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At almost 82, I still walk six miles a day without fail. And sometimes now, when I’m walking in my city, New York, I imagine ICE agents arriving here in the hundreds or even thousands as they have in other cities across this country to cause distinctly Trumpian chaos.
And no one should be surprised. As Amnesty International has
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Reading Obituaries
And Murdering Time in the Age of Donald Trump
Having reached a certain age and long been fascinated by obituaries, I sometimes think about both Donald Trump’s and my own. At 79, he’s just slightly less than two years younger than me, though of course I wasn’t the 45th president of the United States or the 47th one either. And eight chaotic years (or
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In the age of Donald Trump, “garbage” has a distinctly new meaning — or do I mean an all too old one in the United States of America? In the view of “our” president, garbage now means “Somali” or “immigrant” or
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It’s been a long time since I crossed a national boundary. Yes, once upon a time, as a young man, I hitchhiked into and across Canada, as well as around significant parts of Europe. And once upon a time, as a grown-up and an editor at a publishing house that put out a
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Give Donald Trump credit. He’s added new meaning to that ancient phrase “gunboat diplomacy.” In fact, by the time I wrote this introduction, his administration had already
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After reading today’s piece by TomDispatch regular Alfred McCoy, I searched the bookshelf in my hallway where I knew I had some old cartoon and comic books from my distant past and found Ariel Dorfman’s classic
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TomDispatch regular Clarence Lusane reminds us today that, once upon a time in a distant universe, long before Venezuela and Greenland became key to the well-being of the United States, JD Vance was anything but a Trumpist. In fact, in 2016, in a
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Here’s the strange thing: With the recent bombing of Venezuela and the kidnapping of its president and his wife, all — according to “our” president — thanks, at least in part, to that country’s remarkable oil wealth, that source of energy has indeed been back in the headlines in a big-time fashion. As Trump
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Rebecca Gordon arrived at TomDispatch in 2014. The very first of the 98 pieces she’s produced for this site (with today’s, of course, being her 99th) was on — sigh — torture. As she grimly put it then, “In such a frightening new world, we were assured, our survival depended in part on brave men and women willing to break precedent and torture
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These days, no kids in school are ducking and covering under their desks. American magazines don’t have stories about families (with the money)