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Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East and the Balkans for fifteen years for  The New York Times.  He previously worked overseas for  The Dallas Morning News ,  The Christian Science Monitor , and NPR. He is host of the Emmy Award­–nominated RT America show  On Contact.  Hedges, who holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard University, is the author of numerous books, and was a National Book Critics Circle finalist for  War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning . He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University, and the University of Toronto. He has taught college credit courses through Rutgers University in the New Jersey prison system since 2013.

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  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster (August 27, 2019)
  • Length: 400 pages
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“Searing portraits . . . of individuals victimized in six arenas that [Hedges] explores in detail: drug addiction, pornography, gambling, the criminal justice system, extremist groups and the search for meaningful, well-paid work. He takes the reader inside these issues in ways that are often telling and memorable.”

– Thomas Carothers, The Washington Post

“Chris Hedges wants us to face realities. Our society is unraveling, institutionally and structurally, and is being replaced by the corporate state of merging big business and government. Commercialism overwhelms civic values, impoverishes its subjects, and reaches into childhoods bypassing parental authority. Poverty, addiction, gambling, and hopelessness spread like epidemics. Only we the people can reverse the disintegration of democracy by plutocracy. In America: The Farewell Tour, Chris Hedges depicts the horrifying truths on the ground from which resistance rises to jolt us into an active, realizable culture of reconstruction.”

– Ralph Nader

"An exceedingly dark, passionate, and provocative book, certain to arouse controversy but offering a point of view that needs to be heard."

“Chris Hedges is perhaps today’s most important public intellectual, and America: the Farewell Tour is perhaps his most important book. If we as a society are able to move past our current ‘sickness unto death,’ as Kierkegaard put it, it will be in great measure thanks to books like this one.”

– Derrick Jensen, author of A Language Older Than Words and The Culture of Make Believe

“Hedges writes a requiem for the American dream. . . . [A] fiery sermon that weighs the nation and finds it wanting.”

– Kirkus Reviews

“Hedges’s latest critique of late-stage capitalist America is forceful and direct."

– Publishers Weekly

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AMERICA The Farewell Tour By Chris Hedges 388 pp. Simon & Schuster. $27.

Chris Hedges is a bundle of contradictions and so too is his new book, “America: The Farewell Tour.”

As a New York Times reporter covering the Middle East, Hedges won praise from all quarters. The conservative Christopher Caldwell wrote in a 2002 review of an earlier Hedges book, “War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning,” that Hedges “has proved a correspondent of unusual bravery, stubbornness and independence. By going AWOL from the U.S. military’s press pool during the gulf war, he became one of the few eyewitnesses to American-Iraqi gunfights. He was among the rare big-time reporters to cover the Kosovo War as a war and not a morality play. His remorseless chronicling of the criminality and thuggery of our allies in the Kosovo Liberation Army is one of the high points of post-Vietnam War journalism.”

At the same time, Caldwell was on to a problem: Hedges’ “tone is often marked by an argument-foreclosing condescension.” “Is this moral reflection,” Caldwell asked, “or moralistic preening?”

In his current book, Hedges raises provocative questions. Has the destructive aspect of capitalism reached a tipping point? Are drug abuse, pornography and gambling emblematic of a free market run amok? Are the vacant shells of cities like Scranton, Dayton, Buffalo, Youngstown and Cleveland the inevitable consequences of an economy based on greed?

Hedges’ answer consists of a grim doubling down. “The American Empire is coming to an end,” he writes. “The death spiral appears unstoppable, meaning the United States as we know it will no longer exist within a decade or, at most, two.”

Traditional institutions of liberalism, including the Democratic Party, are, in Hedges’ view, hopelessly corrupted. “The ruling elites,” he says, “bought the allegiances of the two main political parties by purging … New Deal Democrats and corporate and imperial critics. They imposed obedience to corporate capitalism and globalization within academia and the press.”

Hedges’ indictment names names: “Self-identified liberals such as Bill and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama mouthed the words of liberal democratic values while making war on these values in the service of corporate power.” Even liberal nonprofit organizations like MoveOn.org and the Sierra Club “are feeble appendages to a corporatized Democratic Party.”

Hedges is a Harvard Divinity School graduate and an ordained Presbyterian minister. His ecclesiastical immersion shows. This passage is long but revealing of his mind-set:

“The violence and commodification of human beings for profit are the quintessential expressions of global capitalism. Our corporate masters are pimps. We are all being debased and degraded, rendered impoverished and powerless, to service the cruel and lascivious demands of the corporate elite. And when they tire of us, or when we are no longer of use, we are discarded. If the United States accepts prostitution as legal and permissible in a civil society, as Germany has done, we will take one more collective step toward the global plantation being built by the powerful. The fight against prostitution is the fight against a dehumanizing corporate capitalism that begins, but will not end, with the subjugation of impoverished girls and women.”

Insofar as Hedges holds out any hope, it is through local community organizing and groups like Black Lives Matter. For the most part, however, the prospects for the country are bleak: “This moment in history marks the end of a long, sad tale of greed and murder by the white races. It is inevitable that for the final show we vomited up a figure like Trump.”

Both righteous and self-righteous, Hedges is addicted to fire and brimstone. A Jeremiah preaching eternal damnation, he is adding to the already crowded shelf of American narratives of decline. His call springs not only from Jonathan Edwards and Cotton Mather but also from spoiled preachers like Jimmy Swaggart and James Bakker, and now from Donald Trump. It’s a call that has echoed down through the ages: “Drain the Swamp.”

Thomas B. Edsall covered national politics for The Washington Post for 25 years and since 2011 has been a contributing Op-Ed writer for The Times.

America: The Farewell Tour

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Chris Hedges’s profound and unsettling examination of America in crisis is “an exceedingly…provocative book, certain to arouse controversy, but offering a point of view that needs to be heard” ( Booklist ), about how bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in a culture of sadism and hate. America, says Pulitzer Prize­–winning reporter Chris Hedges, is convulsed by an array of pathologies that have arisen out of profound hopelessness, a bitter despair, and a civil society that has ceased to function. The opioid crisis; the retreat into gambling to cope with economic distress; the pornification of culture; the rise of magical thinking; the celebration of sadism, hate, and plagues of suicides are the physical manifestations of a society that is being ravaged by corporate pillage and a failed democracy. As our society unravels, we also face global upheaval caused by catastrophic climate change. All these ills presage a frightening reconfiguration of the nation and the planet. Donald Trump rode this disenchantment to power. In his “forceful and direct” ( Publishers Weekly ) America: The Farewell Tour , Hedges argues that neither political party, now captured by corporate power, addresses the systemic problem. Until our corporate coup d’état is reversed these diseases will grow and ravage the country. “With sharply observed detail, Hedges writes a requiem for the American dream” ( Kirkus Reviews ) and seeks to jolt us out of our complacency while there is still time.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY JUN 4, 2018

Journalist Hedges's latest critique of late-stage capitalist America is forceful and direct, reflecting a weary despair backed up by diligent reporting. He sees the ills of drugs, gambling, pornography, hate groups, mass incarceration, and an oppressive state as evidence of a "creeping corporate coup d' tat," decries the fiction of an economic recovery, and paints the election of Donald Trump and the ascendancy of "his coterie of billionaires, generals, half-wits, Christian fascists, criminals, racists and moral deviants" as embodying "the moral rot unleashed by unfettered capitalism." He turns an unflinching eye on the opioid crisis, the evisceration of organized labor, and the resurgence of hate groups, and supports his contention that laborers are on a "global plantation built by the powerful" with harrowing descriptions of sex work in the pornography-industrial complex. In Hedges's view, the few positive responses left to Americans are to band together for small-scale socialist enterprise and community, and engage in "a global fight for life against corporate tyranny" as exemplified by the protests against industry might and police power in Standing Rock, S.Dak., and Ferguson, Mo. Though this account is trenchant, even the staunchest adherents of Hedges's unreconstructed socialist views may feel drained by the unrelenting bleakness of its worldview.

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“America: The Farewell Tour” by Chris Hedges: a review

Posted on Mar 12, 2019

Reviewed by Robert R. Thomas

An unsettling childhood memory is that things were not as they seemed, and nobody was talking about it. My brother Alan succinctly described our childhood milieu as a “culture of silence.” While reading America: The Farewell Tour , by Chris Hedges, that childhood culture of silence revisited me.

The book’s chapter s—DECAY, HEROIN, WORK, SADISM, HATE, GAMBLING and FREEDOM—are lucid reveals about the fall of empire, historically and currently. The book’s  focus is a deep dive into pathologies of self-annihilation, both individually and culturally.

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Drawing on sociologist Emile Durkheim’s 1897 classic treatise, On Suicide , which holds that what drives a person to kill is a yearning for self-extinction, Hedges references the term, “anomie,” which Durkheim  defines as “rulelessness,” a society that no longer has rules, or at least the rules are no longer obeyed. Once anomie grips a society, a series of self-annihilating pathologies arise. Anomie runs rampant through America, as Hedges delineates in America: The Farewell Tour .

DECAY plunges the reader into the heart of economic darkness in empire’s failures through the lens of a deindustrialized American city, Scranton, Pennsylvania. After the city’s many attempts to keep afloat financially, nothing was left to steal or hock. “But after the last city assets are sold, what is next?” asks Hedges. “No one has an answer.” What once was “had been replaced,” reports Hedges, “in Scranton and across America by desperation, poverty, drift, a loss of identity, and a deep and crippling despair.”

“Marx was keenly aware of capitalism’s ability to innovate and adapt,” writes Hedges. “But he also knew that capitalist expansion was not eternally sustainable. And as we witness the denouement of capitalism, Karl Marx is vindicated as the system’s most prescient critic.” Hedges notes that Marx’s warning about the last stages of capitalism at its most predatory is an economy built on austerity and the scaffolding of debt expansion, what Marx called “fictitious money.”

“There comes a moment, Marx knew,” writes Hedges, “when there would be no new markets available and no new pools of people who could take on more debt. This is what happened with the subprime mortgage crisis. Once the banks could not conjure up new subprime borrowers, the scheme fell apart and the system crashed.”

Positing Marx’s definition of work as “wage slavery,” WORK opens with a quote from Durkheim’s On Suicide :

“When life is not worth living, everything becomes a pretext for ridding ourselves of it…There is a collective mood, as there is an individual mood, that inclines nations to sadness…For individuals are too closely involved in the life of society for it to be sick without their being affected. Its suffering inevitably becomes theirs.”

For Hedges, “Corporate capitalism has made war on the communal and the sacred, on those forces that allow us to connect and transcend our temporal condition to bond with others. These bonds will be reestablished or we will slip further into a world where death is more attractive than life.”

SADISM, writes Hedges, “has become an accepted part of mass culture. Fifty Shades of Gray , like the movie American Sniper , expresses the ethos of a predatory world where the weak and the vulnerable are objects to exploit. The powerful are narcissistic and violent demigods for whom pleasure comes at the expense of another.”

It is also a windfall for corporate capitalism’s investors.

“When you fight porn, you fight capitalism,” Professor Gail Dines, author of Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality , tells Hedges. “The venture capitalists, the banks, the credit card companies are all in this feeding chain. This is why you never see anti-porn stories. The media is implicated. It is financially in bed with these companies.”

Hedges sums up their conversation: “The violence and commodification of human beings for profit are the quintessential expressions of global capitalism. Our corporate masters are pimps.”

GAMBLING depicts a pathology in which predators abound in an industry that preys on the despair of people who are in financial distress, people who have a difficult time coping with life’s challenges. Casino capitalism, presented as economic development, has spread across the land. Gambling offers both a possible solution to financial difficulties and a drug to anesthetize the loser from the loser world around him.

With his withering emphasis on human greed, power, and cruelty, Hedges is often portrayed as Mr. Bad News. His latest investigation into pathologies of scale will certainly do nothing to diminish that reputation as he spotlights the detritus and decay delusional thinking creates. Furthermore, he doubles down on the scariest part of delusional thinking. “The most important existential issues that face us are not even articulated. And that is very dangerous.”

FREEDOM, the final chapter in America: The Farewell Tour , is a cri de cœur. Even though it is Mr. Bad News delivering the sermon, his choir of voices throughout the chapter confirms his humanitarian message with their stories of faith, hope and love.

Sybil and Josh Medlin, who come out of the Catholic Worker Movement, own and operate Burdock House in Anderson, Indiana, which Josh describes as “a house of hospitality” and “an alternative model to a culture that focuses on accumulating as much money as possible and on an economic structure based on competition and taking advantage of others.” Hedges deftly weaves into their narrative fabric Walker Percy’s classic American dystopian novel from 1971, Love in the Ruins . He accentuates the weave with literary and political commentary. As a reader and writer, I found this section of narrative journalism particular ly rich.

Adding to the weave are stories of a community organizer in Brooklyn, a trip to Standing Rock, militarized police forces, a sociologist specializing in nonviolent social change, T-Dubb-O and Rika Tyler, cofounders of Hands Up United, the privatized prison industry in carceral state and the plethora of guns and violence. Throughout their stories resistance rears its diverse head.

“Resistance,” Hedges writes, “is not, fundamentally, political. It is cultural and spiritual. It is about finding meaning and expression in the transcendent and the incongruities of life….Art celebrates the freedom and dignity of those who defy malignant evil. Victory is not inevitable, or at least not victory as defined by the powerful. Yet in every act of rebellion we are free.”

A culture of silence is a most dangerous game under Hedges’s spotlight because it is a gathering darkness of delusional, self-annihilating thinking. He notes that theologian Paul Tillich and philosopher Søren Kierkegaard regard “sin” as an estrangement from the forces that give us ultimate meaning and purpose in life.

“As long as we fold inward and embrace a hyper-individualism that is defined by selfishness and narcissism,” writes Hedges, “we will never overcome this estrangement. We will be separated from ourselves, from others and from the sacred.”

A graduate of Harvard Divinity School and an ordained Presbyterian minister as well as a Pulitzer Prize-winning former journalist for The New York Times who covered the horror of wars around the world for nearly twenty years, Hedges is a seasoned guide to existential, moral, and intellectual issues.

The final paragraph of FREEDOM’s cry and the conclusion to America: The Farewell Tour  resolves the author’s quest to debunk the delusions of human supremacy and promote the righteousness of human dignity:

“Resistance is not only about battling the forces of darkness. It is about becoming a complete human being. It is about overcoming estrangement. It is about our neighbor. It is about honoring the sacred. It is about dignity. It is about sacrifice. It is about courage. It is about freedom. It is about the capacity to love. Resistance must become our vocation.”

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Reviewer Robert Thomas

In the end, hope is born out of the tragic. In interviews and talks, Hedges often quotes from Vassily Grossman’s book, Life and Fate : “It’s not a battle between good and evil; it’s a battle between a great evil trying to crush human kindness. But if human kindness has not been crushed, even now, then evil will never win.”

Faith, for Hedges, is a truth he derived from Rev. Daniel Berrigan: the belief that the good draws to itself the good.

Mr. Bad News, it turns out, is deeply in love with humanity and what was once called reality. His message is not FEAR; it is WAKE UP.

EVM book reviewer and board member Robert R. Thomas can be reached at [email protected].

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Chris Hedges is a cultural critic and author who was a foreign correspondent for nearly two decades for The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor and National Public Radio. He reported from Latin American, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He was a member of the team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for The New York Times coverage of global terrorism, and he received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. Hedges, who holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School, is the author of the bestsellers American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle and was a National Book Critics Circle finalist for his book War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. He is a Senior Fellow at The Nation Institute and writes an online column for the web site Truthdig. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University and the University of Toronto.

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America: The Farewell Tour and American Pyschosis are well worth taking to heart — both to provide provocative perspective on what is happening and to spur us into action.

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Despite the feverish claims of Fox News and the Republican Party, America has not had much of a left wing in politics until recently. Although one might have gotten the impression from Republicans that the Democratic Party in 2016 was full of socialist fanatics headed by extremist Nancy Pelosi, the truth is since the presidency of Bill Clinton the Democratic Party has been centrist, while the Republicans have become increasingly right-wing. Both of these conditions powered the rise of Donald Trump, who was able to appeal to both Republicans and the many disaffected Democrats left behind by neoliberals like Bill and Hillary.

Lately though, a number of left-wing voices have been speaking up and they are getting a hearing. Bernie Sanders ran on a platform that included healthcare for all and free higher education. Newly elected congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez talks openly about being a democratic socialist. Sander’s attacks on the 1%  calls for a redistribution of wealth; Ocasio-Cortez champions a universal income. Since Trump’s election, a wide-ranging group calling themselves the Resistance has sprung into existence and found credence with a number of respected journalists and intellectuals, including: Sarah Kendzior, Amy Siskind, Jeffrey St. Clair, Paul Street, Zephyr Teachout, Tom Engelhardt, Rebecca Solnit, Chauncy DeVega, and Chris Hedges, to name a few. According to one survey, one third of Millennials have a positive view of socialism, a term that is often turned into a smear by the right wing to take down political candidates. The right finds it electorally useful to conflate socialism and communism. One of the many ways in which it plays on the sad ignorance of the American public to strong-arm its way forward.

Chris Hedges is a former writer for the New York Times and an eclectic, erudite thinker who readily backs up his views via convincing research from literature, television and film. In America: The Farewell Tour , he considers the fall of the American Empire, focusing on a number of problems that, when taken together, paint a bleak picture of our current era. In fact, Hedges sees denial everywhere — the sky falling around us but we carry on with our day-to-day lives entranced by distractions and entertainment. He has chapters that zero in on our disappearing manufacturing sector, our crumbling infrastructure, our drug problem, our loss of unions due to the corporate takeover of the economy and the government, our decadent surrender to porn and sadism, the rise of hate groups and hate crime, our national addiction to gambling, our oppressive, racist prison system, and the encroachment of a militarized surveillance state. Hedges does what most of our mainstream (profit-driven and non-profit) media fails to do: move from the specific to the general so we can take in the big picture. And it doesn’t look good.

He points to the insatiable greed among what he refers to as “the elite rich,” not the 1% that Bernie refers to, but the .01% that Piketty highlights. People like Sheldon Adelson and the Koch brothers, the representatives of our new corrupt Gilded Age. According to Hedges, this mega-rich group does not have our best interests at heart: they are all in for privatizing the United States. They are behind efforts to finance suppressing the vote to keep the riffraff out, breaking up unions, encouraging charter schools, along with (of course) cutting taxes and entitlements. They champion Ayn Rand — survival of the uber-fittest. They are convinced that, because they worked hard for their money, as did those who came before them, they deserve to be in control, in perpetuity. The tragic flaw with this immoral approach is that if people don’t make their way, it is their fault.

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American Psychosis , a fifteen-minute documentary written by Hedges, comes at the same critical issues from a slightly different angle. The idea here is that there is a calculated disconnect between the world that we’re presented with on television and the world we live in: we no longer know the difference between what is real and what is not. Television is filled with happy talk and capitalist propaganda that assures us that, if we have the money, we can buy products (cars, vacations, drugs) that will ensure our happiness. Meanwhile, people compete against each other in ‘Reality TV’ shows such as Survivor. These programs are designed to teach us that society is made up of two categories: the weak, who are humiliated losers, and cutthroat egomaniacs, who are the winners. This cartoon version of life sells consumer goods, but it is terrible for democracy.

What does Hedges want? He is a socialist who is “concerned with what is right and just.” He believes that “we must stand with all of the oppressed … this is a global fight against tyranny.” He calls for full employment, single payer healthcare, inexpensive mass transportation, a minimum wage of $15 an hour and/or a universal income of $500 per week. He wants to repeal the Patriot Act and dismantle mass incarceration, invest in renewable energy, and demilitarize the police. He thinks we should fight for free education; and he wants to bring our troops home. He demands that as Sarah Palin proclaimed to be her mission, “to take our country back.” Of course, she had a very different country in mind.

In American Psychosis , Hedges points to Iraq as the political catalyst that sent us off track because it encouraged the implementation of the surveillance state, the end of habeas corpus, and the advent of the use of torture by the Bush Administration. But the origin of our problems can also be traced to the ’60s — the assassinations of the Kennedys and MLK generated a national case of PTSD. Iraq and all our subsequent wars can be seen as attempts to finally win the Vietnam War, to be winners, not losers. In any case, we have obviously gone off the rails, from our foreign wars and the opioid crisis to hate crimes and the rising suicide rate among white males — culminating in the election of Donald Trump. If he is our ‘insane clown president’ (as journalist Matt Taibbi calls him), then we are his dutifully crazy audience. America: The Farewell Tour and American Pyschosis are well worth taking to heart — both to provide some provocative perspective on what is happening and to spur us into action.

Ed Meek is the author of Spy Pond and What We Love . A collection of his short stories, Luck , came out in May. WBUR’s Cognoscenti featured his poems during poetry month this year.

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A profound and provocative examination of America in crisis, where unemployment, deindustrialization, and a bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in an epidemic of diseases of despair - drug abuse, gambling, suicide, magical thinking, xenophobia, and a culture of sadism and hate.

America, says Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Chris Hedges, is convulsed by an array of pathologies that have arisen out of profound hopelessness, a bitter despair and a civil society that has ceased to function. The opioid crisis, the retreat into gambling to cope with economic distress, the pornification of culture, the rise of magical thinking, the celebration of sadism, hate, and plagues of suicides are the physical manifestations of a society that is being ravaged by corporate pillage and a failed democracy. As our society unravels, we also face global upheaval caused by catastrophic climate change. All these ills presage a frightening reconfiguration of the nation and the planet.

Donald Trump rode this disenchantment to power. In America: The Farewell Tour , Hedges argues that neither political party, now captured by corporate power, addresses the systemic problem. Until our corporate coup d’état is reversed these diseases will grow and ravage the country. A poignant cry reported from communities across the country, America: The Farewell Tour seeks to jolt us out of our complacency while there is still time.

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  • Audible release date 21 August 2018
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What are the must-see concerts of 2024?

With every new year comes artists that release new music. To help support the music, they typically announce tours that coincide with it, allowing fans to catch their favorite artists in different cities to perform the new tunes and the classics. 

While some artists are using the stage as a farewell, others are bringing fans into a new era. Here is a list of tours that are sure to be the hottest tickets in town.

Justin Timberlake

After a six-year hiatus since his previous album Man of the Woods, Justin Timberlake is back with his sixth studio album Everything I Thought I Was.  In support of his new album, Timberlake is hitting the road across North America with his "The Forget Tomorrow World Tour." The singer will start his trek on April 29th in Vancouver and end on July 9th in Kentucky. 

Megan Thee Stallion

Just two years since her previous album Traumazine , the world's resident hottie Megan Thee Stallion is heating up the charts with her latest single "Hiss." Upon the heels of her latest release, Megan interviewed with Good Morning America and revealed that her new album is on the way and she'll be embarking on the "Hot Girl Summer Tour."

2024 might be the year of Usher. After being crowned the king of Las Vegas due to his three-year sold-out residency at Caesar’s Palace and MGM Dolby Live, in late 2023 the NFL announced Usher as the halftime show performer for Super Bowl LVIII. Shortly after the halftime news, Usher announced he would be releasing his ninth album Coming Home, and embarking on a worldwide tour. By the way, Usher's halftime performance at SB LVIII was a rousing success .

Red Hot Chili Peppers

The Red Hot Chili Peppers are keeping their fans fed with live shows. "The Unlimited Love Tour" started back in 2022 and continued through 2023, and the band has continued to extend it this year with an additional 16 shows. This time around, they're bringing a few special guests along, including Kid Cudi, Ice Cube, Ken Carson, and more. The Red Hot Chili Peppers will wrap the tour up on July 30th in St. Louis.

In October 2023, reggaeton star Bad Bunny announced his upcoming "Most Wanted Tour" to help promote his latest album  Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana. Bad Bunny started his North America trek on February 21st, which will run through May 26th. When he made an Instagram post promoting the tour, he made it clear saying, “If you’re not a real fan, don’t come.” 

Janet Jackson

In 2023, Janet Jackson embarked on her sold-out "Together Again" tour with special guest Ludacris. Well, she’s bringing the tour back again, and this time she’s bringing Nelly along for the ride. Jackson and Nelly will trek across 35 cities including Chicago, New Orleans, Toronto, and Los Angeles. 

Adele’s Las Vegas residency began back in late 2022, and her final shows in Sin City will end this year. Although tickets on Ticketmaster for her shows are currently sold out, fans can still snag tickets on secondary platforms like Vivid Seats and StubHub. The "Weekends with Adele" residency will have its final show on June 15th. 

After reuniting at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, rock band Blink-182 embarked on a tour and plan to make it a second time around. With the release of their latest album  One More Time, it’s the perfect time to give their fans another chance to see them across stadiums and arenas worldwide. The tour is set to begin on June 20th in Orlando, Fla., and will end on August 30th in Glasgow, U.K. 

Drake and J. Cole

Thanks to the success of their 2023 collaboration “First Person Shooter,” Drake and J. Cole are hitting the road for their "It's All A Blur Tour—Big as the What?" tour. While Drake recently wrapped up his joint tour with 21 Savage, this time around, he and Cole are touring cities in smaller markets. The tour will begin on February 2nd in Tampa, Fla., and end on April 16th in Denver, Co. 

Foo Fighters

Summertime is always a great time to see your favorite bands. Rock band Foo Fighters are taking over stadiums across 10 cities, with opening act appearances from The Pretenders and The Hives. "The Everything or Nothing at All Tour" will kick off on July 17th in New York City and close out on August 18th in Seattle. 

While 2024 marks the end of Billy Joel’s long-running Madison Square Garden residency, he’s still taking his show on the road across several stadiums. For a few of the select shows, Joel will be joined by legendary acts Sting and Stevie Nicks. 

Nicki Minaj

After a five-year hiatus since her previous album Queen, Nicki Minaj returned in 2023 with her long-awaited album  Pink Friday 2. To help celebrate the new album, Minaj’s fan base (the Barbz) is in for a treat as she embarks on "The Pink Friday 2 World Tour" starting in March. Minaj is also slated to make appearances at festivals like Rolling Loud California and Dreamville. 

The Rolling Stones

Even after six decades since their first U.S. tour, The Rolling Stones are still in high demand for live shows. The rock band is set to hit the road on a 16-city tour to support their latest album Hackney Diamonds. The tour will run from April 28th through July 17th. 

The time has come to say farewell to Sum 41. Back in May 2023, the band announced they would be calling it quits as a group. After the release of their album Heaven :x: Hell, they announced their final shows as "Tour of the Setting Sun." Joined by special guest The Interrupters, the tour is set to take place across Asia, Europe, and North America. 

In December 2023, Dreamville artist Bas released his long-awaited fourth album We Only Talk About Real S—t   When We’re F—d   Up which featured several collaborations alongside J. Cole, Amaarae, Adekunle Gold, and more. To help support the album, Bas is taking his music on the road with a 23-city North America tour. Bas will begin the tour on March 3rd in Dallas and wrap up on April 9th in New York. 

Olivia Rodrigo

Just two years after her first headlining tour, rising star Olivia Rodrigo is embarking on her "GUTS World Tour." In celebration of her sophomore album Guts, she will take on 77 shows, joined by openers The Breeders, Chappell Roan, PinkPantheress, and Remi Wolf. Rodrigo began the tour on February 23rd in Thousand Palms and will wrap it up on August 17th in Inglewood. 

In support of his latest album Standing Room Only, country legend Tim McGraw is bringing his talent to the stage. The three-time Grammy winner’s tour will begin on March 14th in Jacksonville and end on June 27th in Phoenix. 

Tamia and Joe

For the R&B lovers, get ready to hear love ballads and smooth jams from two of the genre’s finest, Tamia and Joe. The tour kicked off on February 9th in Washington D.C. and will end on May 4th in St. Louis. 

Pop singer Tate McRae has been on a hot streak in 2023. From her hit song “Greedy,” to releasing her sophomore album Think Later, to an epic  Saturday Night Live performance, it seems like McRae is ready to take her career to another level. This year, she's set to embark on the "Think Later" 2024 tour, which kicks off April 17th in Dublin, Ireland. Joining McRae as her opening acts will be charlieonnafriday and Presley Regier. 

Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band postponed their 2023 tour after the singer had to treat a health matter, but the band is ready to take their show on the road this year. The tour is set to kick off on March 19th in Phoenix, Arizona, and other cities on the trek will include San Diego, Pittsburgh, Washington, D.C., and more. 

Green Day is headed out for a stadium tour and they’re bringing a few friends with them. The pop-punk trio will embark on the "Saviors Tour" that will include acts Rancid and The Linda Lindas, as well as The Smashing Pumpkins. In support of the band’s newest album Saviors, the North American leg of the tour will kick off on July 29th in Washington, D.C. 

Jewel and Melissa Etheridge

Country music fans, get ready to unite as Jewel and Melissa Etheridge co-headline a tour for the summer. The North America tour is set to kick off on July 11th in Montana and will end on October 5th in Arkansas. 

Mya Singleton is a freelance writer and photographer based in Los Angeles. Her work has also been featured on The Sports Fan Journal and AXS. Feel free to follow her talking all things music on Twitter @MyaMelody7 . 

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Elton John ’s touring life may have come to an end last year with his five-year, 330-concert worldwide Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour , but the work continues, including recording new music.

“He’s been working away,” says his husband and manager David Furnish . “I don’t think you’re going to have to wait too long [for new music]. I can’t say when but he’s making real progress. It was important for him when he came off the road to have a little bit of a breather and a break. But he’s always said he’s retiring from touring, but he’s not retiring from working.”

Joining the couple for the Oscar party hosting duties this year are Neil Patrick Harris, David Burtka and Tiffany Haddish. “We feel we can end AIDS by 2030 but we can’t take our foot off the accelerator,” Furnish said.

A performance by R&B-soul-rock trio Gabriels will headline the party following the Oscar telecast. John has been championing the group since being introduced to their music a couple of years ago. In June, John invited Gabriels’ lead singer Jacob Lusk to perform “Are You Ready for Love” with him at the Glastonbury Festival. “I’ve had crazy dreams,” Lusk told Variety . “I’ve dreamed of winning an Oscar, I’ve dreamed of winning a Grammy. I’ve had dreams of living in a $5 million mansion and driving a Maserati. I’ve never dreamed of singing with Elton John at Glastonbury — and in a pink tuxedo! I’ve never dreamed of seeing him play at Dodger Stadium and being asked to go backstage with his family. Never dreamed of that.”

Gabriels will perform a full set at the Academy Awards party with John joining them for a song or two. “Elton will perform with them,” Furnish said. “It’s hard to keep him off the stage.”

John’s post-second-knee-surgery plans include opening two stage musicals this year with “The Devil Wears Prada” launching in London and the Tammy Faye Baker bio-musical, “Tammy Faye,” premiering on Broadway.

It was recently announced that Tony nominee Vanessa Williams will star in “Prada” as Miranda Priestly , the role that Meryl Streep played in the movie adaptation of the bestselling novel. Later this month, “Tammy Faye” details, including its theater and dates, will be announced at an event in New York.

“I describe it as ‘Book of Mormon’ meets ‘Evita,’” Furnish said of “Tammy Faye.” “And we’re going to open it in an election year. It’s just the way it kind of worked out. But it’s really interesting given the non-constitutional role that religion is playing in politics today.”

The show includes a scene about the deal Ronald Reagan made to earn Jerry Falwell’s support in the 1980 presidential election. “You didn’t say ‘God’ in the White House until Reagan. Falwell said, ‘I’ll give you 30 million right wing Christian evangelicals voting Republican if you put God back in the White House,’” Furnish explained. “That was never part of the founding principles of America. America ran away from religious persecution to create a free society where people could be equal and free.”

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Universal’s Oppenheimer and Focus Features’ The Holdovers won the top theatrical prizes Sunday at the 74th Annual ACE Eddie Awards , presented by the American Cinema Editors at UCLA’s Royce Hall.

ACE president Kevin Tent, who presided over the event, won best edited feature film, comedy, for The Holdovers , while the drama feature award went to Oppenheimer editor Jennifer Lame.

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The team behind T aylor Swift: The Eras Tour — comprised of Dom Whitworth, Guy Harding, Hamish Lyons, Rupa Rathod, Ben Wainwright-Pearce and Reg Wrench — collected the award for best edited variety talk/sketch show or special.

In addition to the competitive categories, ACE handed out four honorary awards. Director John Waters was presented with the ACE Golden Eddie, which recognizes an artist for their distinguished achievement in film. Additionally, Kate Amend (an ACE Eddie winner for Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport ) and Walter Murch (a two-time ACE Eddie winner for The English Patient and Hemingway & Gelhorn , who has also received an Oscar for editing The English Patient and two sound Oscars for Apocalypse Now and The English Patient ) both received career achievement awards, and Stephen Lovejoy (an ACE Eddie winner for the Tales From the Crypt and the TV movie Our America ) received the ACE Heritage Award.

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BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (Drama, Theatrical)

Anatomy of a Fall  – Laurent Sénéchal Killers of the Flower Moon  – Thelma Schoonmaker, ACE Maestro  – Michelle Tesoro, ACE Oppenheimer  – Jennifer Lame, ACE (WINNER) Past Lives  – Keith Fraase

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BEST EDITED ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

Elemental  – Stephen Schaffer, ACE Nimona  – Randy Trager, ACE, Erin Crackel Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse  – Michael Andrews, ACE (WINNER) The Super Mario Bros. Movie  – Eric Osmond Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem  – Greg Levitan, ACE 

BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY (Theatrical)

20 Days in Mariupol  – Michelle Mizner American Symphony  – Sammy Dane, Matthew Heineman, Jim Hession, Fernando Villegas Joan Baez I Am a Noise  – Maeve O’Boyle Little Richard: I Am Everything  – Nyneve Minnear, Jake Hostetter Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie  – Michael Harte, ACE  (WINNER)

BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY (Non-Theatrical)

100 Foot Wave : “Jaws” – Alex Bayer, Alex Keipper, Quin O’Brien Albert Brooks: Defending My Life  – Bob Joyce Beckham : “The Kick” – Michael Harte, ACE Being Mary Tyler Moore  – Mariah Rehmet Escaping Twin Flames : “Up in Flames” – Martin Biehn, Kevin Hibbard, Inbal B. Lessner, ACE, Troy Takaki, ACE, Mimi Wilcox (WINNER)

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Frasier : “Blind Date” – Joseph Fulton How I Met Your Father : “Daddy” – Russell Griffin, ACE (WINNER) The Upshaws : “Off Beat” – Angel Gamboa Bryant 

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BEST EDITED DRAMA SERIES

Ahsoka : “Fallen Jedi” – Dana E. Glauberman, ACE The Last of Us : “Long, Long Time” – Timothy A. Good, ACE (WINNER) Slow Horses : “Strange Games” – Sam Williams  Succession : “Conner’s Wedding” – Bill Henry, ACE Succession : “With Open Eyes” – Ken Eluto, ACE

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Black Mirror:   Beyond the Sea  -Jon Harris Flamin’ Hot  – Kayla M. Emter, Liza D. Espinas Reality  – Jennifer Vecchiarello, Ron Dulin (WINNER)

BEST EDITED LIMITED SERIES 

Beef : “The Birds Don’t Sing, They Screech in Pain” – Harry Yoon, ACE, Laura Zempel, ACE (WINNER) Beef : “The Great Fabricator” – Nat Fuller Fargo : “The Paradox of Intermediate Transactions” – Christopher Nelson, ACE Fargo : “The Tragedy of the Commons” – Regis Kimble Lessons in Chemistry : “Introduction to Chemistry” – Géraud Brisson, ACE, Daniel Martens

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Couples Therapy : “Episode 310” – Delaney Lynch, Helen Kearns, ACE, Katrina Taylor (WINNER) Dancing with the Stars : “S32.E5” – Laurens Van Charante, Ben Bulatao, ACE, Fernanda Cardoso, Jessie Sock, Jon Oliver, Neal Acosta, Raiko Siems, Joe Headrick, Mike Bennaton Deadliest Catch : “Pain Level Ten” – Rob Butler, ACE, Isaiah Camp, ACE, Alexander Rubinow, ACE, Josh Stockero

BEST EDITED VARIETY TALK/SKETCH SHOW OR SPECIAL EVENT

BEST EDITED ANIMATED SERIES

Blue Eye Samurai : “The Tale of the Ronin and The Bride” – Yuka Shirasuna (WINNER) Bob’s Burgers : “Amelia” – Jeremy Reuben, ACE, Stephanie Earley Scott Pilgrim Takes Off : “Ramona Rents a Video” – Keisuke Yanagi

ANNE V. COATES AWARD FOR STUDENT EDITING

Isaiah Clarke – Spanish Springs High School Jamie Diaz – California State University Los Angeles Ariel Emma Martin – Chapman University (WINNER)

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About the author.

Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East and the Balkans for fifteen years for  The New York Times.  He previously worked overseas for  The Dallas Morning News ,  The Christian Science Monitor , and NPR. He is host of the Emmy Award­–nominated RT America show  On Contact.  Hedges, who holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard University, is the author of numerous books, and was a National Book Critics Circle finalist for  War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning . He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University, and the University of Toronto. He has taught college credit courses through Rutgers University in the New Jersey prison system since 2013.

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  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster (August 27, 2019)
  • Length: 400 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781501152689

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“Searing portraits . . . of individuals victimized in six arenas that [Hedges] explores in detail: drug addiction, pornography, gambling, the criminal justice system, extremist groups and the search for meaningful, well-paid work. He takes the reader inside these issues in ways that are often telling and memorable.”

– Thomas Carothers, The Washington Post

“Chris Hedges wants us to face realities. Our society is unraveling, institutionally and structurally, and is being replaced by the corporate state of merging big business and government. Commercialism overwhelms civic values, impoverishes its subjects, and reaches into childhoods bypassing parental authority. Poverty, addiction, gambling, and hopelessness spread like epidemics. Only we the people can reverse the disintegration of democracy by plutocracy. In America: The Farewell Tour, Chris Hedges depicts the horrifying truths on the ground from which resistance rises to jolt us into an active, realizable culture of reconstruction.”

– Ralph Nader

"An exceedingly dark, passionate, and provocative book, certain to arouse controversy but offering a point of view that needs to be heard."

“Chris Hedges is perhaps today’s most important public intellectual, and America: the Farewell Tour is perhaps his most important book. If we as a society are able to move past our current ‘sickness unto death,’ as Kierkegaard put it, it will be in great measure thanks to books like this one.”

– Derrick Jensen, author of A Language Older Than Words and The Culture of Make Believe

“Hedges writes a requiem for the American dream. . . . [A] fiery sermon that weighs the nation and finds it wanting.”

– Kirkus Reviews

“Hedges’s latest critique of late-stage capitalist America is forceful and direct."

– Publishers Weekly

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Due to overwhelming demand, the Eagles have announced a second date at Footprint Center on the Long Goodbye Tour.

The new date is Saturday, Jan. 20 , 2024.

The legendary rockers previously announced a Friday, Jan. 19, date at Footprint Center.

The Eagles’ long-time contemporaries and fellow Hall of Famers Steely Dan will join the Eagles on these dates, commemorating their own 50-plus year career.

During the Long Goodbye Tour, the Eagles — Don Henley, Joe Walsh, Timothy B. Schmit with Vince Gill and Deacon Frey — will perform as many shows in each market as the audience demands. The tour is expected to continue into 2025. 

Over more than 50 years of touring, the Eagles have performed more than 1,000 concerts around the world, accounting for more than 15 million tickets. Eagles’ tours have consistently ranked in the Top 10 of both concert industry publications, Billboard and Pollstar. 

The Eagles last played Phoenix in March 2023 when the Hotel California Tour played Footprint Center.

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How to get tickets to the 2024 Eagles tour in Phoenix

Tickets to the Eagles' Jan. 19 date at Footprint Center are on sale now at ticketmaster.com .

Tickets for the Jan. 20 date will go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 10.

Presales for the added show run from 10 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 8, through close of business on Thursday, Nov. 9.

Eagles travel packages to Phoenix and Chicago

For the first time, Eagles fans traveling to Phoenix and Chicago will be able to purchase travel packages that include tickets and hotel accommodations. Learn more at travel.ticketmaster.com . 

New dates on the Eagles farewell tour

These are the new 2024 dates on the Eagles Long Goodbye Tour:

Friday, Jan. 19 — Footprint Center in Phoenix.

Friday, Feb. 2 — Moody Center in Austin, Texas.

Friday, Feb. 16 — Toyota Center in Houston.

Friday, March 1 — Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida.

Friday, March 8 — United Center in Chicago.

Wednesday March 13 — Scotiabank Arena in Toronto.

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Aventura extends 2024 ‘Cerrando Ciclos Tour.’ Get tickets today

The Kings of Bachata are conquering North America this spring.

After announcing their nationwide 20-concert farewell ‘Cerrando Ciclos Tour,’ Romeo Santos and Aventura added an additional 12 shows to their calendar.

That means four (!) more goodbye gigs in New York and New Jersey this spring.

First up, the “Obsession” quartet will stop into New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, May 22 and now Thursday, May 23 as well.

Next, they hit Brooklyn for their recently announced Barclays Center concert on Thursday, May 30 .

After that, the four Santoses swing into Newark’s Prudential Center on Sunday, June 2 and Monday, June 3 , which was just tacked onto the itinerary.

They’ll close the NY/NJ cycle at Elmont, NY’s UBS Arena on Wednesday, June 5 , for a show that they also added at the last minute.

As of now, tickets are available for all 32 ‘Cerrando Ciclos Tour’ concerts.

Want to find the show that best suits your schedule to see Romeo, Henry, Lenny and Max one last time?

We’ve got everything you need to know and more about Aventura’s 2024 tour below.

A complete calendar including all tour dates, venues and links to tickets can be found below.

Note: All recently added tour dates are in bold.

In 2021, Aventura wrapped up their 2019-20 ‘Inmortal Tour’ that was postponed due to COVID-19.

Based on our findings, here’s what the group played at Wrigley Field that summer, courtesy of  Set List FM .

01.) “El desprecio”

02.) “Por un segundo”

03.) “La boda”

04.) “Los infieles”

05.) “El malo”

06.) “Mi corazoncito”

07.) “Un beso”

08.) “Llorar”

09.) “Lágrimas” (José José cover)

10.) “Volví”

11.) “Amor de madre”

12.) “Obsesión”

13.) “Inmortal”

The four Santoses will be on the road for the ‘Cerrando Ciclos Tour.’

As a refresher, they are:

Anthony “Romeo” Santos   lead vocals, backing vocals, songwriter, composer, producer  (1994-2011, 2016, 2019–2024)

Henry Santos   lead vocals, backing vocals, songwriter, composer, producer  (1994-2011, 2016, 2019–2024)

Lenny Santos   lead guitar, rhythm guitar, electric guitar, arranger, producer, band director  (1994-2011, 2016, 2019–2024)

Max Santos   bass guitar, rapper  (1994-2011, 2016, 2019–2024)

Many iconic acts you know and love will be out and about this year.

Here are just five stars you won’t want to miss live these next few months.

•  Luis Miguel

•  Bad Bunny

•  Chayanne

•  Don Omar

•  Los Bukis

Who else is touring these next few months? Check out our list of the  50 biggest concert tours in 2024 here  to find out.

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    The Kings of Bachata are conquering North America this spring. After announcing their nationwide 20-concert farewell 'Cerrando Ciclos Tour,' Romeo Santos and Aventura added an additional 12 ...

  29. Comedian Celeste Barber Sets Dates For North American 'Backup Dancer Tour'

    Tickets for the tour will be available starting with an artist presale beginning Wednesday, Feb. 28 at 10 a.m. local time. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general on ...