ICE agents have also been deployed around the nation to grab immigrants off the streets and whisk them to detention
Who’s Responsible When a Military Order is Illegal? (Don’t Ask Donald Trump!)
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 […]
U.S. Imperialism in Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to Maduro: The Trump Corollary
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 […]
Trump using Jews to Ban Free Speech: The Ultimate in Antisemitism
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 […]
The Ultimate Con: Arms Contractors are Making out Like Bandits
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 […]
Fear & Loathing in the Halls of Academe: Trump’s Columbia U.
By Helen Benedict ( Tomdispatch.com ) – On September 17, 2025, one month before I was to teach my annual social justice reporting class at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, the campus lowered its flag to half-mast in honor of far-right pontificator Charlie Kirk. Nobody deserves to be murdered, as Kirk was, but to […]
Veterans Day, Moral Injury and the the Guinea Worm Parable
By Kelly Denton-Borhaug ( Tomdispatch.com ) – It’s been a while since I’ve written for TomDispatch and there’s a reason for that. About 16 months ago, I experienced a catastrophic car crash. An SUV veered across the double yellow line of the highway I was traveling on and hit my little Chevy Spark head-on — on […]
Living without a Net in a Trumpian World: The Fate of the Aging
By Beverly Gologorsky | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Aging, like time, ticks on, day by hour by day. Then, suddenly, it’s there, mocking our inability to sweep aside, should we even want to, this iron curtain. For seniors, the concept of time itself differs from that of younger people, because the future is in […]
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 […]
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