Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor… In late March, I sat in the gallery of the Supreme Court for the first time in my life. Throughout my 30 years of grassroots anti-poverty work, I've joined countless protests and vigils outside the

From TomDispatch last evening: Liz Theoharis, "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor... The Case for Asylum in These Less Than United States" tomdispatch.com/give-me-your...

Trump As The GOAT Seventy-five years ago, my father and I gazed down from the stands at Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle in the outfield at Yankee Stadium. I was thrilled by the sight of two heroes of my

From TomDispatch Sunday evening: Is Donald Trump the reason why we have no real sporting heroes anymore? -- Robert Lipsyte, "Trump As The GOAT, The Greatest of All Time (or So He Believes)"
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From an Old Journalist, Another Letter to the Tribe A few weeks before the 2020 presidential election, I wrote "An Open Letter to My Old Tribe," urging "every reporter who is covering this election at any level" to focus on a crucial question -- whether

From TomDispatch this morning: Arnold Isaacs, "From an Old Journalist, Another Letter to the Tribe, Cover the Election, Not Just the Candidates" tomdispatch.com/from-an-old-...

From TomDispatch this morning: Arnold Isaacs, "From an Old Journalist, Another Letter to the Tribe, Cover the Election, Not Just the Candidates" shorturl.fm/NPDcx

Trump’s Game for War A couple of wars ago, when I gave readings from my book War Is Not a Game, I sometimes tried to liven things up by asking the audience to guess which of the names I

From TomDispatch yesterday morning: Is Donald Trump at war with the world and, if you're a reporter, how do you cover that? -- Nan Levinson, "Trump's Game for War, How the News Media Is Covering His War" tomdispatch.com/trumps-game-...

The Leadership Team from Hell on a Hell of a Planet On March 13th, buried in the New York Times’s coverage of the U.S.-Israel-Iran conflict was a headline that would have been easy to miss amid the din of war coverage: “As El Niño Simmers, Scientists

From TomDispatch this morning: Michael Klare, "The Leadership Team from Hell on a Hell of a Planet, How Trump's Incompetence and Looming Global Catastrophes May Intersect" shorturl.fm/csRYz

The World's Most Unbelievable Science Fiction Novel Honestly, I can't believe I'm in this world of ours (or do I mean His?). Yes, this very one and no other! Almost a quarter of a century after, in response to the 9/11 attacks, the

From TomDispatch this past Sunday: Tom Engelhardt, "The World's Most Unbelievable Science Fiction Novel, Or Living on a Dump-Truck (Oops, I Meant Trump) Planet"
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From Baghdad to Albany I'm writing this piece well into President Donald Trump's new war with Iran, which, with the help of Israel, has already killed more than 2,000 civilians, including 175 schoolgirls and staff; displace...

From TomDispatch this morning: In our never-ending wars in the Mid East, hearing any voice from the “other side” has been rare indeed, a subject that Benedict takes up memorably today - Helen Benedict, "From Baghdad to Albany, Listening to the Other Side" shorturl.fm/lNeH7

From Baghdad to Albany I'm writing this piece well into President Donald Trump's new war with Iran, which, with the help of Israel, has already killed more than 2,000 civilians, including 175 schoolgirls and staff; displace...

From TomDispatch this morning: In our never-ending wars in the Mid East, hearing any voice from the “other side” has been rare indeed, a subject that Benedict takes up memorably today - Helen Benedict, "From Baghdad to Albany, Listening to the Other Side" shorturl.fm/lNeH7

The World's Most Unbelievable Science Fiction Novel Honestly, I can't believe I'm in this world of ours (or do I mean His?). Yes, this very one and no other! Almost a quarter of a century after, in response to the 9/11 attacks, the

From TomDispatch this morning: Tom Engelhardt, "The World's Most Unbelievable Science Fiction Novel, Or Living on a Dump-Truck (Oops, I Meant Trump) Planet" tomdispatch.com/the-worlds-m...

Donald Trump’s Racism Mirrors Jeffrey Epstein's Jeffrey Epstein was not only a rapist and a child predator, but also -- wait for it -- a White supremacist. While some speculate that the Epstein issue is just a distraction from President Trump’s

From TomDispatch this morning: Clarence Lusane, "Donald Trump's Racism Mirrors Jeffrey Epstein's, The President with the "Right Genes" tomdispatch.com/donald-trump...

Donald Trump’s Racism Mirrors Jeffrey Epstein's Jeffrey Epstein was not only a rapist and a child predator, but also -- wait for it -- a White supremacist. While some speculate that the Epstein issue is just a distraction from President Trump’s

From TomDispatch this morning: Clarence Lusane, "Donald Trump's Racism Mirrors Jeffrey Epstein's, The President with the "Right Genes" tomdispatch.com/donald-trump...

Imperial Decline in the Straits of Hormuz In the first chapter of his 1874 novel The Gilded Age, Mark Twain offered a telling observation about the connection between past and present: “History never repeats itself, but the… present often see...

From TomDispatch this evening: Alfred McCoy, "Imperial Decline in the Straits of Hormuz, The Iran War as America's Very Own Suez Crisis"
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Imperial Decline in the Straits of Hormuz In the first chapter of his 1874 novel The Gilded Age, Mark Twain offered a telling observation about the connection between past and present: “History never repeats itself, but the… present often see...

From TomDispatch this evening: Alfred McCoy, "Imperial Decline in the Straits of Hormuz, The Iran War as America's Very Own Suez Crisis" tomdispatch.com/imperial-dec...

“The Horror! The Horror!” Under President Donald J. Trump, the United States has now become an engine for the promulgation of White nationalism. Not since the 1930s has such an ideology, which exalts those ethnic groups it cod...

From TomDispatch this morning: Count on this: Trump and crew are going to give the phrase “the White man’s burden” a grim new meaning -- Juan Cole, "The Horror! The Horror!, Colonial Nostalgia and Aryan Reliability"
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“The Horror! The Horror!” Under President Donald J. Trump, the United States has now become an engine for the promulgation of White nationalism. Not since the 1930s has such an ideology, which exalts those ethnic groups it cod...

From TomDispatch this morning: Count on this: Trump and crew are going to give the phrase “the White man’s burden” a grim new meaning -- Juan Cole, "The Horror! The Horror!, Colonial Nostalgia and Aryan Reliability" tomdispatch.com/the-horror-t...

After Loneliness All the way back in 2023, the surgeon general diagnosed Americans as suffering from an epidemic of loneliness. More recently, amid the rise of American fascism, I started to notice that people were no...

From TomDispatch this morning: How to begin to pierce the loneliness of Donald Trump's America -- Mattea Kramer, "After Loneliness: Left for Dead in Donald Trump's America, Communal Life Stirs" tomdispatch.com/after-loneli...

The Brave New War Machine “I love the idea of getting a drone and having light fentanyl-laced urine spraying on analysts that tried to screw us,” said Alex Karp, the CEO of the emerging military tech firm Palantir. Far from

From TomDispatch this evening: Janet Abou-Elias and William D. Hartung, "The Brave New War Machine, How a Clique of Unhinged Techno-Optimists Is Putting Humanity at Risk"

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The Brave New War Machine “I love the idea of getting a drone and having light fentanyl-laced urine spraying on analysts that tried to screw us,” said Alex Karp, the CEO of the emerging military tech firm Palantir. Far from

From TomDispatch last evening: Janet Abou-Elias and William D. Hartung, "The Brave New War Machine, How a Clique of Unhinged Techno-Optimists Is Putting Humanity at Risk"

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Why the Trump Administration Doesn't Just Break the Law In response to his sentencing following his conviction on 34 felonies in May 2024, President Trump stated that he had “won the election in a massive landslide, and the people of this country understan...

Outright violations of the law have been a signature characteristic of the second Trump administration writ large -- Maha Hilal, "Why the Trump Administration Doesn't Just Break the Law, But Uses Legality (in a Distinctly Lawless Fashion) tomdispatch.com/why-the-trum...

Why the Trump Administration Doesn't Just Break the Law In response to his sentencing following his conviction on 34 felonies in May 2024, President Trump stated that he had “won the election in a massive landslide, and the people of this country understan...

Outright violations of the law have been a signature characteristic of the second Trump administration writ large -- Maha Hilal, "Why the Trump Administration Doesn't Just Break the Law, But Uses Legality (in a Distinctly Lawless Fashion) tomdispatch.com/why-the-trum...

Why Guns? Power is felt, attributed, invisible, all-important, descriptive, without shape, and so much more. There is personal power, governmental power, and the collective power of the people. Power can be bou...

The Trump administration's attempt to militarize this country goes beyond the Dept. of War and it's potentially opening a road leading to authoritarian rule -- Beverly Gologorsky, "Why Guns? From Personal Power to Autocracy in Donald Trump's America" tomdispatch.com/why-guns/

Why Guns? Power is felt, attributed, invisible, all-important, descriptive, without shape, and so much more. There is personal power, governmental power, and the collective power of the people. Power can be bou...

The Trump administration's attempt to militarize this country goes beyond the Dept. of War and it's potentially opening a road leading to authoritarian rule -- Beverly Gologorsky, "Why Guns? From Personal Power to Autocracy in Donald Trump's America" tomdispatch.com/why-guns/

Trumped! I grew up with a vision of a possible instant apocalypse, inspired (if, under the circumstances, such a word can even be used) by the nuclear obliteration of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagas...

Though too few of us say so, in this already overheating moment of ours, Trump as president of the US should distinctly be considered the nightmare of our age, or possibly of any age - Tom Engelhardt, "Trumped! The President of No Return on a Hothouse Planet" tomdispatch.com/trumped-2/

Trumped Give him credit. As a start, for that first surprise victory in 2016. No, I didn't fully get it at the time, but I kind of get it now (since, like the rest of us,

Though too few of us say so, in this already overheating moment of ours, Trump as president of the United States should distinctly be considered the nightmare of our age, or possibly of any age -- Tom Engelhardt, "Trumped! The President of No Return on a Hothouse Planet" tomdispatch.com/trumped/

85 Seconds to My Own Midnight? “I’m not scared, you’re scared!” is the repeated line in a children's story we recently read to the kids at the Unitarian Universalist version of Sunday school I attend with my children. In that story...

Why we must keep talking about, writing about, and organizing against nuclear weapons to preserve at least those 85 seconds for our children and grandchildren - Frida Berrigan, "85 Seconds to My Own Midnight?, Or Our Nuclear World, Up Close and Personal" shorturl.fm/7Yr5M

Nate Cohn of the New York Times at his The Tilt column on whether the coming midterm elections this year will prove to be a potentially devastating referendum on the president. shorturl.fm/fhVmu

85 Seconds to My Own Midnight? “I’m not scared, you’re scared!” is the repeated line in a children's story we recently read to the kids at the Unitarian Universalist version of Sunday school I attend with my children. In that story...

Why we must keep talking about, writing about, and organizing against nuclear weapons to preserve at least those 85 seconds for our children and grandchildren - Frida Berrigan, "85 Seconds to My Own Midnight?, Or Our Nuclear World, Up Close and Personal" tomdispatch.com/85-seconds-t...

Trump ‘Murder Spree’ Continues With 11 More People Killed in US Boat Strikes | Common Dreams The Trump administration's killing spree in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean is unjustifiable. No evidence of drug trafficking, just innocent lives lost. How can we allow this to continue? ...

Julia Conley of Common Dreams on the never-ending Trump administration blasting of boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific Ocean that indeed is a first-class murder spree. shorturl.fm/Q6kd6

85 Seconds to My Own Midnight? “I’m not scared, you’re scared!” is the repeated line in a children's story we recently read to the kids at the Unitarian Universalist version of Sunday school I attend with my children. In that story...

Why we must keep talking about, writing about, and organizing against nuclear weapons to preserve at least those 85 seconds for our children and grandchildren - Frida Berrigan, "85 Seconds to My Own Midnight?, Or Our Nuclear World, Up Close and Personal" tomdispatch.com/85-seconds-t...