This post first appeared on TomDispatch Joe Biden’s got a problem — and so do I. And so, in fact, do we. At 76 years old, you’d think I’d experienced it all when it comes to this country and its presidencies. Or most of it, anyway. I’ve been around since Franklin D. Roosevelt was president. Born on July 20, 1944, I’m a little “young” to remember him, though I was a war baby in an era when ...
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June 19, 2020We are deep in the age of disappointment on (as Donald Trump has only accentuated) an increasingly disposable planet.
June 1, 2020Class of 2020, wherever you are, I had planned to address you on this graduation day. But how can I? Yes, I know that former President Obama, Oprah Winfrey, and Tom Hanks all took part in elaborate online graduation ceremonies, offering commentary, advice, and encouragement in our now campus-less world, but I’m a hapless old guy with a flip phone from another age. And, of course, you’re not here on this glorious, sunny graduation day. There’s no verdant campus. No ...
November 30, 2017Why we need to stare at you-know-who — without looking away.
November 2, 2017The apocalyptic humiliation of 9/11 has shown us just what the al-Qaida leader could goad a triumphalist Washington into.
October 17, 2017By removing most Americans from the combat arena, we gained the ability to wage war forever, and damn the consequences.
September 6, 2017In America’s wars, failure is the new success.
May 30, 2017Trump is teaching us how deeply disturbed our American world actually is.
February 9, 2017The 25/8 news cycle is already rolling, but the looting of America hasn’t really begun.
October 7, 2016And truly, this is not about Donald Trump... it's about us.
