Strategic Incompetence in the Age of Trump
Trump Is Bad at Running the Country.
How Will Your Data Be Deployed
In an Age of Dark Enlightenment?
Why America Might Want to Lower Its Expectations
Rebecca Gordon, author of American Nuremberg, reminds us, lest you think otherwise, this country remains all too exceptional, even if in ways that couldn’t be more unnerving.
Our Democracy’s Future Depends on Political Activists
Rebecca Gordon, just back from the front lines of the recent midterm elections, shares what she learned from her campaign work.
What Does It Mean that Women Now Dominate Higher Education?
The women who now make up the majority of college students may be missing their moment through no fault of their own.
Confessions of a Failed Tax Resister
Rebecca Gordon and her partner were both informal tax resisters due to their antiwar beliefs. But the day came when they could resist the most powerful government in the world…
Seeing the Future When No One Believes You
Alone among members of Congress in the days after the 9/11 attacks, Barbara Lee grasped what the future held and voted against the initial congressional Authorization for the Use of…
The Fires This Time: A Climate View from California
The situation is pretty dire: This state is now living through an epic drought.
Social Security Versus National Security
Is the Social Security system finally in trouble? It could be, thanks to the third-rail political issue of military spending.
Rethinking Employment in the Biden-Harris Era
In America, when you work, with rare exceptions, someone is always making money off you — often to your detriment, often to your bitter disappointment and pain.
Can We Finally Stop Marching to Disaster?
It’s almost twenty years since 9/11, why is it still all war, all the time?
Rebecca Gordon: The U.S. Deserves Its Own Nuremberg Trials
Nazi Germany’s crimes and the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may not be so different in the eyes of international law.