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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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Tuesday, January 6, 2026
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, The "Quiet, Piggy" Presidency "Quiet, Piggy." The president was intent on silencing Catherine Lucey. The Bloomberg reporter had provoked him with a question about the release of the Epstein files. His insult caught the public's attention. But Trump's tongue-lashing lexicon against women has a long history[...]
Tuesday, January 6, 2026Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, The "Quiet, Piggy" Presidency "Quiet, Piggy." The president was intent on silencing Catherine Lucey. The Bloomberg reporter had provoked him with a question about the release of the Epstein files. His insult caught the public's attention. But Trump's tongue-lashing lexicon against women has a long history[...]
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Monday, January 5, 2026
Tomgram: Engelhardt, On Going Down, Down, Down As 2026 begins, what a strange planet we find ourselves on. The two great empires of my youth, the Soviet Union (now Russia) and my own country, are clearly experiencing some version of imperial decline, even if Vladimir Putin is acting otherwise in Ukraine (as is Donald Trump in his own strange fashion in the Caribbean Sea and Venezuela)[...]
Monday, January 5, 2026Tomgram: Engelhardt, On Going Down, Down, Down As 2026 begins, what a strange planet we find ourselves on. The two great empires of my youth, the Soviet Union (now Russia) and my own country, are clearly experiencing some version of imperial decline, even if Vladimir Putin is acting otherwise in Ukraine (as is Donald Trump in his own strange fashion in the Caribbean Sea and Venezuela)[...]
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Tuesday, December 23, 2025
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, The Future According to Trump For writers, the future has long been a tricky terrain. While the past can prove unsettling and the present uncomfortable, the future seems to free the mind from reality's restraints and let the imagination soar. Yet it has also proven full of political pitfalls[...]
Tuesday, December 23, 2025Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, The Future According to Trump For writers, the future has long been a tricky terrain. While the past can prove unsettling and the present uncomfortable, the future seems to free the mind from reality's restraints and let the imagination soar. Yet it has also proven full of political pitfalls[...]
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Monday, December 22, 2025
William D. Hartung, Talking Diplomacy, Promoting Conflict Earlier this month, the Trump administration released its new National Security Strategy, or NSS. Normally, such documents are poor predictors of what's likely to happen in the real world. They are more like branding tools that communicate the attitudes of a given administration while rarely offering a detailed or accurate picture of its likely policies[...]
Monday, December 22, 2025William D. Hartung, Talking Diplomacy, Promoting Conflict Earlier this month, the Trump administration released its new National Security Strategy, or NSS. Normally, such documents are poor predictors of what's likely to happen in the real world. They are more like branding tools that communicate the attitudes of a given administration while rarely offering a detailed or accurate picture of its likely policies[...]
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Thursday, December 18, 2025
Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, Has Sports Been Trumped? In the year I was born, 1938, the White Christian males who ruled the sports world considered their various games and pastimes as definers of righteousness, crucibles of character, and a preparation for dominance in business and war. Anyone who played but didn't look like them was an interloper, clearly operating with some kind of performance enhancers[...]
Thursday, December 18, 2025Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, Has Sports Been Trumped? In the year I was born, 1938, the White Christian males who ruled the sports world considered their various games and pastimes as definers of righteousness, crucibles of character, and a preparation for dominance in business and war. Anyone who played but didn't look like them was an interloper, clearly operating with some kind of performance enhancers[...]
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Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Tomgram: Nan Levinson, Legal Schmegal Any story about resistance within the military must begin by recognizing that it's not an easy thing to do. Apparently, that's true even for a much-decorated retired Navy commander, former astronaut, and sitting United States senator. I'm talking about Arizona Senator Mark Kelly[...]
Wednesday, December 17, 2025Tomgram: Nan Levinson, Legal Schmegal Any story about resistance within the military must begin by recognizing that it's not an easy thing to do. Apparently, that's true even for a much-decorated retired Navy commander, former astronaut, and sitting United States senator. I'm talking about Arizona Senator Mark Kelly[...]
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Monday, December 15, 2025
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Sudan, the Forgotten Genocide Follow a line south and west from the Gaza Strip, continue through Egypt, and you'll end up in another place where a genocide is in progress. Its one we don't hear much about in the United States, probably because its happening in an African nation, one of those places Donald Trump refers to as shithole countries[...]
Monday, December 15, 2025Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Sudan, the Forgotten Genocide Follow a line south and west from the Gaza Strip, continue through Egypt, and you'll end up in another place where a genocide is in progress. Its one we don't hear much about in the United States, probably because its happening in an African nation, one of those places Donald Trump refers to as shithole countries[...]
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Thursday, December 11, 2025
Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, The Bible Condemns Rich Predators, Not Poor Trans Lovers As more of the Epstein files are released, reminding us of Donald Trumps close association with Jeffrey Epstein and the young people he abused and trafficked, as well as the presidents ongoing array of misogynist insults and actions (like calling journalist Catherine Lucey piggy and name-calling Marjorie Taylor Greene to the point where she jumped ship), what keeps coming to my mind are the sexual exploits of authoritarians...
Thursday, December 11, 2025Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, The Bible Condemns Rich Predators, Not Poor Trans Lovers As more of the Epstein files are released, reminding us of Donald Trumps close association with Jeffrey Epstein and the young people he abused and trafficked, as well as the presidents ongoing array of misogynist insults and actions (like calling journalist Catherine Lucey piggy and name-calling Marjorie Taylor Greene to the point where she jumped ship), what keeps coming to my mind are the sexual exploits of authoritarians...
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Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Tomgram: Engelhardt, No Ducking and Covering for Us What self-destructive creatures we turn out to be! Can you even believe it? Only recently, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP30, met in Brazil for two weeks. While 194 countries were represented there, the historically greatest fossil-fuelizer on the planet, Donald Trumps United States, was, of course, missing in action (for the first time in 30 years)[...]
Tuesday, December 9, 2025Tomgram: Engelhardt, No Ducking and Covering for Us What self-destructive creatures we turn out to be! Can you even believe it? Only recently, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP30, met in Brazil for two weeks. While 194 countries were represented there, the historically greatest fossil-fuelizer on the planet, Donald Trumps United States, was, of course, missing in action (for the first time in 30 years)[...]
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Monday, December 8, 2025
Tomgram: Eric Ross, Venezuela and the Long Shadow of the U.S. Empire in Latin America In recent months, the Trump administration has escalated a decades-long campaign against the Venezuelan government and people. The renewed, intensifying threats of regime change, justified through false or inflated claims that Nicols Maduro, its president, is directing narco-terrorism against the United States, serve as a convenient pretext for deeper and more direct intervention[...]
Monday, December 8, 2025Tomgram: Eric Ross, Venezuela and the Long Shadow of the U.S. Empire in Latin America In recent months, the Trump administration has escalated a decades-long campaign against the Venezuelan government and people. The renewed, intensifying threats of regime change, justified through false or inflated claims that Nicols Maduro, its president, is directing narco-terrorism against the United States, serve as a convenient pretext for deeper and more direct intervention[...]
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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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