This Week with David Rovics

New song: "Mahmoud Khalil"

ICE agents taking orders directly from the top and disappearing a student activist with no warrant, no due process, canceling his green card and holding him incommunicado in an unknown location, this is what's happening in the USA right now.

The Disconnected 20% That Runs It All

Some thoughts on that majority element of top-quintile US society that persistently refers to itself as "the middle class."

"Toddlers-in-Chief" REMIX

Another fab remix from Chet Gardiner, of a song that's at least as relevant as it was a few days ago, when I wrote it, after that meeting in the Oval Office.

March 15-16 the Make the Planet Earth Great Again WORLD TOUR begins in MEXICO CITY!

The Ministry of Culture is thrilled to be kicking off our 2025 bout of touring with the St. Patrick's Weekend events in Mexico City! We're also looking forward to LA, London, Glasgow and elsewhere after that! More info: davidrovics.com/tour

New song: "Toddlers-in-Chief"

I'm constantly unable to decide whether they're brilliantly theatrical, Machiavellian coup-plotters or just bumbling billionaires whose emotional development stalled out a long time ago.

New song: "Meanwhile in Gaza"

The Israeli government has shut off the Gaza Ghetto completely, so no food can get in.  After a brief message from our sponsors, this holocaust now continues.

The People Want Music

I have some free advice to anyone trying to organize a memorable protest or a successful social movement.

Jury Duty

I don't know what came over me, but this time when I got the summons for jury duty, I didn't make up a reason why I couldn't do it.  Next time I get such a summons, I'll make sure I'm out of town, or have a sick child to care for.

"What do you mean you haven't seen the new Dylan movie?!"

Somehow I have a lot to say about a movie I haven't seen yet. Sort of a non-review here.

"It's A Coup" REMIX

OK, now they're firing all the military lawyers who are supposed to be responsible for determining whether a command is legal or not.  Folks, this is definitely a coup, in case there was any question.  This is not a corruption cleanup operation, it is a dictatorship installation operation.  Here's Chet Gardiner's hopping remix of the song I wrote about it earlier this month.