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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, 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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Thursday, October 16, 2025
Tomgram: Nick Turse, The War Within Earlier this month, President Donald Trump threatened to unleash the armed forces on more American cities during a rambling address to top military brass. He told the hundreds of generals and admirals gathered to hear him that some of them would be called upon to take a primary role at a time when his administration has launched occupations of American cities, deployed tens of thousands of troops across the United States[...]
Thursday, October 16, 2025Tomgram: Nick Turse, The War Within Earlier this month, President Donald Trump threatened to unleash the armed forces on more American cities during a rambling address to top military brass. He told the hundreds of generals and admirals gathered to hear him that some of them would be called upon to take a primary role at a time when his administration has launched occupations of American cities, deployed tens of thousands of troops across the United States[...]
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Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Tomgram: Juan Cole, Terror from the Skies in the Middle East Donald Trumps and Benjamin Netanyahu's nomination of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, his hands already crimson with the blood of innocent Iraqis, to run post-war Gaza, brings to mind a distant era when London sent its politicians out to be viceroys in its global colonial domains. Consider Blair's proposed appointment, made (of course!) without consulting any Palestinians[...]
Tuesday, October 14, 2025Tomgram: Juan Cole, Terror from the Skies in the Middle East Donald Trumps and Benjamin Netanyahu's nomination of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, his hands already crimson with the blood of innocent Iraqis, to run post-war Gaza, brings to mind a distant era when London sent its politicians out to be viceroys in its global colonial domains. Consider Blair's proposed appointment, made (of course!) without consulting any Palestinians[...]
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Thursday, October 9, 2025
Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, He's No Prize Who doesnt know that President Donald Trump desperately wants a Nobel Peace Prize and said bitterly, They will never give me a Nobel Peace Prize. Its too bad. I deserve it, but they will never give it to me?[...]
Thursday, October 9, 2025Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, He's No Prize Who doesnt know that President Donald Trump desperately wants a Nobel Peace Prize and said bitterly, They will never give me a Nobel Peace Prize. Its too bad. I deserve it, but they will never give it to me?[...]
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Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Making Sense of a World with a Maniac in the Driver's Seat One strangely hot November afternoon, I waited for my elementary-school-aged kids to arrive at their bus stop. The quiet in our rural area was eerie. It captured the mood in the days after a national election that no one in my little community yet knew exactly how to respond to[...]
Tuesday, October 7, 2025Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Making Sense of a World with a Maniac in the Driver's Seat One strangely hot November afternoon, I waited for my elementary-school-aged kids to arrive at their bus stop. The quiet in our rural area was eerie. It captured the mood in the days after a national election that no one in my little community yet knew exactly how to respond to[...]
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Monday, October 6, 2025
Tomgram: Alfred W. McCoy, A Dying American Empire, "Rotten to the Heart"? In his novel The Autumn of the Patriarch, which is eerily evocative of our current political plight, Gabriel Garcia Marquez described how a Latin American autocrat discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth, [and] became convinced that the only livable life was one of show[...]
Monday, October 6, 2025Tomgram: Alfred W. McCoy, A Dying American Empire, "Rotten to the Heart"? In his novel The Autumn of the Patriarch, which is eerily evocative of our current political plight, Gabriel Garcia Marquez described how a Latin American autocrat discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth, [and] became convinced that the only livable life was one of show[...]
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Thursday, October 2, 2025
Tomgram: Engelhardt, A Hell-on-Earth Presidency Ours would be the normal story of imperial powers rising and falling on Planet Earth nothing new there, of course if it weren't for one thing: the fact that this world, too, is now falling[...]
Thursday, October 2, 2025Tomgram: Engelhardt, A Hell-on-Earth Presidency Ours would be the normal story of imperial powers rising and falling on Planet Earth nothing new there, of course if it weren't for one thing: the fact that this world, too, is now falling[...]
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Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Tomgram: William D. Hartung, Antiwar Veterans in the Age of Trump Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, the former Fox and Friends cohost, claims to be obsessed with making the Pentagon and the military services about the warfighter. His main approach to doing so is a deeply misguided campaign to reduce distractions like commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion (the dreaded DEI)[...]
Tuesday, September 30, 2025Tomgram: William D. Hartung, Antiwar Veterans in the Age of Trump Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, the former Fox and Friends cohost, claims to be obsessed with making the Pentagon and the military services about the warfighter. His main approach to doing so is a deeply misguided campaign to reduce distractions like commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion (the dreaded DEI)[...]
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Monday, September 29, 2025
Tomgram: Nan Levinson, Making Trump Listen On July 17th, I joined a group of Vermonters for a Good Trouble Lives On action in a village near where we were staying that month. Over the past 161 straight days, a small but determined contingent of mostly White, mostly grey-haired, mostly too-polite-to-make-much-trouble residents had been gathering at noon to protest Donald Trumps policies on a little triangle of land where two streets meet in the village center[...]
Monday, September 29, 2025Tomgram: Nan Levinson, Making Trump Listen On July 17th, I joined a group of Vermonters for a Good Trouble Lives On action in a village near where we were staying that month. Over the past 161 straight days, a small but determined contingent of mostly White, mostly grey-haired, mostly too-polite-to-make-much-trouble residents had been gathering at noon to protest Donald Trumps policies on a little triangle of land where two streets meet in the village center[...]
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Thursday, September 25, 2025
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, The Death of Civil Rights in the Age of Trump Warning: dangers in the mirror are often closer than they may appear. In other words, the next few paragraphs may seem to be hyperbole but are, in fact, expressions of reality (animated by a cold fury). On September 8, 2025, the Supreme Court did its best to murder whats left of civil rights in this country[...]
Thursday, September 25, 2025Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, The Death of Civil Rights in the Age of Trump Warning: dangers in the mirror are often closer than they may appear. In other words, the next few paragraphs may seem to be hyperbole but are, in fact, expressions of reality (animated by a cold fury). On September 8, 2025, the Supreme Court did its best to murder whats left of civil rights in this country[...]
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Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Water, Water, Everywhere? (Not Anymore!) The truck wheels inner tube was right in front of me, no longer half-submerged in the ponds late summer muck. After so many hot weeks without rain, the water had dried up and the garbage was completely exposed[...]
Tuesday, September 23, 2025Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Water, Water, Everywhere? (Not Anymore!) The truck wheels inner tube was right in front of me, no longer half-submerged in the ponds late summer muck. After so many hot weeks without rain, the water had dried up and the garbage was completely exposed[...]
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Thursday, September 18, 2025
Tomgram: Eric Ross, The Pentagon Never Needed a License to Kill The renaming of the Defense Department should have surprised no one. Donald Trump is an incipient fascist doing what such figures do. Surrounded by a coterie of illiberal ideologues and careerist sycophants, he and his top aides have dispensed with pretense and precedent, moving at breakneck speed to demolish what remains of the battered facade of American democracy[...]
Thursday, September 18, 2025Tomgram: Eric Ross, The Pentagon Never Needed a License to Kill The renaming of the Defense Department should have surprised no one. Donald Trump is an incipient fascist doing what such figures do. Surrounded by a coterie of illiberal ideologues and careerist sycophants, he and his top aides have dispensed with pretense and precedent, moving at breakneck speed to demolish what remains of the battered facade of American democracy[...]
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Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Tomgram: William Astore, More War, More Misery My fellow Americans, my critical voice has finally been heard inside the Oval Office. No, not my voice against the $1.7 trillion this country is planning to spend on new nuclear weapons. No, not my call to cut the Pentagon budget in half. No, not my imprecations against militarism in America. It was a quip of mine that the Department of Defense (DoD) should return to its roots as the War Department[...]
Tuesday, September 16, 2025Tomgram: William Astore, More War, More Misery My fellow Americans, my critical voice has finally been heard inside the Oval Office. No, not my voice against the $1.7 trillion this country is planning to spend on new nuclear weapons. No, not my call to cut the Pentagon budget in half. No, not my imprecations against militarism in America. It was a quip of mine that the Department of Defense (DoD) should return to its roots as the War Department[...]
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Monday, September 15, 2025
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Vying for Global Supremacy on a Warming, Turbulent Planet We're No. 1 and theyre No. 2 in the world. That was President Trumps blunt assessment of global power politics when it came to the United States and Russia following his inconclusive summit meeting with Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 15th. Of all his comments about the meeting, that numerical assessment made during a post-summit interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News was perhaps the most revealing[...]
Monday, September 15, 2025Tomgram: Michael Klare, Vying for Global Supremacy on a Warming, Turbulent Planet We're No. 1 and theyre No. 2 in the world. That was President Trumps blunt assessment of global power politics when it came to the United States and Russia following his inconclusive summit meeting with Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 15th. Of all his comments about the meeting, that numerical assessment made during a post-summit interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News was perhaps the most revealing[...]
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Thursday, September 11, 2025
Tomgram: Mattea Kramer and Sean Fogler, Real Estate Roulette The federal takeover of Washington, D.C., rightfully attracted extensive media coverage, but an executive order called Ending Crime and Disorder on Americas Streets, quietly issued on July 24th, received remarkably little attention. Perhaps it didnt make a splash because it wasnt specifically about policing (or, for that matter, National Guarding), but more generally about how we should treat people[...]
Thursday, September 11, 2025Tomgram: Mattea Kramer and Sean Fogler, Real Estate Roulette The federal takeover of Washington, D.C., rightfully attracted extensive media coverage, but an executive order called Ending Crime and Disorder on Americas Streets, quietly issued on July 24th, received remarkably little attention. Perhaps it didnt make a splash because it wasnt specifically about policing (or, for that matter, National Guarding), but more generally about how we should treat people[...]
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Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, A Battle for the Bible in Trump's America It was a moment somewhat like this, 30 years ago, that turned me into a biblical scholar. In the lead-up to the passage of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, political and religious leaders quoted scripture to justify shutting down food programs and kicking mothers and their babies off public assistance. Those leaders, many of them self-described Christians, chose to ignore the majority of passages in the Bible[...]
Tuesday, September 9, 2025Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, A Battle for the Bible in Trump's America It was a moment somewhat like this, 30 years ago, that turned me into a biblical scholar. In the lead-up to the passage of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, political and religious leaders quoted scripture to justify shutting down food programs and kicking mothers and their babies off public assistance. Those leaders, many of them self-described Christians, chose to ignore the majority of passages in the Bible[...]
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Monday, September 8, 2025
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Living Through a Global Climate-Change Summer Imagine for a moment a nuclear weapon exploding over well, you name it: Pakistan, India or, for that matter, Ukraine, Russia, or the United States. I guarantee you one thing: the news headlines would be (and I use the word advisedly) explosive for days (weeks, months?) on end, assuming of course that any media was left to cover it[...]
Monday, September 8, 2025Tomgram: Engelhardt, Living Through a Global Climate-Change Summer Imagine for a moment a nuclear weapon exploding over well, you name it: Pakistan, India or, for that matter, Ukraine, Russia, or the United States. I guarantee you one thing: the news headlines would be (and I use the word advisedly) explosive for days (weeks, months?) on end, assuming of course that any media was left to cover it[...]
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Thursday, September 4, 2025
Tomgram: Joshua Frank, Will Cancer Prove to be Another Weapon in Israel's War in Gaza? A week after the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023, a large explosion incinerated a parking lot near the busy Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, killing more than 470 people. It was a horrifying, chaotic scene. Burnt clothing was strewn about, scorched vehicles piled atop one another, and charred buildings surrounded the impact zone[...]
Thursday, September 4, 2025Tomgram: Joshua Frank, Will Cancer Prove to be Another Weapon in Israel's War in Gaza? A week after the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023, a large explosion incinerated a parking lot near the busy Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, killing more than 470 people. It was a horrifying, chaotic scene. Burnt clothing was strewn about, scorched vehicles piled atop one another, and charred buildings surrounded the impact zone[...]
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