constant exhaustion…
‘Argentina, 1985’ Is a Political Tale for Our Time
Argentina’s nominee for Best Foreign Film offers an urgent warning to democracies in Latin America and across the West.
A Father Fights for His Son & What’s Left of Democracy
The film Ithaka, about the quest of Julian Assange’s father to save his son, made its U.S. premiere on Sunday in New York City. It is reviewed by Joe Lauria.
‘Behind the Shield’ Documentary Challenges Idea Sports Should Be Apolitical
Dave Zirin's provocative examination of the 'Power and Politics of the NFL' foresees a day of reckoning for a sport that 'revels in the violence of the Black body for…
Review: ‘Above the Fold’ a ‘Shockingly Powerful’ Exploration of Robert Scheer’s Career
As it lands on mainstream streaming services, Film Threat celebrates a ‘captivating,’ ‘riveting’ movie benefitting from our editor’s ‘intense passion’ and the ‘engaging and intelligent‘ commentary by Jane Fonda and…
The Devil’s Harvest: The Search for Justice in California’s Central Valley
Journalist Jessica Garrison's new book depicts a tableau of drug trafficking, sexual violence, revenge, the bonds of kinship, the vagaries of police work and local news, and seven kinds of…
Plague Journal #21: Caste In America
Should be required reading in any school genuinely concerned about what they should be concerned about: the future of the United States.
Plague Journal #20: The Coming Memepocalypse
Of all the things 'going viral' which ones will matter the most?
Plague Journal #19: How a Clown Was Put in Charge of the Circus
Mary Trump identifies her uncle as an abused sociopath, boosted to power because his pathetic lies are endlessly perpetuated by those who stand to gain from his success.