Author: Tom Engelhardt

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As TomDispatch regular Juan Cole (whose Informed Comment website is a daily must-read) reminds us, wherever Donald Trump lands — in this country or just about read more

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In the age of Donald Trump, the very phrase “human rights” no longer seems to make sense and obviously needs to be changed. My own suggestion — given everything the Trump administration is doing when it comes to migrants, no less Americans who don’t happen to be White or male — might read more

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If we aren’t in a new Gilded Age, what are we in? After all, we now have an administration with no less than 13 billionaires in it, including the richest man on planet Earth (as well, of course, as President Donald J. Trump)! Together, they read more

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Hey, this doesn’t happen every day at TomDispatch! In my introduction to TD pieces, I usually focus on developing events on this strange planet of ours, but today let me focus instead on Greg Grandin’s latest book, America, read more

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Even in retrospect, it seems inconceivable. Yes, you may still not believe it but the Trump administration recently chartered yet another flight for immigrants, except this one wasn’t leaving the country, heading for a prison in read more

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I wonder if, in Donald Trump’s America, the very word “immigrant” should be changed to something like “ex-migrant.” The latest news, as I wrote this introduction, was that deporting immigrants to Venezuela, El Salvador, Panama, and other places in Central America wasn’t faintly enough for the Trump administration. It was instead planning to deport a group of Asian read more

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Going, Going, Gone!
The World According to Donald Trump

By Tom Engelhardt

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 read more

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Here’s a tough and obscure question that recently proved challenging for President Donald J. Trump: when asked during an NBC News “Meet the Press” interview whether he believed read more

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I’ll bet you didn’t even know that this country built not only the Panama Canal, which we certainly deserve back for the effort, but the Suez Canal, too! Certainly, the least we deserve — the very least! — is free read more

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Washington’s latest war (now on pause) — the one in Yemen against the Houthis — was hardly noticeable here. Or rather it would have been barely noticeable if Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth read more