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Yes, in our world, MAGA (Make America Great Again) and Donald Trump are distinctly one and the same. They fused so long ago that no one ever really thinks much about that “again” anymore. And yet, it might be Donald Trump’s greatest confession (as well as an explanation for how he came to power).
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Yes, I can remember playing Canasta with my grandma. That was “cards” in my childhood. And when I was an editor in publishing, I actually had a little card with my name, position, and address on it that I could give out to potential authors (or, I guess, whomever). But in those years, if you had ever told me about the “cards” that
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Last year, ICE raids in my hometown, New York City, attracted significant protests, which, remarkably enough, seemed to halt their operations (though some demonstrators were indeed
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Eighty-five seconds. I more or less used up that much time just writing these two sentences. And yet that’s all the time that’s now left on the Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists before reaching a “midnight”
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The Apocalyptic President
The Personification of an Imperial Power (and Planet) in Decline
Once upon a time, if you had described Donald Trump’s America to me (the second time around), I would have thought you mad as Alice in Wonderland‘s
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It’s already obvious enough that the military kidnapping of Venezuela’s president was just the beginning. Now, as part of his Donroe Doctrine in this hemisphere, President Trump is not just trying to
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Sometimes, in this strange world of ours, I wonder where I would be today if Donald J. Trump had been president when, as my Aunt Hilda wrote me so many years ago, “Your great-grandfather, Moore Engelhardt, a boy of 16, arrived in New York from Europe in March 1888.” He took that “Moore” as his first name later in life but it was probably “Moishe” on arrival. “It
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Consider me an A-bomb baby. I was just a year old when, in the war my father had been part of, my country dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, devastating those two cities and killing more than 200,000 people, including
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At the moment I began writing this introduction, ICE agents had just shot Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old White man — an intensive care unit nurse, in fact — in Minneapolis. He was carrying in his hand — no, not a gun, but a phone. In a sense, Minneapolis is, for ICE, if not the U.S. military, the Afghanistan of this moment. In the Trump era, there’s no need to go thousands
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How strange and deeply uncomfortable to think that, should he last, we will have (at least) three (3!) more years of Donald Trump as president of the United States. Honestly, I can barely imagine what that might mean. After all, every extra day of him — or rather him — is eye-blinkingly strange. For instance, it’s true that, while at the World Economic Forum