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Ann Jones: The Man Who Saw Trump Coming A Century Ago

Distracted daily by the bloviating POTUS? Here, then, is a small suggestion. Focus your mind for a moment on one simple (yet deeply complex) truth: we are living in a … Continue reading

April 18, 2019 · 1 Comment

Tom Engelhardt: Out With Monstrous Men

Sometimes I wonder what school I went to. I mean, I know perfectly well. I attended a place I never wanted to go: Yale.  But when I was 17 years … Continue reading

December 14, 2017 · 1 Comment

Ann Jones: The Fempire Strikes Back

#MeToo First, for the record, let me tell you my story about another of those perversely creepy Hollywood predators, a sort of cut-rate Harvey Weinstein: the screenwriter and film director … Continue reading

December 13, 2017 · Leave a comment

Ann Jones: The Tyranny of Trump

Millions of Women See Through Him, Even If the Media Don’t Last fall, when presidential wannabe Donald Trump famously boasted on CNN that he would “be the best thing that … Continue reading

June 17, 2016 · Leave a comment

Ann Jones: How Veterans Return From America’s Wars

In 2010, I began to follow U.S. soldiers down a long trail of waste and sorrow that led from the battle spaces of Afghanistan to the emergency room of the … Continue reading

February 19, 2016 · 2 Comments

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