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Even in This Chaotic Moment, We Can't Forget About Central America

Rebecca Gordon

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The Nation

Rebecca Gordon

A Warning From El Salvador

A Warning From El Salvador

Daily news & progressive opinion—funded by the people, not the corporations—delivered straight to your inbox.

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Common Dreams

Rebecca Gordon

Gangs and Climate Change, Born in the USA

Recently, I had the opportunity to stand in a friend’s kitchen eating pupusas, the Salvadoran national food, while listening to an update on...

05.05.2026 2

CounterPunch

Rebecca Gordon

The American Gulag 2026

The March 4, 2026, edition of the Arizona Daily Star put the facts succinctly: “A Haitian asylum seeker held for four months at Florence...

25.03.2026 40

CounterPunch

Rebecca Gordon

US Concentration Camps Exist to Expand the Power of Trump’s Authoritarian Regime

Local actions have proven effective in resisting the creation of the camps our federal government is constructing.

24.03.2026 10

Truthout

Rebecca Gordon

The Dead and the Dying in Trump's American Gulag

Daily news & progressive opinion—funded by the people, not the corporations—delivered straight to your inbox.

24.03.2026 10

Common Dreams

Rebecca Gordon

Trump's Cruelty Is the Point: Making America Vicious and Unwelcoming Whether You Live Here or Not

Daily news & progressive opinion—funded by the people, not the corporations—delivered straight to your inbox.

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Common Dreams

Rebecca Gordon

12 Years of Lies, Torture, Drones.... and Hope?

13.01.2026 30

Common Dreams

Rebecca Gordon

Reflections on a Low, Dishonest Decade

“Tom, I got nothin’.” That’s all I wanted to say to Tom Engelhardt, the kindly and incisive editor of TomDispatch.com. He’d called to check...

13.01.2026 20

CounterPunch

Rebecca Gordon

We Need to Pay Attention to What’s Going on in Sudan

31.12.2025 20

The Nation

Rebecca Gordon

Why the US People Should Remember Sudan

16.12.2025 20

Common Dreams

Rebecca Gordon

Sudan, the Forgotten Genocide

Follow a line south and west from the Gaza Strip, continue through Egypt, and you’ll end up in another place where a genocide is in progress. It’s...

15.12.2025 40

CounterPunch

Rebecca Gordon

Trump’s Secret Weapon Is His Incompetence

04.11.2025 10

The Nation

Rebecca Gordon

Trump Is Bad at Running the Country

I first heard the expression “strategic incompetence” in El Salvador in December 1993. Along with my partner and two friends, I’d been recruited...

29.10.2025 20

CounterPunch

Rebecca Gordon

The Trump Administration: Strategic Incompetence or Garden-Variety Stupidity?

28.10.2025 10

Common Dreams

Rebecca Gordon

Stop Trump and His Supreme Court From Tightening the Circle of Personhood ​

26.09.2025 10

Common Dreams

Rebecca Gordon

Going Backwards on Rights with Trump

Warning: dangers in the mirror are often closer than they may appear. In other words, the next few paragraphs may seem to be hyperbole but are, in...

26.09.2025 20

CounterPunch

Rebecca Gordon

On Seeing the Future Too Clearly

I spent the summer of 1965 arguing about the Vietnam War. I was 13, and my interlocutor was my 18-year-old camp counselor in Vermont. She was headed...

20.08.2025 10

CounterPunch

Rebecca Gordon

The Pain of Repeating ‘We Told You So’

On issues ranging from the Vietnam War and the War on Terror to the genocide in Gaza and Trump's authoritarianism, progressives have a history of...

19.08.2025 40

Common Dreams

Rebecca Gordon

The Trump Administration Is Reviving Institutionalized Torture

17.07.2025 10

The Nation

Rebecca Gordon

The Trump Administration Revives Institutionalized Torture

I didn’t want to write this article. In fact, I had something relatively uplifting planned: an Independence Day piece about the rich implications...

15.07.2025 30

CounterPunch

Rebecca Gordon

Kilmar Abrego García and the Trump Torture Regime

14.07.2025 10

Common Dreams

Rebecca Gordon

Big Brother Trump Is Watching You

28.06.2025 10

Common Dreams

Rebecca Gordon

In an Age of Dark Enlightenment?

Sometime in the late 1980s, I was talking with a friend on my landline (the only kind of telephone we had then). We were discussing logistics for an...

25.06.2025 20

CounterPunch

Rebecca Gordon

Trump Admin and Allies Work to Create One Big Beautiful Database of Surveillance

DOGE has already made progress in assembling the personal details of hundreds of millions of individuals.

24.06.2025 10

Truthout

Rebecca Gordon

Trump and Co Are Doing Their Best to Make America White Again (As If It Ever Was!)

21.05.2025 10

Common Dreams

Rebecca Gordon

Donald Trump’s War on Black People

On May 5th, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute held its annual fundraising gala. The event showcases the extraordinary...

21.05.2025 20

CounterPunch

Rebecca Gordon

War on Terror Brain Rot Brought Us to This Point

03.05.2025 10

The Nation

Rebecca Gordon

Trump Harvests Autocratic Powers

In 2003, the Macedonian police arrested Khaled el-Masri, a German citizen vacationing in their country. They handed the unfortunate man over to the...

23.04.2025 10

CounterPunch

Rebecca Gordon

It didn’t start with Donald Trump

Donald Trump has his very own “black site” now — but he's not the first U.S. president

22.04.2025 10

Salon

Rebecca Gordon

Trump's Lawlessness Comes From Seeds Planted by Bush-Cheney

21.04.2025 10

Common Dreams

Rebecca Gordon

Trump—Seeking Revenge for His Mortality—Wages War on Everything That Lives

24.03.2025 10

Common Dreams

Rebecca Gordon

Trump Rages to Snuff Out Democracy’s Candle

Allow me to stipulate that I do not wish to die. In fact, had anyone consulted me about the construction of the universe, I would have made my views...

24.03.2025 20

CounterPunch

Rebecca Gordon

Trump's Plan Is to Flood the Zone With Garbage

21.02.2025 10

The Nation

Rebecca Gordon

Will We Look at the Beginning of Trump’s Second Term as the Beginning of the End?

08.02.2025 10

Common Dreams

Rebecca Gordon