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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 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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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[...]
Thursday, April 24, 2025Tomgram: 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[...]
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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 [...]
Tuesday, April 22, 2025Tomgram: 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 [...]
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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[...]"
Monday, April 21, 2025Tomgram: 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[...]"
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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[...]"
Thursday, April 17, 2025Tomgram: 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[...]"
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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[...]
Tuesday, April 15, 2025Tomgram: 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[...]
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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,"[...]
Monday, April 14, 2025Tomgram: 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,"[...]
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