Media democracy to uphold the U.S. Constitution By Mischa Geracoulis of Project Censored An attack on press freedom is an attack on all constitutional rights and democratic norms accorded by the system of checks and balances. At the start of the new year, Project Censored’s State of the Free Press 2026 (Censored Press, November 2025) […]
Here in New Orleans, about a year ago, I was sitting in the Treme Coffee House reading my newspaper and eating a bagel, when a woman walked in and sat down at the piano. Now, usually the only people who use that piano are kids from the school next door, and none of them can play well, they just come in and mash the keys and make a hell of a racket. But as this woman began to play and sing, I realized she was not just much better than the kids. She was downright exceptional. I was the only other person in the coffee shop, and so I got essentially a one-person concert. Her music was so beautiful and soulful, her playing raw and emotional. She was still playing when I left, and the next time I went in, I asked the owner who she was.
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By Democracy Now! The FBI raided the home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson this week and seized her electronic devices, part of a leak probe into a government contractor accused of mishandling classified government materials. Natanson has reported extensively on the Trump administration’s changes to the federal bureaucracy, including mass layoffs of government workers. This comes amid a […]