Author: Tom Engelhardt

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In his second term in office, Donald Trump has had a few problems so far carrying out his promises to deport a zillion nonwhite immigrants. But give him credit. He did read more

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President Bankrupt And a Country (and World) Coming Apart at the Seams By Tom Engelhardt

From childhood, I think I had some eerie sense of just how bad it could get in America. After all, in junior high and high school, I was riveted by this country’s Civil War. Among all my toy soldiers — cowboys and Indians, British marching troops in red jackets, and plastic Army-green World War II soldiers (from my father’s war) — and those read more

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Let’s just say that, in America, whoever the president may be, war is a given. Only the other week, the media was filled with shocked tales of how the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic magazine read more

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In September 2007, retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and historian William Astore emailed me out of the blue. He’d been reading articles at TomDispatch, the website I set up soon after the 9/11 attacks to deal with this country’s Global War on Terror, especially the invasions of, and then never-ending conflicts in Afghanistan and later Iraq. As a former military read more

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What, I wonder, would Jackie Robinson have thought of an all-American world in which his story — essentially all trace of him — would be briefly wiped out at the Department of Defense read more

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NATO? What’s that? If you were to ask in Washington these days, you shouldn’t be surprised to hear that it’s actually the North American Treaty Organization or even the North American Trump Organization. Certainly, many in Europe who, not so very long ago, imagined the United States as their prime protector and benefactor are now facing a distinctly new world. Hey, there read more

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If it wasn’t so grim, it would almost be funny. Okay, the decision to remove the Black Vietnam-War-era Medal of Honor recipient, Major General Charles Calvin Rogers, from a Defense read more

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It’s strange to think that it was almost a quarter of a century ago when Osama bin Laden and crew launched those attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Looking back, horrific as they were (almost 3,000 people died), read more

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I want to say: When it comes to the Trump administration, it never ends, does it? But of course, it does end. In fact, these days, Trump and crew seem to have a knack for endings. You could even say that, in the age of You Know Who, death is preparing to become this country’s middle name. After all, we now know that the one government agency that actually provided read more

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Shock and Awe Making (Non)Sense of Donald Trump, or the Success of Failure By Tom Engelhardt

Yes, “shock and awe” is back in the second age of Donald Trump. His border czar, Tom Homan, used that very phrase to describe border policy from day one of the new administration and, read more