A first-hand account of America’s gun culture, mass shootings, state violence, and the contradiction at the heart of the Second Amendment — asking why a nation armed to resist tyranny never does.

A year-in-review of the visual journalism that brought our stories to life and helped hold power to account.

The FAA predicted Elon Musk’s Starship would cause “minor or minimal” disruption. Then the rockets exploded twice in three months over busy airspace. Flight data reveals how many planes scrambled to protect passengers and avoid burning debris.

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A clip from IndieNewsNow LIVE! 01-06-26

We are cursed by what the historian Barbara Tuchman calls the “bellicose frivolity of senile empires.”

Gazans wonder how to survive without aid; Israel steals West Bank revenue; UN says "apartheid"; headlines for our TLDR readers

The UK justified its support for North Atlantic operation, saying sanction-dodging ship was stateless. Legal experts say that’s debatable

A recording from Arturo Dominguez and Egberto Willies's live video

Twin Cities, MN – Under the Trump Administration’s quota-driven mass deportation plan, separation ordinances and legal protections no longer appear to matter.  On January 7, an ICE agent shot and killed an observer near 33rd and Portland Aves., only the most…

Exclusive: UK embassy feared backlash from “wealthier residents of Caracas” if it helped save Venezuelan president’s life in 2002

Listen now | Recent polling confirms what you’d hear if you talked to people at most any Chat & Chew Café across America – namely, our political system is broken.

Bully Pulpit International, a leading Democratic digital firm, was paid millions in 2024 by a health insurance industry group that is working to ensure companies like UnitedHealth and Humana can continue overbilling Medicare.

Nearly all news media in the United States have embraced the idea that the US owns Venezuela

If we are going to build a new media institution in Pittsburgh, let's not replicate the same old white media institutions that enabled racism in this city for so many decades.

Written by Robert Inlakesh

Senate Republicans joined Democrats to pass a war powers motion to constrain Trump's attacks on Venezuela. The vote will hardly keep U.S. imperialism in check, but it shows that Trump's interventions are pushing up against an American society deeply skeptical…