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A partial and incomplete retreat

Trump’s retreat was partial and incomplete. To begin with, the fate of thousands of children separated from their parents is no better now than it was two days ago. In some ways it is worse. These children are being shipped…

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Sobering

It would be ironic in other circumstances, but to see thousands of white Trump supporters in Duluth, MN at a Trump rally last night wildly cheering Trump’s most inflammatory rhetoric against immigrants from Central America is sobering, to say the…

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The connection between north and south

Lots of people think that the conditions of underdevelopment — economic and otherwise — in the Global South in general and in Central American countries in particular where families are fleeing to our border is the handiwork of the people…

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Happy Father’s Day

I carry you forward in more ways than one. Happy Father’s Day, Pops! You had a chrome heart and that’s no small thing.      

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Loose ends in dangerous times

1. The old global order dominated by US imperial power with its many contradictions and inequalities is cracking along many seams. But what is much less evident is what will replace it. I would like to be optimistic, but given…