By Douglas H. White ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Recently, in an executive order, President Trump directed the removal of “improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology” from the Smithsonian Institution. That order was, in essence, an attempt to rewrite history on race and gender. One-hundred-and-one-year-old Colonel James H. Harvey, one of the last of the famed Tuskegee […]
The Power of the Poor in Trump’s America: Organizing
By Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The day after Donald Trump won the 2024 election, the 10 richest people in the world — including nine Americans — expanded their wealth by nearly $64 billion, the greatest single-day increase in recorded history. Since then, an unholy marriage of billionaire investors, tech bros, […]
Trump Faces Palestine: The Colonial View of the World Never Dies
By Aviva Chomsky ( Tomdispatch.com) – In the colonial view of the world — and, in its own strange fashion, Donald Trump’s view couldn’t be more colonial — White European colonizers were embattled beacons of civilization, rationality, and progress, confronting dangerous barbaric hordes beyond (and even, sometimes, within) their own frontiers. Colonial violence then was […]
Withholding Consent from the Trump Regime
By Nan Levinson ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Not even two months since Inauguration Day and it’s already been quite a trip. Ping-ponging between vindictive pettiness and unconstitutional overreach while using everything in his power (and much that isn’t), Donald Trump has served up a goulash of dubious orders with a slathering of venom on top. […]
Trump’s Machinery of Mass Deportation
By Michael Gould-Wartofsky | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – “Flights to Guantánamo Bay have begun. The worst of the worst have no place in our homeland.” With those words the U.S. government announced the fate awaiting “criminal aliens” in its custody. On a military base in El Paso, Texas, masked men in combat fatigues paraded […]
Surviving Hard Times: The Last Generation of Black Americans under Jim Crow and the Culture of Racism in America
By Douglas H. White ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Today, racism remains a poisonous force in America. Fascism and authoritarianism are on the rise and President Donald Trump is giving voice to such hate, making it state policy and central to his presidential agenda. Recently, he tried to ban birthright citizenship by executive order to limit […]
Beating Trump, Dumping Trump (It can be Done)
By Robert Lipsyte ( Tomdispatch.com ) – In bad times — and these are bad times — I call up the spirit of Willie. Willie has seen me through cancer, divorce, and deaths in the family. His memory has given me the courage and strength to push on when I wanted to give up and […]
The Mass Deportation Handoff, Biden to Trump: And the Booming Border-Industrial Complex
By Todd Miller It didn’t take long for the border and immigration enforcement industry to react to Donald Trump’s reelection. On November 6th, as Bloomberg News reported, stock prices shot up for two private prison companies, GEO Group and CoreCivic. “We expect the incoming Trump administration to take a much more aggressive approach regarding border […]
“The Lion has Fallen:” The End of Syria’s Brutal Regime and the Fate of the Refugees
By Helen Benedict ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Six years ago, at the time of the first Trump administration’s Muslim ban and its initial round of vicious anti-immigrant policies, I visited a refugee camp on the Greek island of Samos to see how Europe was handling its own immigrants and refugees. Within a day, I met […]
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