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The Trump Administration Is Reviving Institutionalized Torture

17.07.2025 2

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 20

CounterPunch

Rebecca Gordon

Kilmar Abrego García and the Trump Torture Regime

Kilmar Abrego García and the Trump Torture Regime
14.07.2025 2

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 10

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 7

Truthout

Rebecca Gordon

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

21.05.2025 6

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 10

CounterPunch

Rebecca Gordon

War on Terror Brain Rot Brought Us to This Point

03.05.2025 9

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 8

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 5

Common Dreams

Rebecca Gordon

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

24.03.2025 2

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 6

The Nation

Rebecca Gordon

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

08.02.2025 5

Common Dreams

Rebecca Gordon

How to Not Lose It Completely During Trump’s Second Presidency

09.01.2025 10

The Nation

Rebecca Gordon

Punch-Drunk But Still Ready to Fight Like Hell Against Fascist Trump

To check a power-mad president and his fascist handlers, those of us who are already punch-drunk but still standing in the ring will have to find...

08.01.2025 4

Common Dreams

Rebecca Gordon

In the Negative Spaces of the Trump Era

The expression “punch-drunk,” Google informs me, means “stupefied by or as if by a series of heavy blows to the head.” Google’s Oxford...

08.01.2025 6

CounterPunch

Rebecca Gordon

Our Fight Against Trumpism Must Center Respect for Human Dignity

The expression “punch-drunk,” Google informs me, means “stupefied by or as if by a series of heavy blows to the head.” Google’s Oxford...

08.01.2025 10

Truthout

Rebecca Gordon

Donald Trump's Second Administration Will Be as Women-Hating as Ever

04.12.2024 3

The Nation

Rebecca Gordon

Staring Down Misogyny

“I never realized before that men hate us so much.” That was the lesson drawn by one of my fellow organizers in Reno, Nevada, the morning after the...

03.12.2024 4

CounterPunch

Rebecca Gordon

Welcome to Gilead. Enjoy Your Stay in Trump 2.0's America

It's a real-life version of the fictionalized republic, where they really do hate women and they’re not afraid to say so.

02.12.2024 5

Common Dreams

Rebecca Gordon

How to Know When to Retire, If You Can Even Afford It

From the highest offices in politics to the smallest janitorial offices, older Americans are delaying retirement for a host of reasons from pride...

11.09.2024 4

Common Dreams

Rebecca Gordon