Since taking office in January, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has weaponized the fear of widespread crime, and tapped...
Oct 31, 2019
Episode 2: Target outsiders – Italy
Matteo Salvini, former Deputy Prime Minister of Italy, made his political career out of denouncing the “threat” that...
Oct 31, 2019
Episode 3: Undermine institutions – Colombia
Colombia’s peace agreement with the FARC guerrilla was supposed to put an end to more than 50 years...
Oct 31, 2019
Episode 4: Exploit religion – India
In Narendra Modi’s India, to be Indian is to be Hindu. By connecting the national identity to the...
Oct 31, 2019
Episode 5: Rewrite history – Hungary
At the time Viktor Orbán became Prime Minister of Hungary in 2010, only a few media outlets had...
Oct 31, 2019
Episode 6: Divide and Conquer – Poland
Leaders in Poland have singled out the LGBT community as the biggest threat to their goal of “restoring...
Oct 31, 2019
Episode 7: Erode truth – United States
One of Donald Trump’s first targets was truth itself. Attacks on the press, on science, and on easily...
Oct 31, 2019
From the Pentagon Papers to Trump’s Ukraine phone call: a conversation with whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg
BOSTON - Daniel Ellsberg’s conscience and courage as the father of American whistleblowers still echoes across the generations,...
Oct 27, 2019
ON THE GROUND IN RIDGELAND, MISS
‘For me, that’s not living:’ In Mississippi, teachers struggle to make ends meet
RIDGELAND, Miss. -- Kaitlyn Barton, 25, is a full-time English teacher at Clarksdale High School. As soon as...
Oct 24, 2019
Job opening: Fellowship manager
The GroundTruth Project, home to Report for America, is seeking a Fellowship Manager to join our team at...
Oct 22, 2019
Democracy Undone: The Authoritarian’s Playbook – Overview
Seven steps by populists worldwide to undermine the democracies that elected them By Kevin Douglas Grant|October 17, 2019|@kevindgrant...
Oct 17, 2019
