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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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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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Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Tomgram: Helen Benedict, Two Different Wars, Two Different Presidents, But the Same Lies I'm writing this piece well into President Donald Trump's new war with Iran, which, with the help of Israel, has already killed more than 2,000 civilians, including 175 schoolgirls and staff; displaced some 3.2 million people; and is costing the American taxpayer at least one billion dollars a day. All of which is tragically reminiscent of the last time a Republican president led the U.S. into a war on a river of lies[...]
Tuesday, March 31, 2026Tomgram: Helen Benedict, Two Different Wars, Two Different Presidents, But the Same Lies I'm writing this piece well into President Donald Trump's new war with Iran, which, with the help of Israel, has already killed more than 2,000 civilians, including 175 schoolgirls and staff; displaced some 3.2 million people; and is costing the American taxpayer at least one billion dollars a day. All of which is tragically reminiscent of the last time a Republican president led the U.S. into a war on a river of lies[...]
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Monday, March 30, 2026
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Will Donald Trump Take the Planet Down With Him? Honestly, I can't believe I'm in this world of ours (or do I mean His?). Yes, this very one and no other![...]
Monday, March 30, 2026Tomgram: Engelhardt, Will Donald Trump Take the Planet Down With Him? Honestly, I can't believe I'm in this world of ours (or do I mean His?). Yes, this very one and no other![...]
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Sunday, March 29, 2026
Tomgram: David Bromwich, The Annals of an Empire in Free Fall The joint US-Israeli killing of Iranian leaders on February 28th marked the second time in a year that the United States had used negotiations as a decoy for a surprise attack. On the pattern of Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939, our own invasion of Iraq in 2003, and Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the U.S. under President Trump has indeed launched a criminal war of aggression[...]
Sunday, March 29, 2026Tomgram: David Bromwich, The Annals of an Empire in Free Fall The joint US-Israeli killing of Iranian leaders on February 28th marked the second time in a year that the United States had used negotiations as a decoy for a surprise attack. On the pattern of Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939, our own invasion of Iraq in 2003, and Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the U.S. under President Trump has indeed launched a criminal war of aggression[...]
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Sunday, March 29, 2026
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, The American Gulag 2026 The March 4, 2026, edition of the Arizona Daily Star put the facts succinctly: "A Haitian asylum seeker held for four months at Florence Correctional Center died Monday at a Scottsdale hospital due to complications from an infected tooth." It seems the infection spread from his tooth to his lungs, and he developed the pneumonia that killed him[...]
Sunday, March 29, 2026Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, The American Gulag 2026 The March 4, 2026, edition of the Arizona Daily Star put the facts succinctly: "A Haitian asylum seeker held for four months at Florence Correctional Center died Monday at a Scottsdale hospital due to complications from an infected tooth." It seems the infection spread from his tooth to his lungs, and he developed the pneumonia that killed him[...]
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Sunday, March 29, 2026
Tomgram: Patrick Strickland, And Then the Slaughter Began After protests across Iran turned deadly in January, President Donald Trump promised Iranians that "help is on the way." On February 28th, the U.S. and Israel launched what immediately became a devastating war on Iran. American and Israeli warplanes began dropping bombs on a country of some 93 million people. Trump soon put out a video address, telling Iranians that "the hour of your freedom is at hand[...]"
Sunday, March 29, 2026Tomgram: Patrick Strickland, And Then the Slaughter Began After protests across Iran turned deadly in January, President Donald Trump promised Iranians that "help is on the way." On February 28th, the U.S. and Israel launched what immediately became a devastating war on Iran. American and Israeli warplanes began dropping bombs on a country of some 93 million people. Trump soon put out a video address, telling Iranians that "the hour of your freedom is at hand[...]"
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Sunday, March 29, 2026
Tomgram: Joshua Frank, The Nuclear Disaster You Weren't Thinking About Nine countries now possess nuclear weapons and we have just seen the start of a new war in the Middle East over one more nation supposedly trying to acquire them. While we consider the dangers of such weapons and their capacity to cause massive destruction, we often overlook the risks associated with what still passes for "peaceful" nuclear power[...]
Sunday, March 29, 2026Tomgram: Joshua Frank, The Nuclear Disaster You Weren't Thinking About Nine countries now possess nuclear weapons and we have just seen the start of a new war in the Middle East over one more nation supposedly trying to acquire them. While we consider the dangers of such weapons and their capacity to cause massive destruction, we often overlook the risks associated with what still passes for "peaceful" nuclear power[...]
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Tuesday, March 17, 2026
Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, Racial Genetics Is Trump's Defining Worldview (Full Stop!) Jeffrey Epstein was not only a rapist and a child predator, but also -- wait for it -- a White supremacist. While some speculate that the Epstein issue is just a distraction from President Trump's virulent and endless racism, others feel that the video the president posted at the beginning of Black History Month of Barack and Michelle Obama as apes was meant to divert attention from the growing Epstein fallout[...]
Tuesday, March 17, 2026Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, Racial Genetics Is Trump's Defining Worldview (Full Stop!) Jeffrey Epstein was not only a rapist and a child predator, but also -- wait for it -- a White supremacist. While some speculate that the Epstein issue is just a distraction from President Trump's virulent and endless racism, others feel that the video the president posted at the beginning of Black History Month of Barack and Michelle Obama as apes was meant to divert attention from the growing Epstein fallout[...]
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