A Democracy Drive Section
Sourced, chronological threads on the politics shaping the country — what happened, when, and the proof.
How a handful of owners, paywalls, and the attention economy reshaped American news — and how lawless conduct gets “sanewashed” into normal-sounding coverage.
They called him a con artist, a fraud, even “America’s Hitler” — and then they went to work for him. A record of the Republicans who told us, in their own words, exactly who Donald Trump was, and abandoned every word of it the moment his favor became the price of power.
Not a diagnosis — a deflection. How a pejorative buzzword became the all-purpose excuse to dismiss any criticism, and the push to brand disagreement itself as illness.
The campaign against abortion and reproductive health — federal, state, and judicial: defunding, drug reviews, destroyed contraceptives, and rolled-back protections, each sourced.