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Aviva Chomsky

Aviva Chomsky, a TomDispatch regular, is professor of history and coordinator of Latin American studies at Salem State University in Massachusetts. Her latest book, Is Science Enough?  Forty Critical Questions about Climate Justice, is just about to be published.

The United States Is Exceptional

Just Not in the Ways Any of Us Should Want

By Aviva Chomsky On March 24, 2022On March 26, 2022

Migration Is Not the Crisis

What Washington Could Really Do in Central America

By Aviva Chomsky On July 18, 2021On July 21, 2021

Will Biden’s Central American Plan Slow Migration (or Speed It Up)?

The New Border Politics of the Biden Era Are Actually Ancient History

By Aviva Chomsky On March 30, 2021On March 30, 2021

Jobs, the Environment, and a Planet in Crisis

Unions vs. Environmentalists or Unions and Environmentalists?

By Aviva Chomsky On August 6, 2019On May 15, 2021

The DNA Industry and the Disappearing Indian

DNA, Race, and Native Rights

By Aviva Chomsky On November 29, 2018On May 15, 2021

Talking Sense About Immigration

Rejecting the President’s Manichaean Worldview

By Aviva Chomsky On March 13, 2018On May 15, 2021

Making Sense of the Deportation Debate

How Bill Clinton and Barack Obama Laid the Groundwork for Trump’s Immigration Policies

By Aviva Chomsky On April 25, 2017On May 15, 2021

Is Trump an Aberration?

The Dark History of the “Nation of Immigrants”

By Aviva Chomsky On September 13, 2016On May 15, 2021

The Battle for the Soul of American Higher Education

Student Protest, the Black Lives Matter Movement, and the Rise of the Corporate University

By Aviva Chomsky On May 22, 2016On May 22, 2016

All the News That’s Fit to Print

How the Media Hide Undocumented Workers

By Aviva Chomsky On February 4, 2016On February 4, 2016

America’s Continuing Border Crisis

The Real Story Behind the “Invasion” of the Children

By Aviva Chomsky On August 24, 2014On August 24, 2014

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