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The acclaimed filmmaker and investigative journalist on her twenty-year project, the “crisis” in investigative journalism, and how truth-telling can still change the world.

Launched in 1975 from Pinochet’s Chile, Operation Condor was a secret police operation of “cross-border repression, [whose] teams … launch[ed] assassination missions and other criminal operations in the United States, Mexico and Europe.”

If Mamdani learns from the mistakes that have derailed past efforts, he could pull off something that could change the lives of hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers with young children. More than that, he could set a powerful national example.

What we’ve done to rescue the climate is far from good enough, but we are “bending the curve.” Landmarks like the Paris treaty and the Vanuatu victory matter, as do renewable energy milestones, and there’s plenty left to fight for.

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As workers today face a decades-long decline in union density, rising inequality, and a hostile media landscape, the Federated Press' century-old experiment in independent labor journalism feels urgent again.

These days “anarchism” has become an official swear word. A little history should help. Only with the middle of the 19th century does something clearly and (somewhat) strategically emerge as “anarchism” — competing with Marxism to overcome capitalism

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Corporations far beyond Starbucks want to keep baristas out of unions. The ongoing barista strike also represents something much broader: a pitched battle against an executive and governance regime interlocked with a wider network of corporate power

As journalists comb through the Epstein emails, surfacing the name of one fawning luminary after another, there is a collective whisper of “How could they?” How could such eminent people, belonging to such prestigious institutions, succumb to this?