Rahm, Hakeem, and Special Places in Hell

People sometimes get away with a certain kind of evil action precisely because most of us have a hard time imagining the levels of cruelty or cynicism involved.

Rahm Emanuel, booster of militarization in Japan as U.S. Ambassador, apologist for racist police violence and closer of schools in Chicago as Mayor, and Democratic Caucus Chairman in the U.S. House of so-called Representatives from 2007 to 2009, did something evil in January 2007. This was just after antiwar voters had handed his Democratic read more

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Apocalyptic Don?

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Climate-Change Summer or Nuclear Winter?
The Dangers on Planet Earth in the Age of Donald Trump

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Yes, give us human beings credit. In our relatively brief history, it’s no small thing to have come up with two different ways of thoroughly devastating Planet Earth and its inhabitants. One of them, of course, is the long-term, slow-motion version of planetary destruction that read more

Tomgram: Nan Levinson, How Trump Plays the Media

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I was recently at a demonstration in New York City (my second in these weeks), part of the latest set of national protests against Donald Trump, JD Vance, Elon Musk, and crew and, among so many other things, their urge (in climate-change terms) to devastate this planet. That rally was once again simply huge, and I stood for 45 minutes or so watching my co-demonstrators march read more