In recent months, the Trump administration has escalated a decades-long campaign against the Venezuelan government and people.
Trump using Jews to Ban Free Speech: The Ultimate in Antisemitism
In an extraordinarily effective work of political theater the Heritage Foundation dubbed its political opponents supporters of terrorism
The Ultimate Con: Arms Contractors are Making out Like Bandits
U.S. interceptors have failed almost half their tests, and the secretary of defense responds by bellowing: “That’s what $50 billion buys us?”
Fear & Loathing in the Halls of Academe: Trump’s Columbia U.
In 2024, Columbia kept the campus locked down. It put in place so many rules governing protests that it effectively quashed
Veterans Day, Moral Injury and the the Guinea Worm Parable
A few months into recovery, I was invited to attend a day-retreat organized by a local veterans’ moral leadership group.
Living without a Net in a Trumpian World: The Fate of the Aging
The recent fright about Social Security offices closing or seniors having to to prove they exist…
How Zohran Mamdani is the Future: Affordability and the Dignity of Working People
By Douglas H. White ( Tomdispatch.com ) – On Tuesday, New York, the largest city in America, has an opportunity to elect Zohran Mamdani, a young man, a democratic socialist, an immigrant (at age seven), a Muslim, a progressive, and someone hated by Donald Trump. And no wonder, since he’s the antithesis of Trump. No […]
Socialism or Barbarism: Reviving the History of the American Left
By Eric Ross | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – More than a century ago, from a Berlin prison cell where she was confined for her uncompromising opposition to the slaughter of the First World War, Rosa Luxemburg warned, “Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.” Her diagnosis remains […]
Famed Cartoonist Jules Feiffer Taught Us to Fail Up and Never Surrender
By Robert Lipsyte ( Tomdispatch.com ) – It’s been more than nine months now since my friend, famed cartoonist Jules Feiffer, died, a week before his 96th birthday after continually warning me that the evil spirit that had descended on this country was leaving him frightened and dispirited. He was glad, he told me, that […]
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