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Thomas Conner

Thomas Conner is a Visiting Professor of Media Studies at The University of Tulsa. He has worked as a journalist — chiefly as a music and cultural critic — for more than 30 years in Tulsa, New York, Chicago, and San Diego. Visit thomasconner.info for more.

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The Government Disappearing People Is Not New. Just Ask Woody Guthrie.

The Trump administration’s deportations have an eerie echo in Guthrie’s “Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee)” and the migrant deaths that inspired it

April 2, 2025