Author: Tom Engelhardt

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Yes, the election that put Donald Trump back in the White House was a close one indeed. After all, he didn’t even win 50% of the vote. Of course — no surprise here — he read more

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Trumped
Going to Hell in a “Drill, Baby, Drill” Handbasket

By Tom Engelhardt

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 read more

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Imagine this: at the moment I was writing this introduction, Donald (“grab ’em by the pussy“) Trump read more

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You wouldn’t know it anymore, but Donald Trump’s grandparents and mother were immigrants, as were two of his wives. And imagine this: if they all had arrived here early in 2025, just as their son or grandson read more

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Let’s try to put recent political events in this country in perspective — if, that is, perspective is even a concept when it comes to Elon Musk and the word “billion,” no less “billionaire,” or the very idea of “the world’s wealthiest person” being, no surprise at all, Donald Trump’s big-money pal and (according to him, at least) “ read more

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Count on one thing: On January 20, 2025, we will indeed find ourselves in a new world. And that new world won’t, I suspect, be all that familiar even to those of us who lived through the previous version of it from January 20, 2017, to perhaps read more

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Here’s how Harry Litman, a former Justice Department official, put it recently: “He’s erratic and has the attention span of a 7-year-old. But his thirst for revenge against those he views as his read more

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I live in New York City, which is now (like much of this country) in a drought. In fact, this October was the read more

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Yes, Donald Trump was perfectly free to speak his mind in that interview with Fox’s Maria Bartiromo on October 13th, and here’s what he said in response to read more

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2084
The World as It Might Be (Or Do I Mean Might Have Been?)

By Tom Engelhardt

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?

And yes, in case you think that, as in his novel read more