War Is A Crime

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Hey, as TomDispatch regular and former New York Times sportswriter and columnist Robert Lipsyte, author of SportsWorld: read more

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Recently, reading an article in the Guardian by Ariel Dorfman on the deportation of children from this country, I thought about the three children, actual U.S. citizens, who were recently deported to Honduras with their mothers — one a four-year-old with Stage 4 cancer but without his or her medications.

Dorfman is a novelist — as an editor at Pantheon Books long, long ago, read more

I recommend reading Charlottesville: An American Story by Deborah Baker. It’s an account, of course, not of all aspects of the city of Charlottesville, but principally of the Nazi-KKK-White Supremacist riot of 2017 that has taken on the name “Charlottesville” — including in a movie. The book itself is the furthest thing from predictable. The majority of it is pre-riot, with countless illuminating tangents and background read more

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One thing you can count on: when it comes to world-ending possibilities on this planet of ours, nothing ever seems to get better. Consider it amazing that we humans, in our strange and remarkable version of ingenuity, have come up with not one but two ways to essentially wipe out everything that might matter to us on this planet (ourselves included). The first, atomic weaponry, read more

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Let me tell you about a little experience I had recently. To understand it, though, you have to know that this 80-year-old walks six miles a day without fail. That’s essentially three miles in the morning before breakfast and three later in the afternoon. And how can I tell that I’ve walked that far? You already know the answer to that, I’m sure: the pedometer on my cell read more

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At some level, it couldn’t be less complicated. Donald Trump is a classic bully. Which means, if you aren’t on his side of things (as he sees it), watch out! And count on one thing, anything involving DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) isn’t on his side of things. We know that now, of course. How could we not? He couldn’t have been clearer on the subject this time read more

Not so much criminals as the foundations of the rule of law — that is what has infiltrated the United States from Latin America. That seems to be a major thread running through Greg Grandin’s wonderful new history of the hemisphere, America, América: A New History of the New World. It’s a book you can dive back into repeatedly, not to mention fantasize about someone compacting it into a short slideshow for the benefit of the President of the United States.

British settler colonists in North read more

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Just in case you hadn’t noticed, the budget bill that passed the House of Representatives — the one that does so many favors for the already wildly wealthy, including offering a “$235 billion read more

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