Warnings from a global writing festival as U.S. democracy hangs by a thread | Helen Ubiñas

Warnings from a global writing festival as U.S. democracy hangs by a thread | Helen Ubiñas

The world is sounding the alarm as Donald Trump runs the well-worn authoritarian playbook. Are we listening?

America’s Slide into Authoritarianism, as seen from TED 2025

Historians (if they exist in the future and any records of this period survive) will note this month as one where the United States slipped fully into…

Democracy at a crossroad, America at the Cross

This generation of Americans are witnessing chaotic times derived from an effort to dismantle democracy. Or perhaps a reconstruction of the most perfect union.

A threat model for opposing authoritarianism – OSnews

A decade ago, I published a book on privacy “Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance.” In the book, and since then, in articles and speeches, I have been dispensing advice to people on how to protect their privacy. But my advice did not envision the moment we are in – where the government would collaborate with a tech CEO to strip-mine all of our data from government databases and use it t…