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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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Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, The United Surveillance States of America Sometime in the late 1980s, I was talking with a friend on my landline (the only kind of telephone we had then). We were discussing logistics for an upcoming demonstration against the Reagan administration's support for the Contras fighting the elected government of Nicaragua. We agreed that, when our call was done, I'd call another friend, "Mary," to update her on the plans. I hung up[...]
Tuesday, June 24, 2025Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, The United Surveillance States of America Sometime in the late 1980s, I was talking with a friend on my landline (the only kind of telephone we had then). We were discussing logistics for an upcoming demonstration against the Reagan administration's support for the Contras fighting the elected government of Nicaragua. We agreed that, when our call was done, I'd call another friend, "Mary," to update her on the plans. I hung up[...]
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Monday, June 23, 2025
Tomgram: Engelhardt, King Trump How strange. I've been going to demonstrations for a long, long while now. I began once upon a distant time in opposition to the nightmarish all-American war in Vietnam. And almost 60 years later, that war, in some sense, has come home[...]
Monday, June 23, 2025Tomgram: Engelhardt, King Trump How strange. I've been going to demonstrations for a long, long while now. I began once upon a distant time in opposition to the nightmarish all-American war in Vietnam. And almost 60 years later, that war, in some sense, has come home[...]
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Thursday, June 19, 2025
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Is Donald Trump America's King Canute? He lived over 1,000 years ago, but King Canute's life still has some important lessons for our own time. After conquering England, Denmark, Norway, and part of Sweden, he forged a vast North Sea empire that made him, by the year 1030, the greatest of all the Viking kings[...]
Thursday, June 19, 2025Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Is Donald Trump America's King Canute? He lived over 1,000 years ago, but King Canute's life still has some important lessons for our own time. After conquering England, Denmark, Norway, and part of Sweden, he forged a vast North Sea empire that made him, by the year 1030, the greatest of all the Viking kings[...]
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Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Tomgram: David Vine, Some Good News! (Mostly.) At a time when many may feel that good news has gone the way of the dodo, look no further than the homeland of that long-extinct bird -- Mauritius -- for a dose of encouragement. There, among the islands of the Indian Ocean, news can be found about the power of resistance and the ability of small groups of people to band together to overcome the powerful[...]
Tuesday, June 17, 2025Tomgram: David Vine, Some Good News! (Mostly.) At a time when many may feel that good news has gone the way of the dodo, look no further than the homeland of that long-extinct bird -- Mauritius -- for a dose of encouragement. There, among the islands of the Indian Ocean, news can be found about the power of resistance and the ability of small groups of people to band together to overcome the powerful[...]
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Monday, June 16, 2025
Tomgram: John Feffer, Navigating the New "Normal" in 2029 "We're back," I tell the room. It's January 21, 2029, and I can barely contain my excitement. "America is back!" I expect applause, but there is none[...]
Monday, June 16, 2025Tomgram: John Feffer, Navigating the New "Normal" in 2029 "We're back," I tell the room. It's January 21, 2029, and I can barely contain my excitement. "America is back!" I expect applause, but there is none[...]
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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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