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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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Sunday, December 15, 2024
Tomgram: Joshua Frank, An Unjust Transition? Like many roads that cut through Wyoming, the highway into the town of Rawlins is a long, winding one surrounded by rolling hills, barbed wire fences, and cattle ranches. I'd traveled this stretch of Wyoming many times. Once during a dangerous blizzard, another time during a car-rattling thunderstorm, the rain so heavy my windshield wipers couldn't keep pace with the deluge[...]
Sunday, December 15, 2024Tomgram: Joshua Frank, An Unjust Transition? Like many roads that cut through Wyoming, the highway into the town of Rawlins is a long, winding one surrounded by rolling hills, barbed wire fences, and cattle ranches. I'd traveled this stretch of Wyoming many times. Once during a dangerous blizzard, another time during a car-rattling thunderstorm, the rain so heavy my windshield wipers couldn't keep pace with the deluge[...]
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Thursday, December 12, 2024
Tomgram: John Feffer, Why Liberals Will Give Two Cheers for Trump Liberals hate Trump, no question about it. He's the definition of illiberal: authoritarian, racist, sexist, and downright nasty. Not only that, he's a living repudiation of the liberal delusion that America runs on meritocracy[...]
Thursday, December 12, 2024Tomgram: John Feffer, Why Liberals Will Give Two Cheers for Trump Liberals hate Trump, no question about it. He's the definition of illiberal: authoritarian, racist, sexist, and downright nasty. Not only that, he's a living repudiation of the liberal delusion that America runs on meritocracy[...]
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Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Broken Heart Syndrome in Trump's America In the early 1990s, doctors in Hiroshima, Japan, discovered a stress-induced syndrome they called Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, or "broken heart syndrome" -- a condition in which the heart's left ventricle, responsible for pumping blood, loses its capacity in response to extreme stressors like war, natural disaster, and the loss of loved ones. Prevalent among older women, that acute condition involves heart attack-like symptoms...
Tuesday, December 10, 2024Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Broken Heart Syndrome in Trump's America In the early 1990s, doctors in Hiroshima, Japan, discovered a stress-induced syndrome they called Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, or "broken heart syndrome" -- a condition in which the heart's left ventricle, responsible for pumping blood, loses its capacity in response to extreme stressors like war, natural disaster, and the loss of loved ones. Prevalent among older women, that acute condition involves heart attack-like symptoms...
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Thursday, December 5, 2024
Tomgram: Ira Chernus, The Strongman Approach Count on one thing: the next four years are going to be tough. If you can muster the energy for political action while Donald Trump and his minions rule Washington, it will have to be channeled in two ways: first, resisting the worst excesses of him (and his party of billionaires); and second, keeping up the effort to make life truly better for everyone, especially the most vulnerable among us[...]
Thursday, December 5, 2024Tomgram: Ira Chernus, The Strongman Approach Count on one thing: the next four years are going to be tough. If you can muster the energy for political action while Donald Trump and his minions rule Washington, it will have to be channeled in two ways: first, resisting the worst excesses of him (and his party of billionaires); and second, keeping up the effort to make life truly better for everyone, especially the most vulnerable among us[...]
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Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Donald Trump's Last Bankruptcy (Us) Give him credit. As a start, for that first surprise victory in 2016. No, I didn't fully get it at the time, but I kind of get it now (since, like the rest of us, I've lived through it all, including his close loss in 2020). Still, twice? Him? A convicted felon, no less! And yes, I do think italics are all too appropriate under the circumstances[...]
Tuesday, December 3, 2024Tomgram: Engelhardt, Donald Trump's Last Bankruptcy (Us) Give him credit. As a start, for that first surprise victory in 2016. No, I didn't fully get it at the time, but I kind of get it now (since, like the rest of us, I've lived through it all, including his close loss in 2020). Still, twice? Him? A convicted felon, no less! And yes, I do think italics are all too appropriate under the circumstances[...]
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Monday, December 2, 2024
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Woman, Man, Fish, Bicycle "I never realized before that men hate us so much." That was the lesson drawn by one of my fellow organizers in Reno, Nevada, the morning after the 2024 general election. She'd turned 21 during the campaign, a three-month marathon she approached as a daily opportunity to learn as much as she could about everything she encountered. "Of course, they hate immigrants, too," she added, "and I'm both[...]"
Monday, December 2, 2024Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Woman, Man, Fish, Bicycle "I never realized before that men hate us so much." That was the lesson drawn by one of my fellow organizers in Reno, Nevada, the morning after the 2024 general election. She'd turned 21 during the campaign, a three-month marathon she approached as a daily opportunity to learn as much as she could about everything she encountered. "Of course, they hate immigrants, too," she added, "and I'm both[...]"
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Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Tomgram: Arnold Isaacs, With Trump's Return, Truth Is in Deadly Danger During this year's presidential election campaign, I was puzzled and increasingly troubled that the issue of truth-telling -- and the spectacular lack of it from one candidate -- wasn't getting the sort of focus or emphasis in the news coverage it should have received. We heard or read about Donald Trump's specific false statements just about every day (because they happened just about every day)[...]
Tuesday, November 26, 2024Tomgram: Arnold Isaacs, With Trump's Return, Truth Is in Deadly Danger During this year's presidential election campaign, I was puzzled and increasingly troubled that the issue of truth-telling -- and the spectacular lack of it from one candidate -- wasn't getting the sort of focus or emphasis in the news coverage it should have received. We heard or read about Donald Trump's specific false statements just about every day (because they happened just about every day)[...]
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Monday, November 25, 2024
Tomgram: Liz Theoharis and Shailly Barnes, Trump 2.0 "If they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?" (Luke 23:31) Before November 5th, millions of us were already struggling with poverty, extreme storms, immigration nightmares, anti-trans bills, criminalized reproductive health, the demolition of homeless encampments, the silencing of freedom of speech on campuses" and, of course, the list only goes on and on[...]
Monday, November 25, 2024Tomgram: Liz Theoharis and Shailly Barnes, Trump 2.0 "If they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?" (Luke 23:31) Before November 5th, millions of us were already struggling with poverty, extreme storms, immigration nightmares, anti-trans bills, criminalized reproductive health, the demolition of homeless encampments, the silencing of freedom of speech on campuses" and, of course, the list only goes on and on[...]
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Thursday, November 21, 2024
Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, One Last Thing, America! My inbox is full of lament (and encouragement). My Instagram feed is full of anger and "the arc of the moral universe bends slow but-- My Facebook brims with exhortations to focus on the positive, on what we can control, on the next fight[...]
Thursday, November 21, 2024Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, One Last Thing, America! My inbox is full of lament (and encouragement). My Instagram feed is full of anger and "the arc of the moral universe bends slow but-- My Facebook brims with exhortations to focus on the positive, on what we can control, on the next fight[...]
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Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, The Rise of Trump, the Fall of Imperial America Some 15 years ago, on December 5, 2010, a historian writing for TomDispatch made a prediction that may yet prove prescient. Rejecting the consensus of that moment that U.S. global hegemony would persist to 2040 or 2050, he argued that "the demise of the United States as the global superpower could come" in 2025, just 15 years from now[...]"
Tuesday, November 19, 2024Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, The Rise of Trump, the Fall of Imperial America Some 15 years ago, on December 5, 2010, a historian writing for TomDispatch made a prediction that may yet prove prescient. Rejecting the consensus of that moment that U.S. global hegemony would persist to 2040 or 2050, he argued that "the demise of the United States as the global superpower could come" in 2025, just 15 years from now[...]"
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Monday, November 18, 2024
Tomgram: William Hartung, The Trump Conundrum When the election results came in on November 4th, I felt a pain in the pit of my stomach, similar to what I experienced when Ronald Reagan rode to power in 1980, or with George W. Bush's tainted victory over Al Gore in 2000. After some grieving, the first question that came to my mind was: What will a Trump presidency mean for the movements for peace and social justice?[...]
Monday, November 18, 2024Tomgram: William Hartung, The Trump Conundrum When the election results came in on November 4th, I felt a pain in the pit of my stomach, similar to what I experienced when Ronald Reagan rode to power in 1980, or with George W. Bush's tainted victory over Al Gore in 2000. After some grieving, the first question that came to my mind was: What will a Trump presidency mean for the movements for peace and social justice?[...]
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Thursday, November 14, 2024
Tomgram: Nan Levinson, The First Amendment in the Age of Trump I thought I was done with free speech. For nearly two decades, I reported on it for the international magazine Index on Censorship. I wrote a book, Outspoken: Free Speech Stories, about controversies over it[...]
Thursday, November 14, 2024Tomgram: Nan Levinson, The First Amendment in the Age of Trump I thought I was done with free speech. For nearly two decades, I reported on it for the international magazine Index on Censorship. I wrote a book, Outspoken: Free Speech Stories, about controversies over it[...]
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Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Creating a Genuine Hell on Earth? Honestly, what would George Orwell have written about this planet of ours, four decades after that ominous year 1984 passed from his fiction into history?[...]
Tuesday, November 12, 2024Tomgram: Engelhardt, Creating a Genuine Hell on Earth? Honestly, what would George Orwell have written about this planet of ours, four decades after that ominous year 1984 passed from his fiction into history?[...]
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Monday, November 11, 2024
Tomgram: Juan Cole, Pax Americana? Not a Chance! President Joe Biden has now joined the ranks of Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush as a president whose Middle East policy crashed and burned spectacularly. Unlike Carter, who was stymied by the Iranian hostage crisis, or Bush, who faced a popular Iraqi resistance movement, Biden's woes weren't inflicted by an enemy[...]
Monday, November 11, 2024Tomgram: Juan Cole, Pax Americana? Not a Chance! President Joe Biden has now joined the ranks of Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush as a president whose Middle East policy crashed and burned spectacularly. Unlike Carter, who was stymied by the Iranian hostage crisis, or Bush, who faced a popular Iraqi resistance movement, Biden's woes weren't inflicted by an enemy[...]
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Thursday, November 7, 2024
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, A New Age of Presidential Unilaterism? As the dust settles over election day, it's worth reflecting that it's not only the election results that have been at stake, but the future of the presidency and its powers. Over the course of the first quarter of this century, the American presidency has accumulated ever more power, rendering the office increasingly less constrained by either Congress or the courts[...]
Thursday, November 7, 2024Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, A New Age of Presidential Unilaterism? As the dust settles over election day, it's worth reflecting that it's not only the election results that have been at stake, but the future of the presidency and its powers. Over the course of the first quarter of this century, the American presidency has accumulated ever more power, rendering the office increasingly less constrained by either Congress or the courts[...]
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Thursday, October 31, 2024
Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, The Black-Lives-(Don't)-Matter President Donald Trump was the worst president for Black people in the modern era, if not the nation's history. Given a life of unremitting racial animus, under no circumstances should he receive a single vote from the Black community or other communities of color. After all, he's never moderated his white nationalist sentiments and count on this: he never will[...]
Thursday, October 31, 2024Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, The Black-Lives-(Don't)-Matter President Donald Trump was the worst president for Black people in the modern era, if not the nation's history. Given a life of unremitting racial animus, under no circumstances should he receive a single vote from the Black community or other communities of color. After all, he's never moderated his white nationalist sentiments and count on this: he never will[...]
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Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Tomgram: Bob Dreyfuss, Deciding Election 2024 If you're like many of my friends, I know what you're thinking: OMG, how is it even possible that half the country is going to vote for that guy? And there's a slightly less common corollary to that: I mean, really, who are these people who say that they're undecided? Who doesn't know enough to know which way they're going to vote?[...]
Tuesday, October 29, 2024Tomgram: Bob Dreyfuss, Deciding Election 2024 If you're like many of my friends, I know what you're thinking: OMG, how is it even possible that half the country is going to vote for that guy? And there's a slightly less common corollary to that: I mean, really, who are these people who say that they're undecided? Who doesn't know enough to know which way they're going to vote?[...]
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Monday, October 28, 2024
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, The All-American Ravages of Extreme Weather Images of homes that collapsed under mudslides or falling trees, waterlogged farms, and debris-filled roads drove home (yes, home!) to me recently the impact of Hurricane Helene on rural areas in the southeastern United States. That hurricane and the no-less-devastating Hurricane Milton that followed it only exacerbated already existing underlying problems for rural America[...]
Monday, October 28, 2024Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, The All-American Ravages of Extreme Weather Images of homes that collapsed under mudslides or falling trees, waterlogged farms, and debris-filled roads drove home (yes, home!) to me recently the impact of Hurricane Helene on rural areas in the southeastern United States. That hurricane and the no-less-devastating Hurricane Milton that followed it only exacerbated already existing underlying problems for rural America[...]
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Thursday, October 24, 2024
Tomgram: Stan Cox, The Growing Danger of Being a Climate Protester In August, climate activist and cellist John Mark Rozendaal was arrested and charged with criminal contempt for playing a few minutes of Bach outside Citibank's headquarters in New York City. Rozendaal, 63, was prominent in the "Summer of Heat on Wall Street" campaign that targeted Citibank for its prolific financing of fossil-fuel projects. He and a co-defendant now face up to seven years imprisonment if convicted[...]
Thursday, October 24, 2024Tomgram: Stan Cox, The Growing Danger of Being a Climate Protester In August, climate activist and cellist John Mark Rozendaal was arrested and charged with criminal contempt for playing a few minutes of Bach outside Citibank's headquarters in New York City. Rozendaal, 63, was prominent in the "Summer of Heat on Wall Street" campaign that targeted Citibank for its prolific financing of fossil-fuel projects. He and a co-defendant now face up to seven years imprisonment if convicted[...]
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Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Tomgram: Nick Turse, The Global War on Children "War is not healthy for children and other living things," reads a poster titled "Primer" created by the late artist Lorraine Schneider for an art show at New York's Pratt Institute in 1965. Printed in childlike lowercase letters, the words interspersed between the leaves of a simply rendered sunflower, it was an early response to America's war in Vietnam[...]
Tuesday, October 22, 2024Tomgram: Nick Turse, The Global War on Children "War is not healthy for children and other living things," reads a poster titled "Primer" created by the late artist Lorraine Schneider for an art show at New York's Pratt Institute in 1965. Printed in childlike lowercase letters, the words interspersed between the leaves of a simply rendered sunflower, it was an early response to America's war in Vietnam[...]
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