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Henry Alfred Kissinger turned 100 on May 27th of this year. Once a teenage refugee from Nazi Germany, for many decades an…
Rebecca Gordon
Rebecca Gordon 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.
In 1963, the summer I turned 11, my mother had a gig evaluating Peace Corps programs in Egypt and Ethiopia. My younger…
One day when I was about six, I was walking with my dad in New York City. We noticed that someone had…
We’ve just passed through tax time again. (Unless, like me, you live in one of several states ravaged by recent extreme weather events brought on…
In 1937, the American folklorist Alan Lomax invited Louisiana folksinger Huddie Ledbetter (better known as Lead Belly) to record some of his songs for the…
It was January 1983 and raining in San Francisco. The summer before, I’d moved here from Portland, Oregon, a city known for…
Let me start with a confession: I no longer read all the way through newspaper stories about the war in Ukraine. After…
Recently, I told my friend Mimi that, only weeks from now, I was returning to Reno to help UNITE-HERE, the hospitality industry union, in…
What Does It Mean that Women Now Dominate Higher Education?
Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Fight to Contain Them