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Jan 24, 2025 | 
thenation.com | Nina Turner |Mark Hertsgaard |Rebecca Gordon
Activism / January 24, 2025 Keep Going: Our Mission Has Not ChangedWe owe it to our forebears, our families, our communities, and future generations to keep fighting for just causes. We, too, shall overcome. Ad Policy
Demonstrators march on the 60th anniversary of the March On Washington and Martin Luther King Jr’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on August 26, 2023.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
thenation.com | Sasha Abramsky |Rebecca Gordon
Politics / January 10, 2025 A Trump L’Oeil and More Signs of What’s to ComeTaking the president-elect at his word, it will only get worse from here. Ad Policy President-elect Donald Trump speaks to members of the media during a press conference at the Mar-a-Lago Club on January 7, 2025, in Palm Beach, Florida. (Scott Olson / Getty Images)This has not been a good week.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
thenation.com | Rebecca Gordon
January 9, 2025 How to Not Lose It Completely During Trump’s Second PresidencyIf we can’t count on this country’s vaunted checks and balances to either check or balance the power of an absurdist president, where else can we look? Ad Policy US Republican presidential nominee former president Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Herb Brooks National Hockey Center on July 27, 2024, in St Cloud, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen / Getty Images)This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Rebecca Gordon
December 4, 2024 Donald Trump’s Second Administration Will Be as Women-Hating as Ever“Your body, my choice” is only the beginning. Ad Policy Former US president Donald Trump during a campaign event at Alro Steel in Potterville, Michigan, on August 29, 2024. (Photographer: Emily Elconin / Bloomberg)This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com.
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Jul 28, 2024 | 
newpol.org | Rebecca Gordon
Rebecca Gordon taught for many years in the Philosophy department of the University of San Francisco, where she remains active in her union of part-time faculty. She’s the author of Mainstreaming Torture: Ethical Approaches in the Post-9/11 United States, American Nuremberg, and Letters from Nicaragua.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Rebecca Gordon
If you work for a living, or if you know and love people who do, there’s a lot on the line in this year’s election. Ad PolicyThis article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com. Recently, you may have noticed that the hot weather is getting ever hotter. Every year the United States swelters under warmer temperatures and longer periods of sustained heat.
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Rebecca Gordon
The Nation WeeklyFridays. A weekly digest of the best of our coverage. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for programs that support The Nation’s journalism. You may unsubscribe or adjust your preferences at any time. You can read our Privacy Policy here. Public branch libraries as we know them might never have existed if it weren’t for the munificence of a single obscenely rich private donor.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Rebecca Gordon
Displaced people are found worldwide in unprecedented numbers. Ad PolicyThis article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com. Back in 1968, my father announced that, if Richard Nixon were elected president that November, he was going to move us all to Canada.
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Chris Lehmann |Rebecca Gordon |John Nichols
Politics / In his testimony at his New York civil trial yesterday, the former president’s ramblings tried the judge’s patience. Ad PolicyIt speaks volumes about the overall health of the republic that the runaway leader for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination won’t take part in a debate but will spend a day in court testifying to his unassailable business acumen—and his ability to conjure up new variants of market value at his own executive caprice.
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Nov 6, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Rebecca Gordon |Jacob Silverman |David Klion |Jeet Heer
As we face so many crises globally, the legislative branch of the world’s (theoretically) most powerful country has ceased to function. Ad PolicyThis article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com. Sometimes the right wing in this country seems like a riddle wrapped in an enigma encased in a conundrum.
