Sasha Abramsky

Columnist Sasha Abramsky in The Paper. — When I was sixteen, I traveled with a friend from England to the East Coast of the United States. Relying on the hospitality of relatives and family friends, we dotted up and down the coasts, and a few places in between, in two months exploring this vast Country. We […]

Columnist Sasha Abramsky in The Paper. — When I was sixteen, I traveled with a friend from England to the East Coast of the United States. Relying on the hospitality of relatives and family friends, we dotted up and down the coasts, and a few places in between, in two months exploring this vast Country. We […]

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Trump's constant cruelty can make it all seem routine. Early Tuesday morning, ICE agents shot dead Lorenzo Salgado Araujo , a Houston resident

The would-be tyrant finds targets new and old for his feckless insults

President Donald Trump recently reposted a racist attack against Somali kindergartners . Not adults or teens, but 4- and 5-year-old kids.

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Early Wednesday morning, Trump announced on social media that every time the Iranians hit a ship in the Straits of Hormuz, the US military would take out an Iranian bridge or power plant.

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In 2015, my editors at the Nation first set me on the task of covering Donald Trump by asking me to write about his coarse, mobster-like use of the English language.