Author: Tom Engelhardt

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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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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

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Honestly, can you believe that Hamas’s devastating October 7th attack on Israel and that country’s initial military response to it occurred well over a year ago? Or that, for the last 14 months, the Gaza Strip — and it’s not called a “strip” for nothing, being only 25 miles long and, at most, seven miles wide — has become an all too literal hell on Earth? Only read more

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I’ve lived through 15 presidencies so far, from Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s (not that I would remember him, since I was born in July 1944, and he died in April 1945) to Joe Biden’s. The first president I remember was former World War II general Dwight D. Eisenhower (whose vice president, god save us all, was future Watergate President Richard Nixon). In fact, I can still read more

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At this moment, we’re less than a week away from… who knows what? Knowing only that the first Black woman — or, for that matter, woman — may enter the White House as president (she’s been there before, of course, as vice president) or that Disintegrating Donald, the guy who sounds read more

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Given what we know about this overheating planet of ours, a vote for Donald Trump, the “drill, baby, drill” candidate for president of the United States, read more