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A Radical Message From a Half-Century Ago

By Ira Chernus / TomDispatch Apr 18, 2017 The largest mobilization for progressive politics since the Vietnam era offers an opportunity to go beyond treating symptoms and start offering cures for underlying illnesses. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

America’s Reckless War Against Evil

By Ira Chernus / TomDispatch Dec 9, 2015 After the attacks in Paris, Barack Obama called Islamic State “the face of evil.” The “evildoers” are back. And from every mountaintop, it seems, America rings with calls to ramp up its war machine. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Apocalypses Everywhere

By Ira Chernus, TomDispatch Feb 27, 2014 Two clouds of genuine doom still darken our world: nuclear extermination and environmental extinction. If they got the urgent action they deserve, they would be at the top of our political priority list. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Political Dreaming in the Twenty-First Century

By Ira Chernus, TomDispatch Jul 27, 2013 All right, I confess: I have a dream. I bet you do, too. I bet yours, like mine, is of a far, far better world not only for yourself and your loved ones, but for everyone on this beleaguered planet of ours. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Obama Walks the High Wire, Eyes Closed

By Ira Chernus, TomDispatch Apr 2, 2013 To broker a great peace in the Middle East, the president will have to mollify both the center-left and the right in Israel, balance Israeli and Palestinian demands, march with Netanyahu up to the edge of war with Iran, calibrate the ratcheting up of sanctions on Iran, and prevent the Syrian civil war from spilling into Israel, all while maintaining order between the left and right at home. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )