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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, 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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Tuesday, April 14, 2026
Tomgram: Douglas H. White, 250 Years of American Racism, Up Close and Personal I was born in the American South in 1942 "in the land of the free and the home of the brave" (as the final stanza of the national anthem puts it). Francis Scott Key wrote those words in 1814. However, they were not true then, or in 1942, or today in Donald Trump's all too reactionary America. My Blackness consigned obstacles to me (as it would have in 1814 and 1942) that White people simply don't have[...]
Tuesday, April 14, 2026Tomgram: Douglas H. White, 250 Years of American Racism, Up Close and Personal I was born in the American South in 1942 "in the land of the free and the home of the brave" (as the final stanza of the national anthem puts it). Francis Scott Key wrote those words in 1814. However, they were not true then, or in 1942, or today in Donald Trump's all too reactionary America. My Blackness consigned obstacles to me (as it would have in 1814 and 1942) that White people simply don't have[...]
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Monday, April 13, 2026
Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, The Last Top Jock? Seventy-five years ago, my father and I gazed down from the stands at Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle in the outfield at Yankee Stadium. I was thrilled by the sight of two heroes of my time, but Dad was not impressed. He had seen Babe Ruth[...]
Monday, April 13, 2026Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, The Last Top Jock? Seventy-five years ago, my father and I gazed down from the stands at Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle in the outfield at Yankee Stadium. I was thrilled by the sight of two heroes of my time, but Dad was not impressed. He had seen Babe Ruth[...]
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Thursday, April 9, 2026
Tomgram: Arnold Isaacs, A Crucial Task for Journalists in 2026 A few weeks before the 2020 presidential election, I wrote "An Open Letter to My Old Tribe," urging "every reporter who is covering this election at any level" to focus on a crucial question -- whether the public would trust the election procedure and the losing candidate would accept the result as legitimate[...]
Thursday, April 9, 2026Tomgram: Arnold Isaacs, A Crucial Task for Journalists in 2026 A few weeks before the 2020 presidential election, I wrote "An Open Letter to My Old Tribe," urging "every reporter who is covering this election at any level" to focus on a crucial question -- whether the public would trust the election procedure and the losing candidate would accept the result as legitimate[...]
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Wednesday, April 8, 2026
Tomgram: Nan Levinson, The War in Iran as International Terrorism A couple of wars ago, when I gave readings from my book War Is Not a Game, I sometimes tried to liven things up by asking the audience to guess which of the names I mentioned were for video games and which were for actual U.S. military campaigns. It didn't work when there were veterans in the audience -- they were too familiar with both -- but it did vividly point up the kinship of war and entertainment in our world[...]
Wednesday, April 8, 2026Tomgram: Nan Levinson, The War in Iran as International Terrorism A couple of wars ago, when I gave readings from my book War Is Not a Game, I sometimes tried to liven things up by asking the audience to guess which of the names I mentioned were for video games and which were for actual U.S. military campaigns. It didn't work when there were veterans in the audience -- they were too familiar with both -- but it did vividly point up the kinship of war and entertainment in our world[...]
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Monday, April 6, 2026
Tomgram: Michael Klare, One Blow After Another On March 13th, buried in the New York Times's coverage of the U.S.-Israel-Iran conflict was a headline that would have been easy to miss amid the din of war coverage: "As El Niño Simmers, Scientists Warn of Weather Extremes Starting in Late Summer[...]"
Monday, April 6, 2026Tomgram: Michael Klare, One Blow After Another On March 13th, buried in the New York Times's coverage of the U.S.-Israel-Iran conflict was a headline that would have been easy to miss amid the din of war coverage: "As El Niño Simmers, Scientists Warn of Weather Extremes Starting in Late Summer[...]"
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Monday, April 6, 2026
Tomgram: Eric Ross, Forever War (Yet Again!) What will the costs of the latest round of illegal, ill-fated U.S. military adventurism in the Middle East amount to? Some of the toll is already clear. Washington has squandered billions of dollars on a reckless war of aggression against Iran. A merciless campaign of aerial bombardment has driven millions from their homes[...]
Monday, April 6, 2026Tomgram: Eric Ross, Forever War (Yet Again!) What will the costs of the latest round of illegal, ill-fated U.S. military adventurism in the Middle East amount to? Some of the toll is already clear. Washington has squandered billions of dollars on a reckless war of aggression against Iran. A merciless campaign of aerial bombardment has driven millions from their homes[...]
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