George Monbiot on The Invisible Doctrine | 5x15 We live under an ideology that preys on every aspect of our lives: our education and our jobs; our healthcare and our leisure; our relationships and [...] Read more

THE LANCET Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis Read [...] Read more

What if every ballot you cast is actually a permission slip for your own subjugation? What if the system we've elevated as humanity's greatest political achievement is simply tyranny with better [...] Read more

The Dead End of Checks and Balances Far from the cure to Trumpian authoritarianism, the U.S. constitutional system is driving our democratic decline. Lisa L. Miller Read more [...] Read more

Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds Mackay’s Extraordinary Popular Delusions remains a classic “wake‐up call” on the perils of collective irrationality. While its [...] Read more

Lying in Politics - Hannah Arendt (1972) [...] Read more

A Chorus of Defiance Fifty years after the Vietnam War’s end, lessons from the peace movement on mobilizing resistance. David Cortright hen news of the end of the Vietnam War arrived fifty years [...] Read more

Edward Bernays’ Propaganda (1928) [...] Read more

Politics Politicians who exhibit 'dark' personality traits such as narcissism, psychopathy or Machiavellianism contribute to increasing affective polarization among citizens. This is the conclusion [...] Read more

The Final Election?" "Democracy is not guaranteed. It dies when power goes unchecked, when lies replace truth, and when fear erases courage. If we don't defend it now, there may not be a next [...] Read more