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It’s strange. I take long walks to keep this 81-year-old body of mine in some kind of half-decent shape, and the truth is that you simply can’t walk for long in my neighborhood of New York City without passing some poor soul wrapped in a blanket, sleeping on the street or huddled in a doorway with seemingly nothing more to his — and yes, they usually are men — name
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Yes, once in the previous century, I actually visited the city of Hiroshima. I was an editor at Pantheon Books and had published a translation of a Japanese volume, Unforgettable Fire: Pictures Drawn by Atomic
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Yes, earlier this year, Donald Trump suggested that he might indeed run for a third term in office. “There are methods which you could do it,” he said, and when it came to considering the possibility, insisted he “was not joking.”
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Donald Trump’s America was absent in every way imaginable. I’m thinking of this year’s crucial U.N. Climate Change Conference in Brazil that hosted dozens of world leaders to discuss the global climate and the energy crisis, but not, of course, Donald Trump (or
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Give Donald Trump credit. He may be the ultimate destroyer of an imperial power. I’m thinking, of course, of the United States. After all, he’s in the process of turning climate change — oops, sorry, that “hoax,” that “
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Honestly, it’s hard even to take in. I’m thinking about a strip of land only about 25 miles long, parts of which are less than four miles wide, that once upon a time (not so very long ago) was one of the most densely populated places
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Trump’s Greatest Skill Creating a New East Wing of Heaven, While Sending the Rest of Us to Hell in a Handbasket ByWhen I began TomDispatch in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and the invasion of Afghanistan, believe me, the world did not look good. But I guarantee you one thing: if you had told me then that, almost a quarter of a century later, the president of the United States would be Donald J. Trump (and had explained to me just who he was), I would have thought you an idiot first
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Donald Trump remains a mystery man of some eerie sort. After all, just ask yourself, why in the world did he only recently announce that this country was going to “immediately” resume nuclear
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There’s one rule in the age of Donald Trump. When it comes to him, you simply can’t rule anything out. It’s true that, only recently, when asked about the possibility that he would order military strikes not just on ships off the coast of Venezuela but in Venezuela itself, he
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Once upon a time, while taking my daily afternoon walk through my neighborhood, I could stroll across the huge Columbia University campus from Broadway to Amsterdam Avenue, which was always a grassy pleasure. Sadly, that pleasure is now long gone. The campus was closed down in the spring of 2024, amid student protests there over Gaza that