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Caitlin and Trent talk with journalist Gillian Brockell about her work tracking the flights and airline companies that move people in unsafe conditions to third-party recipient countries, where they will be imprisoned, mistreated, tortured, and possibly sent to their country of origin in violation of international law. Half the Answer
It’s better to not know heroes exist than to find out they did only after they’re gone.
Confrontational but nonviolent protest is more effective than the solipsistic comfort of an assault rifle.
Anatomy of a turning point.
The Trump administration is deploying a time-tested playbook against women who were murdered.
Minnesota’s playbook against DHS’s occupation shows how residents connect together to get their information needs met without the news media spectacle.
The power of state violence comes with the obligation to uphold a higher standard, not permission to excuse a lower one.
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Samantha interviews Professor Omar Wasow, challenging him to reflect on the first year of the second Trump administration. What forms of resistance have worked? What forms have been less successful? Why is the regime trying to "recreate 2020," and why are they failing? Professor Wasow tells a story
The public fundraiser campaign is over. We are now heads down and putting your donations to good use.
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Ideological axes, Venezuela, Greenland, what to pitch us, and more.
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Trent and Caitlin ask Evan Urquhart about his 2025 wrap up piece on Assigned Media: "The Year We Lost Everything." They discuss the need to take stock of where we are on trans rights, autonomy and the various freedoms we hold dear, and the value of acknowledging that
On the ending of things and the need for post-diluvian politics.
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