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I began writing for TomDispatch during Barack Obama’s somewhat disappointing second presidential term, observed with horror Trump’s first time...
Trump has unleashed violence on America’s streets for much the same reason he has unleashed violence on Latin America and is planning to unleash it...
Right-wing leaders are trying to convince all of us that what we saw on video with our own eyes was not actually what we saw, and for far too many,...
The popular protests in Iran are just, but rolling back the regime through US intervention, rather than through the actions of the Iranian people...
In light of the Trump administration’s lies, the odds of getting a credible federal probe into the killing of Renee Good are slim.
AI data centers have been added to the limited menu for economic development in marginalized US communities, but people in those communities have...
When a key treaty expires on February 5, Russian and American leaders will face no barriers whatsoever to the expansion of their nuclear arsenals...
$30 billion of federal spending for ACA subsidies is a drop in the bucket of a $1 trillion defense budget.
At the heart of this test lie two irreconcilable viewpoints: those who align themselves with armed agents and the task of protecting America from...
Even though many things are currently moving in the wrong direction, there are also reasons for hope and prospects for positive developments.
Children are getting more expensive for parents even as investment in future workers is becoming less cost-effective for employers. What should be...
The question is no longer whether this system is failing us, but whether we are willing to confront the power structures that depend on that failure.
Even before the Minneapolis shooting, polls showed public support for dropping Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Again and again, external actors arrive convinced that this time, through capital, force, or expertise, they have finally grasped what Venezuela is...
Canada, despite claiming to have imposed an arms embargo, continues to fuel the violence unabated, its factories producing fighter jet components,...
For Trump, peace negotiations and military strikes are simply the means to an end. He wants to exert power over as much of the world as he can reach.
Just what are you waiting for? What are your escapist excuses?
More public pressure can blunt the Trump administration’s authoritarian ambitions.
Despite the candor with which US officials have stated their intent “to intimidate or coerce” Venezuelans and Cubans, US reporters and commentators...
It was shocking how quickly the psychopaths in power launched their vicious lies about Renée Good—"violent rioter," "domestic terrorist," "self-...
With a document that speaks powerfully to our current crisis, Paine emboldened his fellow citizens-to-be to turn their colonial rebellion into a...
You can’t save lives and rebuild communities while gutting FEMA’s workforce and keeping the agency under incompetent and overtly political control...
2026 began with the emergence of a new American colonial empire abroad and the deadly escalation of Trump’s cruel, racist anti-immigrant program at...