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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, March 5, 2026
Tomgram: Maha Hilal, The "Legality" of Shooting Ships Out of the Water In response to his sentencing following his conviction on 34 felonies in May 2024, President Trump stated that he had "won the election in a massive landslide, and the people of this country understand what's gone on. This has been a weaponization of government[...]"
Thursday, March 5, 2026Tomgram: Maha Hilal, The "Legality" of Shooting Ships Out of the Water In response to his sentencing following his conviction on 34 felonies in May 2024, President Trump stated that he had "won the election in a massive landslide, and the people of this country understand what's gone on. This has been a weaponization of government[...]"
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Tuesday, March 3, 2026
Tomgram: Beverly Gologorsky, Power, What Is It? Power is felt, attributed, invisible, all-important, descriptive, without shape, and so much more. There is personal power, governmental power, and the collective power of the people. Power can be bought, sold, traded, bestowed, even rescinded. It can be good or bad, positive or corrupt.However you might wish to describe power, one thing is clear: how it's used depends on the society in which we live[...]
Tuesday, March 3, 2026Tomgram: Beverly Gologorsky, Power, What Is It? Power is felt, attributed, invisible, all-important, descriptive, without shape, and so much more. There is personal power, governmental power, and the collective power of the people. Power can be bought, sold, traded, bestowed, even rescinded. It can be good or bad, positive or corrupt.However you might wish to describe power, one thing is clear: how it's used depends on the society in which we live[...]
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Monday, March 2, 2026
Tomgram: Engelhardt, The President from Hell on One Hell of a Planet I grew up with a vision of a possible instant apocalypse, inspired (if, under the circumstances, such a word can even be used) by the nuclear obliteration of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II. It could happen at any moment, even if you were "ducking and covering" under your school desk, as I did in those years. And I was hardly alone[...]
Monday, March 2, 2026Tomgram: Engelhardt, The President from Hell on One Hell of a Planet I grew up with a vision of a possible instant apocalypse, inspired (if, under the circumstances, such a word can even be used) by the nuclear obliteration of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II. It could happen at any moment, even if you were "ducking and covering" under your school desk, as I did in those years. And I was hardly alone[...]
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Friday, February 27, 2026
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Accelerating American (and Planetary) Decline Some tales can cross cultures, continents, and even centuries to arrive in our own era with their timeless truths pretty much intact. That's particularly so for the immortal story of "an appointment in Samarra." It first appeared in the fifth century in the Babylonian Talmud, that ancient repository of Jewish rabbinical wisdom[...]
Friday, February 27, 2026Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Accelerating American (and Planetary) Decline Some tales can cross cultures, continents, and even centuries to arrive in our own era with their timeless truths pretty much intact. That's particularly so for the immortal story of "an appointment in Samarra." It first appeared in the fifth century in the Babylonian Talmud, that ancient repository of Jewish rabbinical wisdom[...]
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Friday, February 27, 2026
Tomgram: Nick Turse, Donald Trump's Death Cards Last month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers pulled over several cars in Eagle County, Colorado.They took the people away in handcuffs, according to a witness, and left the cars idling at the side of the road.When family members of the disappeared immigrants arrived, there was no sign of their loved ones. What they found instead were customized ace of spades playing cards that read "ICE Denver Field Office[...]"
Friday, February 27, 2026Tomgram: Nick Turse, Donald Trump's Death Cards Last month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers pulled over several cars in Eagle County, Colorado.They took the people away in handcuffs, according to a witness, and left the cars idling at the side of the road.When family members of the disappeared immigrants arrived, there was no sign of their loved ones. What they found instead were customized ace of spades playing cards that read "ICE Denver Field Office[...]"
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Friday, February 27, 2026
Tomgram: Lipsyte, Robert Lipsyte Is Waiting for ICE In early February, the barbarians reached my gate. There could be no more comfort or denial here on this island where I live. The masked thugs were roving through a town just across the water, a short ferry ride away, harassing and arresting long-time residents[...]
Friday, February 27, 2026Tomgram: Lipsyte, Robert Lipsyte Is Waiting for ICE In early February, the barbarians reached my gate. There could be no more comfort or denial here on this island where I live. The masked thugs were roving through a town just across the water, a short ferry ride away, harassing and arresting long-time residents[...]
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Thursday, February 19, 2026
Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Working for a Nuclear-Free Future (Especially Now!) "I'm not scared, you're scared!" is the repeated line in a children's story we recently read to the kids at the Unitarian Universalist version of Sunday school I attend with my children. In that story, a scared bear and a brave rabbit, who (naturally!) are best friends, go on a hike together[...]
Thursday, February 19, 2026Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Working for a Nuclear-Free Future (Especially Now!) "I'm not scared, you're scared!" is the repeated line in a children's story we recently read to the kids at the Unitarian Universalist version of Sunday school I attend with my children. In that story, a scared bear and a brave rabbit, who (naturally!) are best friends, go on a hike together[...]
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Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Apprentices (Us!) Once upon a time, if you had described Donald Trump's America to me (the second time around), I would have thought you mad as Alice in Wonderland's proverbial hatter -- or, if you were a fiction writer, I would have considered your plot so ludicrous that, after reading a few pages, I would undoubtedly have tossed your book in the trash[...]
Tuesday, February 17, 2026Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Apprentices (Us!) Once upon a time, if you had described Donald Trump's America to me (the second time around), I would have thought you mad as Alice in Wonderland's proverbial hatter -- or, if you were a fiction writer, I would have considered your plot so ludicrous that, after reading a few pages, I would undoubtedly have tossed your book in the trash[...]
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Thursday, February 12, 2026
Tomgram: John Feffer, Trump Goes Rogue as a Globocop A mere 15 years ago, during an epoch that now seems as distant as the Paleozoic era, an American president attempted to use military power to prevent a dictator from slaughtering his own citizens. Barack Obama billed the action in Libya as a humanitarian intervention, citing the new U.N. doctrine of "responsibility to protect" (R2P)[...]
Thursday, February 12, 2026Tomgram: John Feffer, Trump Goes Rogue as a Globocop A mere 15 years ago, during an epoch that now seems as distant as the Paleozoic era, an American president attempted to use military power to prevent a dictator from slaughtering his own citizens. Barack Obama billed the action in Libya as a humanitarian intervention, citing the new U.N. doctrine of "responsibility to protect" (R2P)[...]
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Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Homeward Bound? (Not in Donald Trump's America) Today, during my slog through the Substack messages, newspaper headline notices, and podcast reminders that hit my inbox every morning, two stories drew my attention. Both had to do with the fact that human beings have always moved around this planet, beginning long before there were any countries or maps to display the borders where one nation ends and another begins[...]
Wednesday, February 11, 2026Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Homeward Bound? (Not in Donald Trump's America) Today, during my slog through the Substack messages, newspaper headline notices, and podcast reminders that hit my inbox every morning, two stories drew my attention. Both had to do with the fact that human beings have always moved around this planet, beginning long before there were any countries or maps to display the borders where one nation ends and another begins[...]
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Monday, February 9, 2026
Tomgram: Eric Ross, Living on Borrowed Time On February 5th, with the expiration of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or New START, the only bilateral arms control treaty left between the United States and Russia, we are guaranteed to find ourselves ever closer to the edge of a perilous precipice. The renewed arms race that seems likely to take place could plunge the world, once and for all, into the nuclear abyss[...]
Monday, February 9, 2026Tomgram: Eric Ross, Living on Borrowed Time On February 5th, with the expiration of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or New START, the only bilateral arms control treaty left between the United States and Russia, we are guaranteed to find ourselves ever closer to the edge of a perilous precipice. The renewed arms race that seems likely to take place could plunge the world, once and for all, into the nuclear abyss[...]
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Thursday, February 5, 2026
Tomgram: William Astore, America's Teflon Pentagon What constitutes national security and how is it best achieved? Does massive military spending really make a country more secure, and what perils to democracy and liberty are posed by vast military establishments? Questions like those are rarely addressed in honest ways these days in America. Instead, the Trump administration favors preparations for war and more war[...]
Thursday, February 5, 2026Tomgram: William Astore, America's Teflon Pentagon What constitutes national security and how is it best achieved? Does massive military spending really make a country more secure, and what perils to democracy and liberty are posed by vast military establishments? Questions like those are rarely addressed in honest ways these days in America. Instead, the Trump administration favors preparations for war and more war[...]
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Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Tomgram: Liz Theoharis and Sam Theoharis, Why We Need Young Organizers Now Here's a small suggestion from the two authors of this piece (us): don't be young in Donald Trump's America if you can help it. Being young in America right now means you'll have to contend with stalling job markets, rampant inflation, deep political and economic instability, and impending climate disaster. If you point these things out, you're labeled a dangerous (and misguided) radical[...]
Tuesday, February 3, 2026Tomgram: Liz Theoharis and Sam Theoharis, Why We Need Young Organizers Now Here's a small suggestion from the two authors of this piece (us): don't be young in Donald Trump's America if you can help it. Being young in America right now means you'll have to contend with stalling job markets, rampant inflation, deep political and economic instability, and impending climate disaster. If you point these things out, you're labeled a dangerous (and misguided) radical[...]
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Monday, February 2, 2026
Tomgram: Juan Cole, Shooting Protesters from Minneapolis to Tehran The pro-democracy protesters in Iran deserved so much better. They deserved the support of a democratic United States that could sincerely urge the rule of law and habeas corpus (allowing people to legally challenge their detentions) be respected, not to speak of freedom of speech, the press, and assembly in accordance with the constitution[...]
Monday, February 2, 2026Tomgram: Juan Cole, Shooting Protesters from Minneapolis to Tehran The pro-democracy protesters in Iran deserved so much better. They deserved the support of a democratic United States that could sincerely urge the rule of law and habeas corpus (allowing people to legally challenge their detentions) be respected, not to speak of freedom of speech, the press, and assembly in accordance with the constitution[...]
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Thursday, January 29, 2026
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Obituary for an Autocrat Having reached a certain age and long been fascinated by obituaries, I sometimes think about both Donald Trump's and my own. At 79, he's just slightly less than two years younger than me, though of course I wasn't the 45th president of the United States or the 47th one either[...]
Thursday, January 29, 2026Tomgram: Engelhardt, Obituary for an Autocrat Having reached a certain age and long been fascinated by obituaries, I sometimes think about both Donald Trump's and my own. At 79, he's just slightly less than two years younger than me, though of course I wasn't the 45th president of the United States or the 47th one either[...]
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Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Waste Not, Want Not (on a Trumpian Planet) I learned one of my most valuable lessons about U.S. power in my first year as a Brown University doctoral student.It was in anthropology professor Catherine Lutz's seminar on empire and social movements. I'd sum up what I remember something like this: Americans consume one hell of a lot -- cars, clothes, food, toys, expensive private colleges (ahem"), and that's just to start[...]
Tuesday, January 27, 2026Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Waste Not, Want Not (on a Trumpian Planet) I learned one of my most valuable lessons about U.S. power in my first year as a Brown University doctoral student.It was in anthropology professor Catherine Lutz's seminar on empire and social movements. I'd sum up what I remember something like this: Americans consume one hell of a lot -- cars, clothes, food, toys, expensive private colleges (ahem"), and that's just to start[...]
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Monday, January 26, 2026
Tomgram: Patrick Strickland, Searching for Hope in an Age of War and Hard Borders After a year of gutting the United States government, deploying armed jackboots to American cities, and bombing at least seven countries, the Trump administration kicked off 2026 by invading Venezuela and kidnapping its president, Nicola's Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores[...]
Monday, January 26, 2026Tomgram: Patrick Strickland, Searching for Hope in an Age of War and Hard Borders After a year of gutting the United States government, deploying armed jackboots to American cities, and bombing at least seven countries, the Trump administration kicked off 2026 by invading Venezuela and kidnapping its president, Nicola's Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores[...]
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Thursday, January 22, 2026
Tomgram: William D. Hartung, Trump's Doubling Down on Imperialism in Latin America Is a Formula for Decline The Trump administration's exercise in armed regime change in Venezuela should have come as no surprise. The U.S. naval buildup in the Caribbean and the attacks on defenseless boats off the Venezuelan coast -- based on unproven allegations that they contained drug traffickers -- had been underway for more than three months[...]
Thursday, January 22, 2026Tomgram: William D. Hartung, Trump's Doubling Down on Imperialism in Latin America Is a Formula for Decline The Trump administration's exercise in armed regime change in Venezuela should have come as no surprise. The U.S. naval buildup in the Caribbean and the attacks on defenseless boats off the Venezuelan coast -- based on unproven allegations that they contained drug traffickers -- had been underway for more than three months[...]
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Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, The Real Donald, Duck! Writers often try to gild their tawdry times or dignify their flawed leaders with lofty literary analogies -- notably, America as the New Jerusalem; Lincoln as Moses leading his people through the wilderness of the Civil War; the Kennedy White House as an incarnation of King Arthur's "Camelot"; or Lyndon Johnson living his last years as a latter-day King Lear[...]
Tuesday, January 20, 2026Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, The Real Donald, Duck! Writers often try to gild their tawdry times or dignify their flawed leaders with lofty literary analogies -- notably, America as the New Jerusalem; Lincoln as Moses leading his people through the wilderness of the Civil War; the Kennedy White House as an incarnation of King Arthur's "Camelot"; or Lyndon Johnson living his last years as a latter-day King Lear[...]
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Thursday, January 15, 2026
Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, Is Vance Next? Donald Trump may, of course, be the Republican candidate for president in 2028, the U.S. Constitution notwithstanding. Although it is clearly written in the 22nd Amendment that "no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice," it may well be a majority vote of the Supreme Court that determines whether that applies to Trump[...]
Thursday, January 15, 2026Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, Is Vance Next? Donald Trump may, of course, be the Republican candidate for president in 2028, the U.S. Constitution notwithstanding. Although it is clearly written in the 22nd Amendment that "no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice," it may well be a majority vote of the Supreme Court that determines whether that applies to Trump[...]
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