This Week with David Rovics

The Letter Liz Cheney Didn't Write, and the Movement That Isn't

Some of us were just going for the bread and circus, but when we went there, we found neither.

Travelogue 4.2025: Random Reflections of a Wobbly Wobbly

After our visit to Mexico, we spent several days in southern California and three weeks between England and Scotland.

"International Law" REMIX

Almost a month into Israel's complete blockade of food, water, medicine or anything else getting into the Gaza Strip, as the Israeli military orders mass evacuations of Palestinians to an unknown destination, here is Chet Gardiner's chilling remix of my most recent song about all of that.

New song: "International Law"

The only groups that are actually trying to enforce international law when it comes to Israel's war crimes are organizations that are illegal in many western countries to say anything nice about, or you risk being considered a terrorist.

New song: "The World According to MAGA"

Normally the ruling elite is supposed to be able to distinguish between reality and their own propaganda, even if most of the commoners believe it. With the new administration, it appears that these people actually believe their own lies, and are actively setting up a whole regime based on them being true.

New song: "St Patrick's Day in Churubusco"

A song about what Kamala and I have been doing for the past several days in Mexico City.

"Mahmoud Khalil" REMIX

As we wait to hear whether Mahmoud Khalil will be given a trial, be deported without one, sent to Guantanamo, or who knows what, here's Chet Gardiner's powerful remix of the song I just wrote.

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.