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Rebecca Gordon

Rebecca Gordon, a TomDispatch regular, teaches at the University of San Francisco. She is the author of Mainstreaming Torture, 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.

Don’t Try to Find a Home in Washington, D.C.

Or Pretty Much Anywhere Else If You’re a Renter

By Rebecca Gordon On March 16, 2023On March 22, 2023

Rain and Heat, Fire and Snow

Life in a Destabilized California

By Rebecca Gordon On February 5, 2023On February 5, 2023

American Exceptionalism on Full Display

Why This Country Might Want to Lower Its Expectations

By Rebecca Gordon On January 8, 2023On January 8, 2023

Living for Politics

Or “Just Living”?

By Rebecca Gordon On December 6, 2022On December 6, 2022

Returning to Reno

In the Shadow of Roe’s Undoing

By Rebecca Gordon On July 10, 2022On July 10, 2022

Fewer Big (or Any Size) Men on Campus

What Does It Mean that Women Now Dominate Higher Education?

By Rebecca Gordon On June 9, 2022On June 9, 2022

The Personal Is Still Political

And It’s Planetary, Too

By Rebecca Gordon On May 15, 2022On May 15, 2022

“Too Distraught”

Confessions of a Failed Tax Resister

By Rebecca Gordon On April 12, 2022On April 12, 2022

Keep Your LAWS Off My Planet

Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Fight to Contain Them

By Rebecca Gordon On January 9, 2022On January 9, 2022

Supply-Chain Woes

The “Graveyard Shift” in a Pandemic World

By Rebecca Gordon On November 30, 2021On November 30, 2021

Seeing the Future

When No One Believes You

By Rebecca Gordon On October 17, 2021On October 24, 2021

Debt and Disillusionment

How College Is Like the Airplane Game

By Rebecca Gordon On August 17, 2021On August 17, 2021

The Fires This Time

A Climate View from California

By Rebecca Gordon On July 11, 2021On July 11, 2021

Social Security Versus National Security

Whose Entitlement Really Makes Us Safer?

By Rebecca Gordon On June 15, 2021On June 15, 2021

Rethinking Employment in the Biden-Harris Era

And My Own Looming Job Crisis

By Rebecca Gordon On March 9, 2021On May 15, 2021

The Fire Next Time

Climate Change, the Bomb, or the Flame of Hope?

By Rebecca Gordon On February 9, 2021On February 12, 2021

The Rubble of Empire

Doctrines of Disaster and Dreams of Security as the Biden Years Begin

By Rebecca Gordon On January 19, 2021On May 15, 2021

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 May 15, 2021

Guns, Germs, and Smoke

UNITE-HERE! Canvassers Take on Trump in Nevada

By Rebecca Gordon On October 20, 2020On May 15, 2021

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 May 15, 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 May 15, 2021

Strange Attractors

On Being Addicted to Trump and His Press Conferences

By Rebecca Gordon On April 19, 2020On May 15, 2021

The Future May Be Female

But the Pandemic Is Patriarchal

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

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