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Rebecca Gordon

Rebecca Gordon, a TomDispatch regular, teaches at the University of San Francisco. She is the author of American Nuremberg: The U.S. Officials Who Should Stand Trial for Post-9/11 War Crimes and is now at work on a new book on the history of torture in the United States.

It’s Almost Twenty Years Since 9/11

Can We Finally Stop Marching to Disaster?

By Rebecca Gordon On December 17, 2020On January 14, 2021

In a Looking-Glass World

Our Work Is Just Beginning

By Rebecca Gordon On November 5, 2020On December 26, 2020

Why Does Essential Work Pay So Little…

And Cost So Much?

By Rebecca Gordon On July 23, 2020On July 23, 2020

Fear of Falling

Can Making Black Lives Matter Rescue a Failing State?

By Rebecca Gordon On June 30, 2020On January 14, 2021

How the Credibility Gap Became a Chasm in the Age of Trump

… And a New Generation Gap Grew Wider

By Rebecca Gordon On June 2, 2020On June 2, 2020

Strange Attractors

On Being Addicted to Trump and His Press Conferences

By Rebecca Gordon On April 19, 2020On April 21, 2020

The Future May Be Female

But the Pandemic Is Patriarchal

By Rebecca Gordon On March 31, 2020On April 2, 2020

“The Right to Do Whatever I Want as President”

Impunity Guaranteed for Torturers (and Presidents)

By Rebecca Gordon On February 18, 2020On February 18, 2020

That Expression Trump Keeps Using

It Doesn’t Mean What He Thinks It Means

By Rebecca Gordon On January 14, 2020On January 14, 2020

What’s Wrong With the Republicans?

Fruits of the Twin Roots of Evil: Slavery and Imperial Expansion

By Rebecca Gordon On December 5, 2019On December 5, 2019

Extorting Ukraine is Bad Enough

But Trump Has Done Much Worse

By Rebecca Gordon On October 15, 2019On October 15, 2019

What Happens in El Norte

Doesn’t Stay in El Norte

By Rebecca Gordon On August 15, 2019On August 15, 2019

The Personal Is Still Political

And It’s Planetary, Too

By Rebecca Gordon On July 14, 2019On July 15, 2019

Clemency for the Lowly

Free Passes for the Mighty

By Rebecca Gordon On June 6, 2019On July 3, 2019

Spring Stirrings and Misgivings

Of Autocrats and Uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa

By Rebecca Gordon On May 2, 2019On May 2, 2019

How to Make Yourself an Exception to the Rule of Law

John Bolton and Mike Pompeo Defy the International Criminal Court

By Rebecca Gordon On March 26, 2019On March 27, 2019

From Mowing the Grass to Cutting the Flesh

How Young Women Learn to Hate Their Genitals

By Rebecca Gordon On March 7, 2019On March 7, 2019

The Uses of a Well-Regulated Militia by an Unregulated President

Where Will the National Guard Be Sent in 2019?

By Rebecca Gordon On February 10, 2019On February 10, 2019

A Twenty-First-Century Incredibility Chasm

Life in the United States of Trump

By Rebecca Gordon On January 10, 2019On January 10, 2019

Life at Trump Speed

Mental Whiplash and Forgotten Outrages

By Rebecca Gordon On December 6, 2018On December 6, 2018

A Chance to Swing the Senate

Cooks and Casino Workers Take on Trump

By Rebecca Gordon On October 11, 2018On October 11, 2018

Holding the Line on Torture

One Organization at a Time

By Rebecca Gordon On September 9, 2018On September 9, 2018

Middle East Alliances, Old and New

Confronting “That Part of the World”

By Rebecca Gordon On July 19, 2018On July 19, 2018

Nicaragua at the Barricades

…And a Crossroads

By Rebecca Gordon On June 24, 2018On June 25, 2018

Trump Drones On

How Unpiloted Aircraft Expand the War on Terror

By Rebecca Gordon On May 24, 2018On June 20, 2018

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