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Tom Engelhardt, who runs the Nation Institute's Tomdispatch.com ("a regular antidote to the mainstream media"), is the co-founder of the American Empire Project and, most recently, the author of Mission Unaccomplished: Tomdispatch Interviews with American Iconoclasts and Dissenters (Nation Books), the first collection of Tomdispatch interviews.
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Thursday, December 4, 2025
Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Victory (or Defeat?) Gardens in the Age of Trump Do you have a silver card? I do. I live in New London, Connecticut, and while I don't get EBT (Electronic Benefit Transfers) anymore, I still carry the card as a talisman. Its nestled in my wallet right behind my drivers license. It reminds me that there was a time when I needed help and was able to get it. Its the kind of reminder we all need and one that's in ever shorter supply these days[...]
Thursday, December 4, 2025Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Victory (or Defeat?) Gardens in the Age of Trump Do you have a silver card? I do. I live in New London, Connecticut, and while I don't get EBT (Electronic Benefit Transfers) anymore, I still carry the card as a talisman. Its nestled in my wallet right behind my drivers license. It reminds me that there was a time when I needed help and was able to get it. Its the kind of reminder we all need and one that's in ever shorter supply these days[...]
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Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Tomgram: William Astore, A Thermonuclear Hair Trigger Its been 20 years since I retired from the Air Force and 40 years since I first entered Cheyenne Mountain, Americas nuclear redoubt at the southern end of the Front Range that includes Pikes Peak in Colorado. So it was with some nostalgia that I read a recent memo from General Kenneth Wilsbach, the new Chief of Staff of the Air Force (CSAF)[...]
Tuesday, December 2, 2025Tomgram: William Astore, A Thermonuclear Hair Trigger Its been 20 years since I retired from the Air Force and 40 years since I first entered Cheyenne Mountain, Americas nuclear redoubt at the southern end of the Front Range that includes Pikes Peak in Colorado. So it was with some nostalgia that I read a recent memo from General Kenneth Wilsbach, the new Chief of Staff of the Air Force (CSAF)[...]
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Monday, December 1, 2025
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, The Russification of America Its strange so many years later, in the United States of America, to feel as if Im living in a country threatening to become like the Russia of Vladimir Putin that I spent years experiencing earlier in this century.To start, let me tell you a little something about that[...]
Monday, December 1, 2025Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, The Russification of America Its strange so many years later, in the United States of America, to feel as if Im living in a country threatening to become like the Russia of Vladimir Putin that I spent years experiencing earlier in this century.To start, let me tell you a little something about that[...]
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Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Energy and Empire from the Fifteenth Century to Late Tomorrow Night At the dawning of the British Empire in 1818, the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley penned a memorable sonnet freighted with foreboding about the inevitable decline of all empires, whether in ancient Egypt or then-modern Britain[...]
Tuesday, November 25, 2025Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Energy and Empire from the Fifteenth Century to Late Tomorrow Night At the dawning of the British Empire in 1818, the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley penned a memorable sonnet freighted with foreboding about the inevitable decline of all empires, whether in ancient Egypt or then-modern Britain[...]
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Monday, November 24, 2025
Tomgram: Juan Cole, The War of the AI Moguls on Climate Science In late October, Hurricane Melissa (that should have been called Godzilla) battered western Jamaica with 185-mile-an-hour winds. It tossed the roofs of buildings about like splintering javelins, demolished municipal buildings and hospitals, snapped telephone poles like matchsticks, flattened crops, and dumped torrential floodwaters everywhere, leaving $8 billion in damage[...]
Monday, November 24, 2025Tomgram: Juan Cole, The War of the AI Moguls on Climate Science In late October, Hurricane Melissa (that should have been called Godzilla) battered western Jamaica with 185-mile-an-hour winds. It tossed the roofs of buildings about like splintering javelins, demolished municipal buildings and hospitals, snapped telephone poles like matchsticks, flattened crops, and dumped torrential floodwaters everywhere, leaving $8 billion in damage[...]
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Thursday, November 20, 2025
Tomgram: Mattea Kramer, Trumps Most Original Idea Ever Rooting out terrorism and antisemitism was the supposed reason that plainclothed ICE agents arrested doctoral student Rmeysa ztrk on a street in Somerville, Massachusetts, after she coauthored an op-ed calling on Tufts University to divest from companies with ties to Israel due to the killing and starvation of Palestinian civilians[...]
Thursday, November 20, 2025Tomgram: Mattea Kramer, Trumps Most Original Idea Ever Rooting out terrorism and antisemitism was the supposed reason that plainclothed ICE agents arrested doctoral student Rmeysa ztrk on a street in Somerville, Massachusetts, after she coauthored an op-ed calling on Tufts University to divest from companies with ties to Israel due to the killing and starvation of Palestinian civilians[...]
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Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Tomgram: Engelhardt, A President Delivering Us to World's End? When I began TomDispatch in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and the invasion of Afghanistan, believe me, the world did not look good. But I guarantee you one thing: if you had told me then that, almost a quarter of a century later, the president of the United States would be Donald J. Trump (and had explained to me just who he was), I would have thought you an idiot first class or totally mad![...]
Tuesday, November 18, 2025Tomgram: Engelhardt, A President Delivering Us to World's End? When I began TomDispatch in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and the invasion of Afghanistan, believe me, the world did not look good. But I guarantee you one thing: if you had told me then that, almost a quarter of a century later, the president of the United States would be Donald J. Trump (and had explained to me just who he was), I would have thought you an idiot first class or totally mad![...]
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Monday, November 17, 2025
Tomgram: William D. Hartung and Ashley Gate, A New Gold(en) Mine for Arms Contractors Kathryn Bigelow's new nuclear thriller, A House of Dynamite, has been criticized by some experts for being unrealistic, most notably because it portrays an unlikely scenario in which an adversary chooses to attack the United States with just a single nuclear-armed missile[...]
Monday, November 17, 2025Tomgram: William D. Hartung and Ashley Gate, A New Gold(en) Mine for Arms Contractors Kathryn Bigelow's new nuclear thriller, A House of Dynamite, has been criticized by some experts for being unrealistic, most notably because it portrays an unlikely scenario in which an adversary chooses to attack the United States with just a single nuclear-armed missile[...]
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Thursday, November 13, 2025
Tomgram: Greg Grandin, A Murder Incorporated Tale of the Drug Wars Today, Donald Trump presides over his own Murder Incorporated, less a government than a death squad. Many brushed off his proclamation early in his second term that the Gulf of Mexico would henceforth be called the Gulf of America as a foolish, yet harmless, show of dominance. Now, however, hes created an ongoing bloodbath in the adjacent Caribbean Sea[...]
Thursday, November 13, 2025Tomgram: Greg Grandin, A Murder Incorporated Tale of the Drug Wars Today, Donald Trump presides over his own Murder Incorporated, less a government than a death squad. Many brushed off his proclamation early in his second term that the Gulf of Mexico would henceforth be called the Gulf of America as a foolish, yet harmless, show of dominance. Now, however, hes created an ongoing bloodbath in the adjacent Caribbean Sea[...]
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Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Tomgram: Helen Benedict, Teaching at Donald Trump's Version of Columbia University On September 17, 2025, one month before I was to teach my annual social justice reporting class at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, the campus lowered its flag to half-mast in honor of far-right pontificator Charlie Kirk[...]
Tuesday, November 11, 2025Tomgram: Helen Benedict, Teaching at Donald Trump's Version of Columbia University On September 17, 2025, one month before I was to teach my annual social justice reporting class at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, the campus lowered its flag to half-mast in honor of far-right pontificator Charlie Kirk[...]
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Monday, November 10, 2025
Tomgram: Kelly Denton-Borhaug, Approaching Veterans Day Its been a while since Ive written for TomDispatch and there's a reason for that.About 16 months ago, I experienced a catastrophic car crash. An SUV veered across the double yellow line of the highway I was traveling on and hit my little Chevy Spark head-on on the drivers side. Ive been told that Im lucky to be alive. I was left with multiple injuries and have been on the slow road to recovery[...]
Monday, November 10, 2025Tomgram: Kelly Denton-Borhaug, Approaching Veterans Day Its been a while since Ive written for TomDispatch and there's a reason for that.About 16 months ago, I experienced a catastrophic car crash. An SUV veered across the double yellow line of the highway I was traveling on and hit my little Chevy Spark head-on on the drivers side. Ive been told that Im lucky to be alive. I was left with multiple injuries and have been on the slow road to recovery[...]
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Thursday, November 6, 2025
Tomgram: Beverly Gologorsky, How Dare Trump Tarnish Our Golden Years! Aging, like time, ticks on, day by hour by day. Then, suddenly, its there, mocking our inability to sweep aside, should we even want to, this iron curtain. For seniors, the concept of time itself differs from that of younger people, because the future is in the everyday[...]
Thursday, November 6, 2025Tomgram: Beverly Gologorsky, How Dare Trump Tarnish Our Golden Years! Aging, like time, ticks on, day by hour by day. Then, suddenly, its there, mocking our inability to sweep aside, should we even want to, this iron curtain. For seniors, the concept of time itself differs from that of younger people, because the future is in the everyday[...]
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Tuesday, November 4, 2025
Tomgram: John Feffer, The Venn Diagram of Trumps Vendettas Donald Trump hates Antifa. He hates late-night TV hosts, Democratic-controlled cities, and anyone who has ever challenged him in court. As of October, he officially hates the Nobel committee for not giving him a peace prize, despite his efforts to strong-arm its members into voting for him[...]
Tuesday, November 4, 2025Tomgram: John Feffer, The Venn Diagram of Trumps Vendettas Donald Trump hates Antifa. He hates late-night TV hosts, Democratic-controlled cities, and anyone who has ever challenged him in court. As of October, he officially hates the Nobel committee for not giving him a peace prize, despite his efforts to strong-arm its members into voting for him[...]
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Sunday, November 2, 2025
Tomgram: Douglas H. White, The Mamdani Experience and the Future of America On Tuesday, New York, the largest city in America, has an opportunity to elect Zohran Mamdani, a young man, a democratic socialist, an immigrant (at age seven), a Muslim, a progressive, and someone hated by Donald Trump. And no wonder, since hes the antithesis of Trump. No wonder he brings fear to the reactionary forces largely represented by the president and his supporters[...]
Sunday, November 2, 2025Tomgram: Douglas H. White, The Mamdani Experience and the Future of America On Tuesday, New York, the largest city in America, has an opportunity to elect Zohran Mamdani, a young man, a democratic socialist, an immigrant (at age seven), a Muslim, a progressive, and someone hated by Donald Trump. And no wonder, since hes the antithesis of Trump. No wonder he brings fear to the reactionary forces largely represented by the president and his supporters[...]
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Thursday, October 30, 2025
Tomgram: Eric Ross, An Exit Off The Trumpian Highway to Collective Suicide? More than a century ago, from a Berlin prison cell where she was confined for her uncompromising opposition to the slaughter of the First World War, Rosa Luxemburg warned, Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism. Her diagnosis remains no less salient today[...]
Thursday, October 30, 2025Tomgram: Eric Ross, An Exit Off The Trumpian Highway to Collective Suicide? More than a century ago, from a Berlin prison cell where she was confined for her uncompromising opposition to the slaughter of the First World War, Rosa Luxemburg warned, Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism. Her diagnosis remains no less salient today[...]
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Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Strategic Incompetence in the Age of Trump I first heard the expression strategic incompetence in El Salvador in December 1993. Along with my partner and two friends, Id been recruited to do some electoral training there. We were working with the Farabundo Mart National Liberation Front, or FMLN, a coalition of leftist parties that had led a long-running guerrilla war against a series of U.S.-backed autocratic governments[...]
Tuesday, October 28, 2025Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Strategic Incompetence in the Age of Trump I first heard the expression strategic incompetence in El Salvador in December 1993. Along with my partner and two friends, Id been recruited to do some electoral training there. We were working with the Farabundo Mart National Liberation Front, or FMLN, a coalition of leftist parties that had led a long-running guerrilla war against a series of U.S.-backed autocratic governments[...]
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Monday, October 27, 2025
Tomgram: No Kings, the Second Time Around Yes, in the ever more ominously unsettled (dis-)United States of Donald J. Trump, I recently went to the hate America rally in New York City .Or at least that's what Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson insisted it was[...]
Monday, October 27, 2025Tomgram: No Kings, the Second Time Around Yes, in the ever more ominously unsettled (dis-)United States of Donald J. Trump, I recently went to the hate America rally in New York City .Or at least that's what Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson insisted it was[...]
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Thursday, October 23, 2025
Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, Jules Feiffer Taught Us to Fail Up Its been more than nine months now since my friend, famed cartoonist Jules Feiffer, died, a week before his 96th birthday after continually warning me that the evil spirit that had descended on this country was leaving him frightened and dispirited[...]
Thursday, October 23, 2025Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, Jules Feiffer Taught Us to Fail Up Its been more than nine months now since my friend, famed cartoonist Jules Feiffer, died, a week before his 96th birthday after continually warning me that the evil spirit that had descended on this country was leaving him frightened and dispirited[...]
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Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Tomgram: Norman Solomon, Big Problems Need Big Solutions The human condition includes a vast array of unavoidable misfortunes. But what about the preventable ones? Shouldn't the United States provide for the basic needs of its people? Such questions get distinctly short shrift in the dominant political narratives. When someone cant make ends meet and suffers dire consequences, the mainstream default is to see a failing individual rather than a failing system[...]
Tuesday, October 21, 2025Tomgram: Norman Solomon, Big Problems Need Big Solutions The human condition includes a vast array of unavoidable misfortunes. But what about the preventable ones? Shouldn't the United States provide for the basic needs of its people? Such questions get distinctly short shrift in the dominant political narratives. When someone cant make ends meet and suffers dire consequences, the mainstream default is to see a failing individual rather than a failing system[...]
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Monday, October 20, 2025
Tomgram: Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner, Who Should Live and Who Should Die? The Senate Finance Committee hearing with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was explosive. The Secretary of Health and Human Services was accused of reckless disregard for science and the truth, and senators from both parties were openly hostile as they questioned him extensively on his vaccine policies, as well as the firing of scientific advisory board members and agency heads[...]
Monday, October 20, 2025Tomgram: Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner, Who Should Live and Who Should Die? The Senate Finance Committee hearing with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was explosive. The Secretary of Health and Human Services was accused of reckless disregard for science and the truth, and senators from both parties were openly hostile as they questioned him extensively on his vaccine policies, as well as the firing of scientific advisory board members and agency heads[...]
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