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Donald Trump

The Loneliness Epidemic in Trump’s America, and How Communities are Forming

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Asked if she worries about the safety of her sons while they’re out observing ICE, their mother, Audrey, said yes.

Arms Sales

A Clique of Unhinged Techno-Optimists Is Putting Humanity at Risk

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Karp loves verbal combat as much as he likes running a firm that makes high-tech weaponry

Donald Trump

Waiting for ICE

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In early February, the barbarians reached my gate. There could be no more comfort or denial here on this island where I live.

Nuclear arsenal

Our Enduring Nuclear Nightmare: The End of New START

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It’s the height of naivety to believe that a global system built on the supposed security of nuclear weapons can endure indefinitely

Immigration

Borders as Crime Scenes and Crimes

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ICE agents have also been deployed around the nation to grab immigrants off the streets and whisk them to detention

Constitution

Who’s Responsible When a Military Order is Illegal? (Don’t Ask Donald Trump!)

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By Nan Levinson ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Any story about resistance within the military must begin by recognizing that it’s not an easy thing to do. Apparently, that’s true even for a much-decorated retired Navy commander, former astronaut, and sitting United States senator. I’m talking about Arizona Senator Mark Kelly. He was one of six Democratic […]

Colonialism

U.S. Imperialism in Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to Maduro: The Trump Corollary

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By Eric Ross In recent months, the Trump administration has escalated a decades-long campaign against the Venezuelan government and people. The renewed, intensifying threats of regime change, justified through false or inflated claims that Nicolás Maduro, its president, is directing narco-terrorism against the United States, serve as a convenient pretext for deeper and more direct […]

Academic Freedom

Trump using Jews to Ban Free Speech: The Ultimate in Antisemitism

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By Mattea Kramer ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Rooting out terrorism and antisemitism was the supposed reason that plainclothed ICE agents arrested doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk on a street in Somerville, Massachusetts, after she coauthored an op-ed calling on Tufts University to divest from companies with ties to Israel due to the killing and starvation of […]

Arms Sales

The Ultimate Con: Arms Contractors are Making out Like Bandits

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By Ashley Gate and William D. Hartung ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Kathryn Bigelow’s new nuclear thriller, A House of Dynamite, has been criticized by some experts for being unrealistic, most notably because it portrays an unlikely scenario in which an adversary chooses to attack the United States with just a single nuclear-armed missile. Such a […]