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SHARE        Thursday, April 24, 2025
Tomgram: Mattea Kramer and Sean Fogler, The Gutting of American Mental Health Care The United States has been in the throes of a mental health and overdose crisis so severe it has spanned five presidential administrations and been classified as an official state of emergency in three of them. No one knows exactly how this emergency will play out during the current Trumpian cocktail of uncertainty, fear, and cuts to social services[...]

SHARE        Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Tomgram: William D. Hartung, Welcome to the Garrison State Under the guise of efficiency, the Trump administration is taking a sledgehammer to essential programs and agencies that are the backbone of America's civilian government. The virtual elimination of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and plans to shut down the Department of Education are just the most visible examples of a campaign that includes layoffs of budget experts, public health officials [...]

SHARE        Monday, April 21, 2025
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, It Didn't Start with Donald Trump In 2003, the Macedonian police arrested Khaled el-Masri, a German citizen vacationing in their country. They handed the unfortunate man over to the CIA, who shipped him off to one of their "black sites[...]"

SHARE        Thursday, April 17, 2025
Tomgram: Douglas H. White, Past is Prologue in the Trump Era Recently, in an executive order, President Trump directed the removal of "improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology" from the Smithsonian Institution. That order was, in essence, an attempt to rewrite history on race and gender. One-hundred-and-one-year-old Colonel James H. Harvey, one of the last of the famed Tuskegee airmen of World War II, blamed Trump, saying, "I'll tell him to his face. No problem[...]"

SHARE        Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Tomgram: Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back, Trump's War on the Poor in a New Gilded Age The day after Donald Trump won the 2024 election, the 10 richest people in the world -- including nine Americans -- expanded their wealth by nearly $64 billion, the greatest single-day increase in recorded history. Since then, an unholy marriage of billionaire investors, tech bros, Christian nationalists, and, of course, Donald Trump has staged an oligarchic assault on our democracy[...]

SHARE        Monday, April 14, 2025
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Is 2025 the New 1984? Most of us can remember at least a few troubling scenes from George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984: the mandatory love demanded for the spectral dictator Big Brother; the malleability of facts at the Ministry of Truth; or the ruling party's memorably grim slogans, "War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery." But for me, the most disturbing image of all -- and I first read the book in high school -- was the "Two Minutes Hate,"[...]

SHARE        Thursday, April 10, 2025
Tomgram: Aviva Chomsky, Who Are the Barbarians on This Planet? In the colonial view of the world -- and, in its own strange fashion, Donald Trump's view couldn't be more colonial -- White European colonizers were embattled beacons of civilization, rationality, and progress, confronting dangerous barbaric hordes beyond (and even, sometimes, within) their own frontiers[...]

SHARE        Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Trumpworld, The Second Time Around (and Around and Around) From childhood, I think I had some eerie sense of just how bad it could get in America. After all, in junior high and high school, I was riveted by this country's Civil War. Among all my toy soldiers -- cowboys and Indians, British marching troops in red jackets, and plastic Army-green World War II soldiers [...]

SHARE        Monday, April 7, 2025
Tomgram: Arnold Isaacs, A Look at USAID From the Inside What put the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), with an annual budget hovering at just about 1% of federal spending, at the top of Elon Musk's budget-cutting target list? Was it just a political calculation that foreign aid is a safe target because it's unpopular with so many Americans and cutting those funds will only hurt foreigners, not U.S. voters?[...]

SHARE        Thursday, April 3, 2025
Tomgram: William Astore, War Now, War Tomorrow, War Forever? I read the news today, oh boy. About a lucky man named Elon Musk. But he lost out on one thing: he didn't get a top secret briefing on Pentagon war plans for China. And the news people breathed a sigh of relief. With apologies to John Lennon and The Beatles, a day in the life is getting increasingly tough to take here in the land of the free[...]

SHARE        Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Goodbye to All That? The second administration of President Donald J. Trump has already started working its special magic across the Washington, D.C. capital region. Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have fired tens of thousands of federal workers, with more to come. Those who have lost their jobs include people who find housing and other support for veterans struggling with mental illness[...]

SHARE        Monday, March 31, 2025
Tomgram: John Feffer, Can Europe Stop Trump and Putin? The news of Rodrigo Duterte's arrest surprised me. It's not that I doubted the former leader of the Philippines was guilty of the horrific crimes detailed in his International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant. Duterte himself boasted quite openly of the mass killings he's been accused of. But I always thought that the prospects of bringing that brutal, outspoken politician to justice were remote indeed[...]

SHARE        Thursday, March 27, 2025
Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, Trump Seeks to Overthrow the Advances of the Twentieth Century During the 2024 election campaign, candidate Donald Trump's most controversial rally occurred at New York's Madison Square Garden. A comedian on the program referred to the island of Puerto Rico -- and by implication Puerto Ricans -- as garbage. He and the Trump campaign were rightfully pilloried and called out for his disgusting bigotry[...]

SHARE        Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, The War on Terror Comes Home in the Trump Era Four years ago, I published Subtle Tools, a book on the erosion of American democratic norms in the face of what came to be known as the Global War on Terror[...]

SHARE        Monday, March 24, 2025
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, On Not Going Gentle Allow me to stipulate that I do not wish to die. In fact, had anyone consulted me about the construction of the universe, I would have made my views on the subject quite clear: mortality is a terrible idea. I'm opposed to it in general[...]

SHARE        Thursday, March 20, 2025
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Trump First, America Last Yes, "shock and awe" is back in the second age of Donald Trump. His border czar, Tom Homan, used that very phrase to describe border policy from day one of the new administration and, whether the president has actually said it or not, it's now regularly in headlines, op-eds, and so much else. If you remember, it was the phrase used, in all its glory, to describe America's massive bombing and invasion of Iraq in 2003[...]

SHARE        Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Tomgram: William D. Hartung, A Manhattan Project for AI Weaponry? Alex Karp, the CEO of the controversial military tech firm Palantir, is the coauthor of a new book, The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West. In it, he calls for a renewed sense of national purpose and even greater cooperation between government and the tech sector. His book is, in fact, not just an account of how to spur technological innovation, but a distinctly ideological tract[...]

SHARE        Thursday, March 13, 2025
Tomgram: Nan Levinson, It Can't Happen Here (or Can It?) Not even two months since Inauguration Day and it's already been quite a trip. Ping-ponging between vindictive pettiness and unconstitutional overreach while using everything in his power (and much that isn't), Donald Trump has served up a goulash of dubious orders with a slathering of venom on top[...]

SHARE        Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Tomgram: Michael Gould-Wartofsky, Setting Up the Machinery of Mass Deportation "Flights to Guanta'namo Bay have begun. The worst of the worst have no place in our homeland." With those words the U.S. government announced the fate awaiting "criminal aliens" in its custody[...]

SHARE        Monday, March 10, 2025
Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Living in Red-Card America "It is pretty wild how you can make someone mad by just holding a sign," my 18-year-old Ro told me, as an irate driver peeled out of the intersection, shaking both his middle fingers at us but managing not to hit us. Phew![...]

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