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In its Big Beautiful Bill, the Trump administration is proudly cutting funds for “woke programs” ranging from the U.S. Program for International Development to the Environmental Protection
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Being in Donald Trump’s America — and yes, in these years, it’s all too often seemed to be his — has, in its own strange way, been a distinctly religious experience. Or so it’s seemed anyway. If you believed in him, whatever he did or planned to do, he still had your trust and vote in 2024, and whatever he now does, he can still do no wrong, not truly. If,
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No kid is under a desk anymore — and isn’t that strange when you think about it? After all, when I “ducked and covered” like
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Sometimes it seems as though nothing ever really ends in this world of ours. As I read Rebecca Gordon’s latest grim piece for TomDispatch on the return of torture in the age of Trump, the all-American prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the one that, in the years of the Global War on Terror, held so many tortured prisoners offshore of American justice, popped back into
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Hey, you remember that guy, right? You know, the candidate who, in his third campaign for president in 2024 insisted that he was the one who would remove this country’s “warmongers and America-last globalists” and that returning him to the White House would “turn the page forever on those foolish, stupid days of never-ending war. They never ended.”
Yes, indeed, America’s
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These days, don’t you sometimes feel like you’re no longer in the world you always knew, but in a science-fiction version of it? Once upon a time, it was hard even to imagine the president of the United States employing military troops on our soil, despite the wishes of state officials. Yes, 60 years ago, President Lyndon Johnson did indeed
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Hey, if you want a curse word — or do I mean a curse acronym? — DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) should work perfectly for you in the second era of DT (and no, I don’t mean DDT!). Honestly, could we live in a stranger world? I have my doubts.
Just consider this, for instance: In April, as the Washington Post
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While Donald Trump and crew have been altering so much and changing our world in so many ways — if you doubt that, wave a Mexican flag and say goodbye to democracy — there’s one place where they
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Hey, give Donald Trump and crew credit when it comes to climate change. You know, the phenomenon that the president once called a “Chinese hoax.” Only recently, in fact, his administration
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In some ways, at my age, I simply can’t imagine (or perhaps I mean believe) the world that we now inhabit. Or rather I can’t believe that, once upon a time, as a kid, I could leave my house to go meet my best friend and we could essentially disappear. My parents would have no idea where we were and no way of finding us. Of course, back then, in the 1950s, a million years