Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, The Future According to Trump

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Every now and then, I try to imagine telling my dead parents about — yes! — President Donald Trump (twice, no less!). They died long enough ago that, though they, too, lived in New York City, I’m not sure they would have known who he was in his pre-presidential days. Still, to anyone of their generation, such a president would have been literally inconceivable. read more

Model Campaign Platform

Candidates for the U.S. Congress usually have websites, and often those websites include some minimal platform (what they would do if elected). Sometimes there’s none at all. Sometimes there’s a great deal of substance on numerous topics. But the vast majority of Congressional candidates have no foreign policy whatsoever. They want to be given a job to oversee a discretionary budget of which some 60 percent goes to militarism, yet they make zero mention of war, peace, diplomacy, weapons sales, read more

Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, Has Sports Been Trumped?

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Once upon a time, the first thing I would have done on picking up the New York Times in the morning was turn to the sports page. And the last thing I would have done at night was watch or listen to a Mets or Knicks game as I was preparing for sleep. From the time I began going to Ebbets Field as a kid in the early 1950s to see the Brooklyn Dodgers, I was a fervent read more

Tomgram: Engelhardt, No Ducking and Covering for Us

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Climate-Change Summer or Nuclear Winter? A Child Today Is Being Born into the Slow-Motion Equivalent of Hiroshima and Nagasaki By

What self-destructive creatures we turn out to be!

Can you even believe it? Only recently, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP30, met in Brazil for two weeks. While 194 countries were represented there, the historically greatest fossil-fuelizer on the planet, Donald Trump’s United States, was, of course, missing in action (for the read more