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Rebecca Gordon

Rebecca Gordon teaches at the University of San Francisco. She is the author of "Mainstreaming Torture: Ethical Approaches in the Post-9/11 United States" and "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.

President Trump and Elon Musk during happier days at a SpaceX launch. This week, another rocket exploded during testing, just one part of a brutal stretch for Musk that includes AI losses, political fallout and a fraying public image. (Brandon Bell / Getty Images)

Trump’s united surveillance states of America: How will your data be deployed?

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George W. Bush and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

It didn’t start with Donald Trump

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U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA), Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and Senator Eugene McCarthy (D-MN) (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The curse of Cassandra: We could see the future — but no one listened

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Library In Reading Pennsylvania (Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images)

MAGA threat to public libraries exposes Trump’s movement to “Make America Grotesque Again”

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Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks speaks at a campaign rally at Drake Enterprises, an automotive parts manufacturer, on September 27, 2023 in Clinton Township, Michigan. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Trump’s Schedule F (for “Failed State”): Are Republicans fascists or nihilists — or both?

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President Donald Trump meets with Dr. Henry Kissinger in the Oval Office at the White House, Oct. 10, 2017. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Henry Kissinger at 100: A centenarian with a remarkable life — and still a war criminal

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Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Yes, we have home-grown fascists — and now they’re beginning to say the quiet part out loud

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Professors on campus looking at a tablet (Getty stock photos)

Is higher education a pyramid scheme?

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A burned residence smolders during the Bear fire, part of the North Lightning Complex fires, in unincorporated Butte County, California on September 09, 2020. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

The fires this time: a climate view from California

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U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the economy in the East Room of the White House on May 10, 2021 in Washington, DC. Biden addressed criticism from Republicans after a weaker than expected April jobs report. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Under Joe Biden, the national security budget remains the third rail of US politics

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A campaign sign supporting Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) sits in the front yard of a home on November 01, 2020 in Racine, Wisconsin. Today is the final day for early voting in Wisconsin, a state which President Donald Trump won with less than 1 percent of the vote in 2016. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Rethinking employment in the Biden-Harris era: I just learned to weave. Is that “work”?

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Supporters of President Trump rally outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Oct. 3, 2020 in Bethesda, Maryland. Trump arrived at the hospital yesterday after testing positive for COVID-19. (Alex Edelman/Getty Images)

The rubble of empire

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The main gate at the prison in Guantanamo at the U.S. Guantanamo Naval Base on October 16, 2018. (Sylvie Lanteaume/AFP via Getty Images)

It’s been almost 20 years since 9/11 — can we finally stop marching to disaster?

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In a looking-glass world: Our work is just beginning

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Migrant workers harvesting sweet potatoes in Mechanicsville, Va. (USDA/Civil Eats)

Work in the time of COVID-19: Why does essential work pay so little and cost so much?

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President Donald Trump points to a reporter to ask a question as he speaks about the coronavirus, as White House adviser Jared Kushner listens. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

How the credibility gap became a chasm in the age of Trump

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Donald Trump (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky/Salon)

Strange attractors: On being addicted to Trump and his press conferences

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U.S. President Donald Trump vs The Women's March (Getty Images/Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/LightRocket/Chip Somodevilla)

The future may be female, but the pandemic is old school patriarchy

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President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020, as Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker Nancy Pelosi look on. (Leah Millis/Pool via AP)

“The right to do whatever I want as president”

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Deep state: It doesn’t mean what Trump thinks it means

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UNITED STATES - DECEMBER 4: Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, speaks during the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the impeachment inquiry of President Trump in Longworth Building on Wednesday Dec. 4, 2019. (Photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) (Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

What’s wrong with the Republicans?

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President Donald Trump comes out of the Oval Office for his departure from the White House on September 16, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)

Extorting Ukraine is bad enough, but Trump has done much worse

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The personal is still political

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1st Lt. Michael C. Behenna; Donald Trump (AP/Getty/Salon)

Clemency for the lowly: free passes for the mighty

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