Dan Gillmor

Reasons for Hope, late 2024

News and commentary for understanding and coping with the years ahead... One item today: dozens of reasons to be hopeful

Dan Gillmor Dec 19, 2024

Picture of WR Hearst holding money bags with coins that have faces.

Essentials, December 19, 2024

News and commentary for understanding and coping with the years ahead. Defending free expression requires hard-nosed defense, and offense A

Dan Gillmor Dec 18, 2024

Essentials, December 18, 2024

News and commentary for understanding and coping with the years ahead... Reminder that not everything is bad YOU LOVE TO

Dan Gillmor Dec 17, 2024

picture of journalists being muzzled with locks on their mouths.

Essentials, December 17, 2024

News and commentary for understanding and coping with the years ahead... The accelerating Trump plot against America Bank Speculation! Polio!

Dan Gillmor Dec 16, 2024

Essentials, December 16, 2024

News and commentary for understanding and coping with the years ahead... Department of Leopards Eating Faces – I Trump Is About

Dan Gillmor Dec 15, 2024

Image of English feudalism: Harold swearing oath on holy relics to William, Duke of Normandy.

Essentials, December 14-15, 2024

News and commentary for understanding and coping with the years ahead... A democracy says no to would-be dictator How South

Dan Gillmor Dec 14, 2024

Photo of people in a breadline during the Great Depression

Essentials, December 13, 2024

News and commentary for understanding and coping with the years ahead... Cryptocurrency, corruption, and (maybe) collapse Eric Trump flew across

Dan Gillmor Dec 13, 2024

Essentials, December 12, 2024

News and commentary for understanding – and coping with – the years ahead... Fixing America's housing crisis is hard, but

Dan Gillmor Dec 12, 2024

Screenshot of definition of "reprobate" -- "an undisciplined or depraved person..."

Essentials, December 11, 2024

News and commentary for understanding and coping with the years ahead... All corruption, all the time – I Donald Trump Controls

Dan Gillmor Dec 11, 2024

Screen shot of Wikipedia's "Single-payer healthcare" article

Essentials, December 10, 2024

News and commentary for understanding and coping with the years ahead... Good numbers don't add up to good

Dan Gillmor Dec 10, 2024

Essentials, December 9, 2024

News and commentary for understanding and coping with the years ahead... Around the world, 'crisis of democracy' takes

Dan Gillmor Dec 9, 2024

United Health Group is "deeply saddened and shocked" in Facebook post, and 110,000 people laugh.

Essentials, December 7-8, 2024

News and commentary for understanding and coping with the years ahead... Will Democrats decide to fight back? If so, how?

Dan Gillmor Dec 8, 2024

Essentials, January 22, 2025

Essentials, January 20, 2025

Essentials, January 16, 2025