By Nanette Asimov, Staff Writer Dec 12, 2025 (SFChronicle.com) Gift Article Theo Baker, the Stanford freshman whose investigative reporting led to the ouster of the university’s president in 2023, has not yet graduated. His forthcoming book, an exposé about Stanford mixed with a bit of memoir, is due out this spring, a… Continue reading
Status Coup News Dec 12, 2025 Status Coup reporter JT Cestkowski breaks down a recent NBC News report on ICE operations in the Minneapolis area and explains how it ignores—and distorts—huge parts of the real story and pushes the Trump administration’s propaganda.Status Coup has reported ON THE GROUND FOR MONTHS… Continue reading
Critics from Hungary, El Salvador and Turkey offer advice to the US about what they’ve learned about authoritarians Building power is supported by About this content Danielle Renwick Tue 9 Dec 2025 Donald Trump makes no secret of his admiration for strongmen like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán or El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele…. Continue reading
US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) looks on as senators speak to reporters following a Senate Democratic policy luncheon at the US Capitol on December 9, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images) “Twenty-five years ago, Chuck Schumer and Susan Collins both voted to send me and… Continue reading
Rogue Elephant: How the Republicans Went from the Party of Business to the Party of Chaos Paul Heideman A well-researched exploration of how the Repubican party, unmoored from its traditional constituency of Big Business, has become more right-wing and less predictable Rogue Elephant traces the radicalization of the Republican Party over… Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Movements: US “In the United States of America, here in the Year of Our Lord 2025, the state of the free press is not good… But you need to understand: They are going after us to disempower YOU.” by Maximillian Alvarez, Mickey Huff, Eleanor Goldfield and Mischa Geracoulis December 12, 2025… Continue reading
Indiana Lt. Governor Micah Beckwith speaks during a Remembering Charlie Kirk vigil hosted by Turning Point USA at Indiana University at the Indiana Memorial Union on September 14, 2025 in Bloomington, Indiana. (Photo by Jeremy Hogan/Getty Images) Some Indiana Republicans vocally objected to the president’s pressure campaign, with one saying… Continue reading
This photo of President Donald Trump, then a businessman, and Jeffrey Epstein is one of the 95,000 that congressional Democrats received from the deceased sex offender’s estate. (Photo from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate via the US House Committee on Oversight and Reform) “These disturbing images raise even more questions about Epstein and… Continue reading
Nine of the International Criminal Court’s 18 judges—seen here in a March 8, 2024 photo—are under US sanctions. (Photo by the International Criminal Court) “In my country, I prosecuted terrorists and drug lords,” said Judge Luz Ibáñez Carranza of Peru. “I will continue my work.” Brett Wilkins Dec 12, 2025… Continue reading
The House has just passed the Protect America’s Workforce Act (H.R. 2550) with 211 Democrats and 20 Republicans voting in favor of the measure! That’s overwhelming bipartisan support to restore the collective bargaining rights of thousands of VA nurses and other federal workers — rights that were unfairly stripped from them by two executive… Continue reading
