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In fourth or fifth grade, I remember reading “Donald Duck Sees South America” and singing “Far Away Places.” (“Far away places with strange sounding names, far away over the sea, those far away places with the strange sounding
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Give Donald Trump some credit, he did manage to cock the American gun with the help of a devastating virus, which he made all his own. In this pandemic year, gun sales have already totaled more than 17 million (including many first-time gun buyers). A record 15.1
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Beyond Our Control
America in the Mid-Seventies and 2020
By Tom Engelhardt
It was summer almost half a century ago when I got into that Volkswagen van and began my trip across country with Peter, a photographer friend. I was officially doing so as a reporter for a small San Francisco news service, having been sent out to tap the mood of the nation in a politically fraught
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Consider two numbers that tell you a good deal about where the United States is as October ends.
The first is 510,000. The coronavirus is now spiking, particularly across the Midwest and rural West, as Americans start heading indoors for winter amid a chaotic refusal to wear masks
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At this point in the presidential campaign, who doesn’t know that Donald Trump essentially winked at the plot of 13 men, including two ex-Marines, to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer?
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Okay, I admit it, I’ve been worried — and no surprise there. In this world from hell, it’s not hard to worry about untold numbers of things going wrong. Let me, however, lay out my own large-scale version of worry about this America of ours. What if Joe Biden does win? The world — at least the world I know and read and watch and talk to — has one giant
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In case you hadn’t noticed, they wear masks in hell. I didn’t know that myself until this year. On the best evidence around, however, like most Americans, I’m now in a circle of hell. I feel it particularly when I’m out on streets that are starting to chill down, not heat up, as winter arrives (however
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Since I came of age (long ago in another century), I’ve never missed voting in a presidential election. And I guarantee you one thing — barring a health disaster — I won’t miss this one either. I’m not in need of one of the movingly committed people TomDispatch
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I was never in the military myself, but I did spend time at a U.S. military base and I have to admit that it remains a treasured experience among my memories. Sometime in the 1950s, my father ran a gas station on Governors Island in New York Harbor. Now largely a public park, it was then an Army base with two forts
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It might be deplorable of me to say so, but conspiracy theorizing at the highest level of government gave me one of the greatest gifts of my childhood, a TV set. I once wanted to write an essay called “Thank God for Senator McCarthy!” about that time. In April 1954, my