Nate White: Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?
Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem.
Jerry Paul Sheppard: Trump’s policies are more than dumb — they’re stupid, according to stupidity researchers
Trump’s decisions exhibit confident ignorance, absent-minded failure and lack of control. Is this all hiding a secret agenda?
Abby Zimet: Let Them Die Alone, and Hungry
The new “conquering of Gaza” formalizes Israel’s plan for the indefinite occupation, forced expulsion and incorporation into “sanitized” Israeli zones of an already long-besieged civilian population “for its own protection.”
William D. Hartung: The Ever-Expanding War Machine
Dismantling the Government While Pumping Up the Pentagon
Jake Johnson: ‘Disgusted’ Wisconsin Governor Rips Arrest Threat From Trump Border Czar
“We now have a federal government that will threaten or arrest an elected official—or even everyday American citizens—who have broken no laws, committed no crimes, and done nothing wrong.”
Nan Levinson: Seven-and-a-Half Propositions for Journalism in the Age of Trump
The Good and the Bad in Media Coverage Now
Rebecca Gordon: Trump Harvests Autocratic Powers
Remember that El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele is perfectly willing to receive U.S. citizens, too, as prisoners in his country. It can happen here. It can happen to you.
Baron Wormser: The Hero
Amid Donald Trump’s hubbub machine, it may be hard to discern that what is happening is not a rogue event but one that is ingrained in the American character…
Douglas H. White: Facing Trump’s America
Black people in America have often led change in this society because our humanity and our liberties were so long suppressed and denied.
Abby Zimet: Home Growns Are Next
Take note, says historian Timothy Snyder: “This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror.”
Dr. Noor Abdalla: Letter to My Husband, Mahmoud Khalil
As she prepares to welcome her first child with husband Mahmoud Khalil, Dr. Noor Abdalla writes to her husband one month after he was unlawfully detained for exercising his free speech rights.
Judson Mitcham: Poison
But it’s too late now. We are riding in his car,
and he’s three sheets to the nuclear wind,
he’s roaring drunk on the con that he ran
to put us where we are
Aviva Chomsky: The Colonial View of the World Never Dies
Who are the barbarians?
Robert Wrigley: A Certain Man
For in the loop of this hell there’s a farcical rule,
that says when certain men find a certain man
of use—one that’s spiteful, vacant, and cruel —
he becomes for his purposes the perfect tool…
