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Arnold R. Isaacs

Arnold R. Isaacs is a journalist and writer based in Maryland. He has written widely on refugee and immigration issues and is the author of From Troubled Lands: Listening to Pakistani and Afghan Americans in post-9/11 America and two books relating to the Vietnam war.

Health
The USAID that Elon Musk Never Knew

The USAID that Elon Musk Never Knew

Arnold R. Isaacs

( Tomdispatch.com ) – What put the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), with an annual budget hovering at just about 1% of federal spending, at the top of Elon Musk’s budget-cutting target list? Was it just a political calculation that foreign aid is a safe target because it’s unpopular with so many Americans and […]

Donald Trump
We Can’t Let Ourselves be overwhelmed: Countering Trump’s Falsehoods Is More Urgent Than Ever

We Can’t Let Ourselves be overwhelmed: Countering Trump’s Falsehoods Is More Urgent Than Ever

Arnold R. Isaacs

( Tomdispatch.com ) – During this year’s presidential election campaign, I was puzzled and increasingly troubled that the issue of truth-telling — and the spectacular lack of it from one candidate — wasn’t getting the sort of focus or emphasis in the news coverage it should have received. We heard or read about Donald Trump’s […]

Far Right
Marjorie Taylor Greene only Cares about some Murders, and not those committed by Far Right with AR-15s

Marjorie Taylor Greene only Cares about some Murders, and not those committed by Far Right with AR-15s

Arnold R. Isaacs

( Tomdispatch.com ) – “Say her name!” Marjorie Taylor Greene shouted from the House floor during President Biden’s State of the Union Address. The same slogan was on the T-shirt she wore under her red jacket, which had a pin with a picture of the person whose name she was referring to — a pin she’d […]

Veterans
A Different Kind of War Wound Afflicts America

A Different Kind of War Wound Afflicts America

Arnold R. Isaacs

(Tomdispatch.com) – When an announcement of a “Moral Injury Symposium” turned up in my email, I was a bit startled to see that it came from the U.S. Special Operations Command. That was a surprise because many military professionals have strongly resisted the term “moral injury” and rejected the suggestion that soldiers fighting America’s wars […]

Donald Trump
MACA or Making America Crueler Again: Targeting Refugees and the Helpless

MACA or Making America Crueler Again: Targeting Refugees and the Helpless

Arnold R. Isaacs

(Tomdispatch.com) – On September 26th, President Donald Trump’s White House announced that, in 2020, refugee admissions to the United States will be limited to 18,000, drastically lower than any yearly ceiling over the past 40 years. Along with that announcement, the White House released a separate executive order intended to upend many years of precedent […]

Donald Trump
America's current Racism, Patriarchy and Fear of Immigrants Eerily look like 1919

America’s current Racism, Patriarchy and Fear of Immigrants Eerily look like 1919

Arnold R. Isaacs

1919 was the year Confederate General Stonewall Jackson’s statue was erected on a main thoroughfare in Richmond, Virginia

Immigration
"Make America Cruel Again:" Trump's War on Immigrants

“Make America Cruel Again:” Trump’s War on Immigrants

Arnold R. Isaacs

The U.S. government “is allowing people who would otherwise qualify for resettlement to live under conditions that could kill them.”

Pentagon
Making America's Wars Great Again: Caught in the Vietnam Time Loop

Making America’s Wars Great Again: Caught in the Vietnam Time Loop

Arnold R. Isaacs

American military power has been less and less effective, but the rhetoric surrounding that power has grown more boastful

Donald Trump
Trump:  The Final Victory of the Big Lie?

Trump: The Final Victory of the Big Lie?

Arnold R. Isaacs

(Tomdispatch.com) – It’s easy — and not wrong — to think that truth is in dire danger in the era of Donald Trump. His own record of issuing breathtaking falsehoods from the exalted platform of the White House is unprecedented in American history. So is his consistent refusal to back down when a statement is […]

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