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The Trump administration is a serious threat to democracy. They’re also laughably incompetent. But the result is no laughing matter.

Jacobin sat down with the prolific muckraking filmmaker Alex Gibney to discuss his new documentary The Dark Money Game, on the terrifying ramifications of Citizens United and how it’s empowered the same oligarchy now unleashed by the Trump administra

A future with (an even more) controlled press

Deadly and Dangerous, Imperialism Is, Indeed, a Paper Tiger (1975), Turning Ugly Concrete Pillars Into Things of Beauty (1970), When the War Came Home, Students Paid the Price (1970), An Anti-Racist Newspaper Celebrates Its 120th Birthday (1905)

From ‘wellness farms’ to expanded involuntary commitment policies, the US is embracing psychiatric incarceration under the guise of compassion

With “Blood and Politics,” Zeskind predicted that anti-immigrant ideologies would become part of mainstream American politics, and warned about downplaying the threat.

“Arresting people out of a courtroom will lead to a breakdown of civil society. We do not support the presence of ICE where it will lead to intimidation against witnesses and victims of crimes, denying everyone involved the justice they deserve."

Thomas Gremillion, Consumer Federation of America, criticized the Administration's reckless disregard for its policies' effects on the detection and prevention of foodborne illness and said plans to replace federal food inspectors merit suspicion

Concocting an emergency to advance economic and foreign policy goals is an abuse of power.

The creation of three "dire wolf" pups has raised hopes that it may be possible to resurrect extinct animals. But some scientists have grave concerns.