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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.

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 May 15, 2021

What Happens in El Norte

Doesn’t Stay in El Norte

By Rebecca Gordon On August 15, 2019On May 15, 2021

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 May 15, 2021

Spring Stirrings and Misgivings

Of Autocrats and Uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa

By Rebecca Gordon On May 2, 2019On May 15, 2021

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 May 15, 2021

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 May 15, 2021

A Twenty-First-Century Incredibility Chasm

Life in the United States of Trump

By Rebecca Gordon On January 10, 2019On May 15, 2021

Life at Trump Speed

Mental Whiplash and Forgotten Outrages

By Rebecca Gordon On December 6, 2018On May 15, 2021

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 May 15, 2021

Nicaragua at the Barricades

…And a Crossroads

By Rebecca Gordon On June 24, 2018On May 15, 2021

Trump Drones On

How Unpiloted Aircraft Expand the War on Terror

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

Want to Bring Down Donald Trump?

Follow the People Who Follow the Money

By Rebecca Gordon On April 29, 2018On May 15, 2021

Trump’s Recycling Program

War Crimes and War Criminals, Old and (Potentially) New

By Rebecca Gordon On March 29, 2018On May 15, 2021

The 9/11 Hijackers Were Iraqis, Right?

Teaching in a Time of Wars

By Rebecca Gordon On February 22, 2018On February 22, 2018

Becoming Stable Geniuses

Seeking New (and Very Old) Habits for a New Year

By Rebecca Gordon On January 21, 2018On January 22, 2018

The President Plays with Matches

And the Whole World Burns

By Rebecca Gordon On December 17, 2017On May 15, 2021

On the Rehabilitation of George W. Bush

Say It Again: The Enemy of Our Enemy Is Still a War Criminal

By Rebecca Gordon On November 21, 2017On May 15, 2021

Trump’s Nuclear Dreams

Nightmares Past and Present

By Rebecca Gordon On October 26, 2017On May 15, 2021

When All the World’s a War…

And All the Men and Women Merely Soldiers

By Rebecca Gordon On August 15, 2017On May 15, 2021

America at War Since 9/11

Reality or Reality TV?

By Rebecca Gordon On June 27, 2017On May 15, 2021

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