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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, June 4, 2026
Tomgram: Engelhardt, A Personal TomDispatch Farewell (of Sorts) Okay, here's what this old man remembers nearly a quarter of a century later. I was living in New York City (as I still am) when, on September 11, 2001, two hijacked planes full of passengers hit the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, killing almost 3,000 innocent people. Until that moment, of course, such a thing would have been beyond inconceivable, no less watchable on TV, in the United States of America[...]
Thursday, June 4, 2026Tomgram: Engelhardt, A Personal TomDispatch Farewell (of Sorts) Okay, here's what this old man remembers nearly a quarter of a century later. I was living in New York City (as I still am) when, on September 11, 2001, two hijacked planes full of passengers hit the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, killing almost 3,000 innocent people. Until that moment, of course, such a thing would have been beyond inconceivable, no less watchable on TV, in the United States of America[...]
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Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, A World Without America? While Washington's war with Iran drags on, month after month, without any end in sight, the world is witnessing the very real limits of U.S. global power. As President Donald Trump lurches repeatedly from threats of devastation to promises of peace, it's becoming increasingly clear that U.S. military might is no longer capable of subduing even a mid-sized power like Iran, much less holding the rest of the world in its thrall.
Tuesday, June 2, 2026Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, A World Without America? While Washington's war with Iran drags on, month after month, without any end in sight, the world is witnessing the very real limits of U.S. global power. As President Donald Trump lurches repeatedly from threats of devastation to promises of peace, it's becoming increasingly clear that U.S. military might is no longer capable of subduing even a mid-sized power like Iran, much less holding the rest of the world in its thrall.
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Monday, June 1, 2026
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Endings and Beginnings This is my last article for TomDispatch. For over a decade, Tom Engelhardt has given me a platform to write about pretty much anything that grabs my -- I'll admit it, easily attracted -- attention. It's been a wonderful partnership for me, offering not just a place to publish, but a chance to think, talk, and often argue with the best editor I've ever worked with[...]
Monday, June 1, 2026Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Endings and Beginnings This is my last article for TomDispatch. For over a decade, Tom Engelhardt has given me a platform to write about pretty much anything that grabs my -- I'll admit it, easily attracted -- attention. It's been a wonderful partnership for me, offering not just a place to publish, but a chance to think, talk, and often argue with the best editor I've ever worked with[...]
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Thursday, May 28, 2026
Tomgram: William D. Hartung, Raging Against the Machine Donald Trump's America is a scary place in significant part thanks to an unholy alliance of MAGA devotees who don't believe in science and see intellectuals as public enemy number one, and a gaggle of Silicon Valley militarists who think that they're the smartest people in the room, if not the universe[...]
Thursday, May 28, 2026Tomgram: William D. Hartung, Raging Against the Machine Donald Trump's America is a scary place in significant part thanks to an unholy alliance of MAGA devotees who don't believe in science and see intellectuals as public enemy number one, and a gaggle of Silicon Valley militarists who think that they're the smartest people in the room, if not the universe[...]
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Tuesday, May 26, 2026
Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, To Understand Where America Is Heading, Read Sports When Chinese leaders claim that the American empire is in decline, I immediately assume their analysts are decoding dispatches from ESPN, The Athletic, and columnist Shams Charania. After all, it's in sportswriting, I've come to think, that the songs of the canary in the all-American coal mine couldn't be clearer[...]
Tuesday, May 26, 2026Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, To Understand Where America Is Heading, Read Sports When Chinese leaders claim that the American empire is in decline, I immediately assume their analysts are decoding dispatches from ESPN, The Athletic, and columnist Shams Charania. After all, it's in sportswriting, I've come to think, that the songs of the canary in the all-American coal mine couldn't be clearer[...]
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Monday, May 25, 2026
Tomgram: Jasper Craven, A Hell of a Secretary of War Earlier this year, President Donald Trump surveyed his top military brass on the prospect of making war in Iran. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine urged caution, presciently predicting that a ramped-up campaign against Iran could lead its leaders to close the Strait of Hormuz. However, Pete Hegseth, Trump's self-styled "Secretary of War," jumped at the prospect of such a conflict[...]
Monday, May 25, 2026Tomgram: Jasper Craven, A Hell of a Secretary of War Earlier this year, President Donald Trump surveyed his top military brass on the prospect of making war in Iran. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine urged caution, presciently predicting that a ramped-up campaign against Iran could lead its leaders to close the Strait of Hormuz. However, Pete Hegseth, Trump's self-styled "Secretary of War," jumped at the prospect of such a conflict[...]
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Thursday, May 21, 2026
Tomgram: Nick Turse, A Global War on Children "It's got no anything," President Donald Trump said of Somalia in a recent xenophobic rant. "All they do is run around shooting each other." As is true of so much with this administration, every accusation is also a confession[...]
Thursday, May 21, 2026Tomgram: Nick Turse, A Global War on Children "It's got no anything," President Donald Trump said of Somalia in a recent xenophobic rant. "All they do is run around shooting each other." As is true of so much with this administration, every accusation is also a confession[...]
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Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Tomgram: John Feffer, America's Flight 93 Moment Ever since North Korea suffered through the death of its first leader in 1994, a loss magnified by an economic collapse and a devastating famine, outside observers have likened the country to an airplane experiencing a serious malfunction. The major question they posed: in the end, would North Korea experience a soft landing or a catastrophic crash?[...]
Tuesday, May 19, 2026Tomgram: John Feffer, America's Flight 93 Moment Ever since North Korea suffered through the death of its first leader in 1994, a loss magnified by an economic collapse and a devastating famine, outside observers have likened the country to an airplane experiencing a serious malfunction. The major question they posed: in the end, would North Korea experience a soft landing or a catastrophic crash?[...]
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Thursday, May 14, 2026
Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Every Warship Launched Is a Local Disaster Guns or butter. Butter or guns. Can we have both? If not, which should come first? Consider it one of those chicken-and-egg conundrums of modern society. "Guns" is the stand-in for a well-funded military and "butter" for all the human goods, comforts, and needs of a society[...]
Thursday, May 14, 2026Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Every Warship Launched Is a Local Disaster Guns or butter. Butter or guns. Can we have both? If not, which should come first? Consider it one of those chicken-and-egg conundrums of modern society. "Guns" is the stand-in for a well-funded military and "butter" for all the human goods, comforts, and needs of a society[...]
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Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Tomgram: Juan Cole, The Strait of Hormuz Oil Crisis of 2026 Is the Biggest Ever After British troops had beaten German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's tank forces at the Second Battle of El Alamein in Egypt on November 4, 1942, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill declared, "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the beginning[...]"
Tuesday, May 12, 2026Tomgram: Juan Cole, The Strait of Hormuz Oil Crisis of 2026 Is the Biggest Ever After British troops had beaten German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's tank forces at the Second Battle of El Alamein in Egypt on November 4, 1942, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill declared, "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the beginning[...]"
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Monday, May 11, 2026
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Trumpland Is a Man's World It's been a tough couple of months for women officials in Washington -- or, more accurately, in Trumpland. In early March (Women's History Month, by the way), in a Truth Social post, the president fired Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, the second woman ever to hold that title[...]
Monday, May 11, 2026Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Trumpland Is a Man's World It's been a tough couple of months for women officials in Washington -- or, more accurately, in Trumpland. In early March (Women's History Month, by the way), in a Truth Social post, the president fired Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, the second woman ever to hold that title[...]
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Tuesday, May 5, 2026
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Meanwhile, in El Salvador... Recently, I had the opportunity to stand in a friend's kitchen eating pupusas, the Salvadoran national food, while listening to an update on conditions in Central America from Cristosal's Noah Bullock[...]
Tuesday, May 5, 2026Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Meanwhile, in El Salvador... Recently, I had the opportunity to stand in a friend's kitchen eating pupusas, the Salvadoran national food, while listening to an update on conditions in Central America from Cristosal's Noah Bullock[...]
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Monday, May 4, 2026
Tomgram: Engelhardt, World War III? Unlike every other TomDispatch piece, this one won't be broken up with section titles for a simple reason.It's all about Donald J. Trump and when it comes to him, in this strange world of ours, no one ever really gets a break[...]
Monday, May 4, 2026Tomgram: Engelhardt, World War III? Unlike every other TomDispatch piece, this one won't be broken up with section titles for a simple reason.It's all about Donald J. Trump and when it comes to him, in this strange world of ours, no one ever really gets a break[...]
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Friday, May 1, 2026
Tomgram: William deBuys, The Border Wall Thrives, The Borderlands Don't A leading preoccupation of the first Trump administration has all but slipped from view. Except when ostensible conservatives speak out against it, the major media have scarcely breathed a word on the subject. But it's still there [...]
Friday, May 1, 2026Tomgram: William deBuys, The Border Wall Thrives, The Borderlands Don't A leading preoccupation of the first Trump administration has all but slipped from view. Except when ostensible conservatives speak out against it, the major media have scarcely breathed a word on the subject. But it's still there [...]
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Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, The Trauma and the Terror Among Us America's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been receiving lots of scrutiny right now from journalists and ordinary citizens like me -- and for good reason! Detaining people en route to their kids' schools, in hospitals, or at work shouldn't be the first thing that comes to mind these days when I think of "freedom," "civil rights," or "America[...]"
Wednesday, April 29, 2026Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, The Trauma and the Terror Among Us America's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been receiving lots of scrutiny right now from journalists and ordinary citizens like me -- and for good reason! Detaining people en route to their kids' schools, in hospitals, or at work shouldn't be the first thing that comes to mind these days when I think of "freedom," "civil rights," or "America[...]"
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Monday, April 27, 2026
Tomgram: William D. Hartung, Shutting Down the War Machine Right at this moment, we are witnessing an unprecedented shift of resources from domestic investments in the United States to the military-industrial complex (aka the war machine). The only comparable period in our history was the buildup to World War II, when the United States confronted a powerful adversary in Nazi Germany with designs to control not just Europe, but the world[...]
Monday, April 27, 2026Tomgram: William D. Hartung, Shutting Down the War Machine Right at this moment, we are witnessing an unprecedented shift of resources from domestic investments in the United States to the military-industrial complex (aka the war machine). The only comparable period in our history was the buildup to World War II, when the United States confronted a powerful adversary in Nazi Germany with designs to control not just Europe, but the world[...]
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Thursday, April 23, 2026
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Military Disasters and the End of Empire Writing more than 2,000 years ago, the Greek historian Plutarch gave us an eloquent description of what modern historians now call "micro-militarism." When an imperial power like Athens then, or America now, is in decline, its leaders often react emotionally by mounting seemingly bold military strikes in hopes of regaining the imperial grandeur that's slipping through their fingers[...]
Thursday, April 23, 2026Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Military Disasters and the End of Empire Writing more than 2,000 years ago, the Greek historian Plutarch gave us an eloquent description of what modern historians now call "micro-militarism." When an imperial power like Athens then, or America now, is in decline, its leaders often react emotionally by mounting seemingly bold military strikes in hopes of regaining the imperial grandeur that's slipping through their fingers[...]
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Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Tomgram: Engelhardt, DECLINE!!! When he's on full blast, Donald Trump (not so long ago the "drill, baby, drill" candidate for president) is distinctly a furnace. And he seems intent on turning this planet, our only world, into a version of the same[...]
Wednesday, April 22, 2026Tomgram: Engelhardt, DECLINE!!! When he's on full blast, Donald Trump (not so long ago the "drill, baby, drill" candidate for president) is distinctly a furnace. And he seems intent on turning this planet, our only world, into a version of the same[...]
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Monday, April 20, 2026
Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, Supreme Horror? In late March, I sat in the gallery of the Supreme Court for the first time in my life. Throughout my 30 years of grassroots anti-poverty work, I've joined countless protests and vigils outside the Court. In 2018, I was even arrested and held in detention for praying on its palatial steps. Now, I was seated with a clear view of the nine justices of the nation's highest court[...]
Monday, April 20, 2026Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, Supreme Horror? In late March, I sat in the gallery of the Supreme Court for the first time in my life. Throughout my 30 years of grassroots anti-poverty work, I've joined countless protests and vigils outside the Court. In 2018, I was even arrested and held in detention for praying on its palatial steps. Now, I was seated with a clear view of the nine justices of the nation's highest court[...]
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Thursday, April 16, 2026
Tomgram: Steve Fraser, In Empire We Trust War against Iran. Kidnapping the president of Venezuela. Threatening to take over Cuba and Greenland. Plans to plunder the planet of its land, labor, and vital resources to feed the insatiable appetite of American capitalism are indeed afoot and, in the age of Donald Trump, U.S. imperialism is back with a particular vengeance. Not, of course, that it ever went away. In fact, it's been there from the beginning[...]
Thursday, April 16, 2026Tomgram: Steve Fraser, In Empire We Trust War against Iran. Kidnapping the president of Venezuela. Threatening to take over Cuba and Greenland. Plans to plunder the planet of its land, labor, and vital resources to feed the insatiable appetite of American capitalism are indeed afoot and, in the age of Donald Trump, U.S. imperialism is back with a particular vengeance. Not, of course, that it ever went away. In fact, it's been there from the beginning[...]
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