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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 12, 2025
Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, Striking Trump Out Thanks to our current misbegotten model of manhood, we are once again arguing about this moral question: Should former Cincinnati Reds player and manager Pete Rose be inducted into Baseball's Hall of Fame? In a sane time, the proper answer would be: Are you kidding?[...]
Thursday, June 12, 2025Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, Striking Trump Out Thanks to our current misbegotten model of manhood, we are once again arguing about this moral question: Should former Cincinnati Reds player and manager Pete Rose be inducted into Baseball's Hall of Fame? In a sane time, the proper answer would be: Are you kidding?[...]
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Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Tomgram: Aviva Chomsky, Who Has Freedom of Movement and Who Controls It? In an aphorism sometimes attributed to Leo Tolstoy, sometimes to John Gardner, all literature relies on one of two plots: a person goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. Let me offer my own version. We might summarize the entire history of the human race in two words: people move. Everything else is just elaboration on that basic plot[...]
Wednesday, June 11, 2025Tomgram: Aviva Chomsky, Who Has Freedom of Movement and Who Controls It? In an aphorism sometimes attributed to Leo Tolstoy, sometimes to John Gardner, all literature relies on one of two plots: a person goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. Let me offer my own version. We might summarize the entire history of the human race in two words: people move. Everything else is just elaboration on that basic plot[...]
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Monday, June 9, 2025
Tomgram: Norman Solomon, Nuclear Winter or Climate-Change Summer, What a Choice! Thirty-five years after the start of the nuclear age with the first explosion of an atomic bomb, I visited the expanse of desert known as the Nevada Test Site, an hour's drive northwest of Las Vegas. A pair of officials from the Department of Energy took me on a tour. They explained that nuclear tests were absolutely necessary. "Nuclear weapons are like automobiles," one told me[...]
Monday, June 9, 2025Tomgram: Norman Solomon, Nuclear Winter or Climate-Change Summer, What a Choice! Thirty-five years after the start of the nuclear age with the first explosion of an atomic bomb, I visited the expanse of desert known as the Nevada Test Site, an hour's drive northwest of Las Vegas. A pair of officials from the Department of Energy took me on a tour. They explained that nuclear tests were absolutely necessary. "Nuclear weapons are like automobiles," one told me[...]
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Friday, June 6, 2025
Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, The Same Technology Powers DoorDash and Weaponized Drones Recently, I've been turning off my iPhone -- all the way off! -- for 10 to 30 minutes at a time. I leave it somewhere in the house, while I try to live IRL ("in real life"), washing dishes, hanging up laundry, or even going for a walk, phoneless[...]
Friday, June 6, 2025Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, The Same Technology Powers DoorDash and Weaponized Drones Recently, I've been turning off my iPhone -- all the way off! -- for 10 to 30 minutes at a time. I leave it somewhere in the house, while I try to live IRL ("in real life"), washing dishes, hanging up laundry, or even going for a walk, phoneless[...]
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Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, Aaron Scott, and Moses Hernandez McGavin, The Christian Nationalist Mission to Banish Trans Peop This year, Pride Month arrives at an especially dire moment for the LGBTQ+ community. Under the second Trump administration, homophobic vitriol and violence are on the rise. On Elon Musk's X platform, a "deepfake" video of Donald Trump canceling Pride Month has gone viral. And even as Pride celebrations continue as planned (in many places without as many corporate contributions), the attacks against LGBTQ+ people[...]
Wednesday, June 4, 2025Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, Aaron Scott, and Moses Hernandez McGavin, The Christian Nationalist Mission to Banish Trans Peop This year, Pride Month arrives at an especially dire moment for the LGBTQ+ community. Under the second Trump administration, homophobic vitriol and violence are on the rise. On Elon Musk's X platform, a "deepfake" video of Donald Trump canceling Pride Month has gone viral. And even as Pride celebrations continue as planned (in many places without as many corporate contributions), the attacks against LGBTQ+ people[...]
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Monday, June 2, 2025
Tomgram: Todd Miller, Donald Trump's Border World in the Age of Climate Change Believe it or not, I had a transcendent experience at this year's Border Security Expo, the annual event that brings Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) together with private industry. I hesitate to describe it that way, though, because I was on the exhibition hall floor and instantly found myself in the very heart of the U.S. border-industrial complex[...]
Monday, June 2, 2025Tomgram: Todd Miller, Donald Trump's Border World in the Age of Climate Change Believe it or not, I had a transcendent experience at this year's Border Security Expo, the annual event that brings Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) together with private industry. I hesitate to describe it that way, though, because I was on the exhibition hall floor and instantly found myself in the very heart of the U.S. border-industrial complex[...]
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Thursday, May 29, 2025
Tomgram: Juan Cole, Trump of Arabia Colorful career criminal Willie Sutton once may (or may not) have been asked why he robbed banks. "Because that is where the money is," he supposedly replied. A similar principle may explain the first foreign trip of President Donald J. Trump's second term, which was not to a traditional U.S. ally in Europe. Rather, he set off to visit the capitals of the Gulf hydrocarbon potentates[...]
Thursday, May 29, 2025Tomgram: Juan Cole, Trump of Arabia Colorful career criminal Willie Sutton once may (or may not) have been asked why he robbed banks. "Because that is where the money is," he supposedly replied. A similar principle may explain the first foreign trip of President Donald J. Trump's second term, which was not to a traditional U.S. ally in Europe. Rather, he set off to visit the capitals of the Gulf hydrocarbon potentates[...]
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Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Tomgram: William D. Hartung and Ashley Gate, The Coming of a Values-Free Foreign Policy The Trump administration seems intent on undermining America's ability to make human rights a significant element of its foreign policy. As evidence of that, consider its plan to dramatically reduce policy directives and personnel devoted to those very issues, including the dismantling of the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Rights, and Labor[...]
Tuesday, May 27, 2025Tomgram: William D. Hartung and Ashley Gate, The Coming of a Values-Free Foreign Policy The Trump administration seems intent on undermining America's ability to make human rights a significant element of its foreign policy. As evidence of that, consider its plan to dramatically reduce policy directives and personnel devoted to those very issues, including the dismantling of the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Rights, and Labor[...]
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Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, How American Soft Power Turned to Dust in the Age of Trump With the Oval Office looking more like a middle school classroom every day, let's recall the way, once upon a time, we responded to childhood taunts from a playground bully. You remember how it goes. Your nemesis says mockingly that you're a this-or-that and you shout back: "Takes one to know one!" Indeed, it does[...]
Tuesday, May 27, 2025Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, How American Soft Power Turned to Dust in the Age of Trump With the Oval Office looking more like a middle school classroom every day, let's recall the way, once upon a time, we responded to childhood taunts from a playground bully. You remember how it goes. Your nemesis says mockingly that you're a this-or-that and you shout back: "Takes one to know one!" Indeed, it does[...]
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Thursday, May 22, 2025
Tomgram: Greg Grandin, The Conquest Never Ends Leon Golub once related a story to a mutual friend. A Chicago artist famous for large canvases depicting crimson torture rooms in Central America, Golub had been asked what it meant to him to be a "Jewish political artist." The painter's quick reply was that he wasn't a "Jewish political artist," he was just a "political artist." In the end, though, Golub came to believe that he had let himself off too easily[...]
Thursday, May 22, 2025Tomgram: Greg Grandin, The Conquest Never Ends Leon Golub once related a story to a mutual friend. A Chicago artist famous for large canvases depicting crimson torture rooms in Central America, Golub had been asked what it meant to him to be a "Jewish political artist." The painter's quick reply was that he wasn't a "Jewish political artist," he was just a "political artist." In the end, though, Golub came to believe that he had let himself off too easily[...]
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Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Donald Trump's War on Black People On May 5th, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute held its annual fundraising gala. The event showcases the extraordinary imaginations of people who design exorbitant clothes and the gutsiness of those who dare (and can afford) to wear them[...]
Tuesday, May 20, 2025Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Donald Trump's War on Black People On May 5th, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute held its annual fundraising gala. The event showcases the extraordinary imaginations of people who design exorbitant clothes and the gutsiness of those who dare (and can afford) to wear them[...]
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Monday, May 19, 2025
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Why Do Trump 2.0's Kidnappings Surprise Us? I don't know about you, but the news continues to stress me out. Trump administration officials are using any excuse they can think of to detain and deport people whose points of view -- or whose very existence on U.S. soil -- seem to threaten their agenda[...]
Monday, May 19, 2025Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Why Do Trump 2.0's Kidnappings Surprise Us? I don't know about you, but the news continues to stress me out. Trump administration officials are using any excuse they can think of to detain and deport people whose points of view -- or whose very existence on U.S. soil -- seem to threaten their agenda[...]
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Thursday, May 15, 2025
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Tariffic! I remember the phrase from my boyhood, listening to baseball games on the old wooden radio by my bed. A major hitter would be up and -- bang! -- he'd connect with the ball in a big-time fashion. The announcer in a rising voice would then say dramatically: "It's going, going, gone!" It was a phrase connected to success of the first order. It was Duke Snider or Mickey Mantle hitting a homer[..]
Thursday, May 15, 2025Tomgram: Engelhardt, Tariffic! I remember the phrase from my boyhood, listening to baseball games on the old wooden radio by my bed. A major hitter would be up and -- bang! -- he'd connect with the ball in a big-time fashion. The announcer in a rising voice would then say dramatically: "It's going, going, gone!" It was a phrase connected to success of the first order. It was Duke Snider or Mickey Mantle hitting a homer[..]
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Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, The Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting in the Age of Trump In these first 100-plus days of the nation's 47th presidency, President Donald Trump and his sidekick Elon Musk have cast a frightful spell over the country. As if brandishing wands from inside their capes -- poof! -- offices and their employees, responsibilities and aims, norms and policies have simply disappeared[...]
Tuesday, May 13, 2025Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, The Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting in the Age of Trump In these first 100-plus days of the nation's 47th presidency, President Donald Trump and his sidekick Elon Musk have cast a frightful spell over the country. As if brandishing wands from inside their capes -- poof! -- offices and their employees, responsibilities and aims, norms and policies have simply disappeared[...]
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Monday, May 12, 2025
Tomgram: Joshua Frank, Trump's Greed New Deal Ancient oak trees rise above gigantic boulders scattered across a high desert mesa in Arizona's Tonto National Forest. This is Oak Flat (Chi' chil Bildagoteel), a sacred site for Native Americans, including the Western and San Carlos Apache. And like many other lands across the West, it's under grave threat from multinational mining interests, all in the name of climate mitigation, but most importantly, for the money[...]
Monday, May 12, 2025Tomgram: Joshua Frank, Trump's Greed New Deal Ancient oak trees rise above gigantic boulders scattered across a high desert mesa in Arizona's Tonto National Forest. This is Oak Flat (Chi' chil Bildagoteel), a sacred site for Native Americans, including the Western and San Carlos Apache. And like many other lands across the West, it's under grave threat from multinational mining interests, all in the name of climate mitigation, but most importantly, for the money[...]
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Thursday, May 8, 2025
Tomgram: William Astore, Too Much Bombing, Not Enough Brains Forty years ago this month, I was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. I would be part of America's all-volunteer force (AVF) for 20 years, hitting my marks and retiring as a lieutenant colonel in 2005. In my two decades of service, I met a lot of fine and dedicated officers, enlisted members, and civilians. I worked with the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps as well [...]
Thursday, May 8, 2025Tomgram: William Astore, Too Much Bombing, Not Enough Brains Forty years ago this month, I was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. I would be part of America's all-volunteer force (AVF) for 20 years, hitting my marks and retiring as a lieutenant colonel in 2005. In my two decades of service, I met a lot of fine and dedicated officers, enlisted members, and civilians. I worked with the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps as well [...]
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Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, Eight Topics to Topple Trump If the overwhelming deluge from the Trumpian firehose of lies, threats, incompetency, illegal actions, and surreality is sweeping you off your feet, driving you to bedridden depression, leaving you passive and breathlessly unable to mount a response, much less resistance, please get into the huddle, take a time-out, and listen up to your Jock Culture coach. (That's me, of course!)[...]
Tuesday, May 6, 2025Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, Eight Topics to Topple Trump If the overwhelming deluge from the Trumpian firehose of lies, threats, incompetency, illegal actions, and surreality is sweeping you off your feet, driving you to bedridden depression, leaving you passive and breathlessly unable to mount a response, much less resistance, please get into the huddle, take a time-out, and listen up to your Jock Culture coach. (That's me, of course!)[...]
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Thursday, May 1, 2025
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Apocalyptic Don? Yes, give us human beings credit. In our relatively brief history, it's no small thing to have come up with two different ways of thoroughly devastating Planet Earth and its inhabitants. One of them, of course, is the long-term, slow-motion version of planetary destruction that we've come to call climate change. And yes, we can already feel it[...]
Thursday, May 1, 2025Tomgram: Engelhardt, Apocalyptic Don? Yes, give us human beings credit. In our relatively brief history, it's no small thing to have come up with two different ways of thoroughly devastating Planet Earth and its inhabitants. One of them, of course, is the long-term, slow-motion version of planetary destruction that we've come to call climate change. And yes, we can already feel it[...]
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Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Tomgram: Nan Levinson, How Trump Plays the Media It's not a good time to be an American journalist. Or a consumer of American journalism. Or, for that matter, even a skimmer of the headlines crawling across American phones[...]
Tuesday, April 29, 2025Tomgram: Nan Levinson, How Trump Plays the Media It's not a good time to be an American journalist. Or a consumer of American journalism. Or, for that matter, even a skimmer of the headlines crawling across American phones[...]
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Monday, April 28, 2025
Tomgram: Norman Solomon, Top Democrats Have Been Enabling Trump America desperately needs a united front to restrain the wrecking ball of the Trump regime. While outraged opposition has been visible and vocal, it remains a far cry from developing a capacity to protect what's left of democracy in the United States[...]
Monday, April 28, 2025Tomgram: Norman Solomon, Top Democrats Have Been Enabling Trump America desperately needs a united front to restrain the wrecking ball of the Trump regime. While outraged opposition has been visible and vocal, it remains a far cry from developing a capacity to protect what's left of democracy in the United States[...]
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