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Alfred McCoy: Did Mark Twain Imagine Donald Trump?

If Mark Twain were alive today, he would certainly have written a novel about Donald Trump. After all, his 1873 novel, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, distinctly caught a nineteenth-century version of our Trumpian moment, tariffs and all.

August 4, 2025 · 4 Comments

William D. Hartung: The Ever-Expanding War Machine

Dismantling the Government While Pumping Up the Pentagon

May 7, 2025 · 1 Comment

Jon Queally: Khanna Sounds Alarm as Thousands of Factory Workers Laid Off Amid Trump Tariff Chaos

“Imagine if federal worker unions and Democratic Party officials showed up at the plant gate of a company that was about to close its doors,” said one labor advocate. “Why aren’t the Democrats doing this?”

April 7, 2025 · 6 Comments

Abby Zimet: A Disaster Of Idiocy | So This Penguin Came Up To Me

Several tariff targets are in fact remote outcroppings of ice and rock populated by no humans but many freeloading penguins and seals, who thank God won’t be “looting and pillaging” us any more.

April 6, 2025 · 10 Comments

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