Author: Tom Engelhardt

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If you want a photo that perfectly catches this moment in what TomDispatch regular Karen Greenberg now calls Trumpland, try read more

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Honestly, you couldn’t have made it up, could you? I’m thinking about an American president intent on ensuring that Planet Earth will indeed burn to a crisp. And, of course, you know exactly who I mean and he’s made no secret of it, has he? After all, he ran for a second term in office by read more

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A World in Trumple Deep
(And We Are All His Apprentices Now)

By Tom Engelhardt

Unlike every other TomDispatch piece, this one won’t be broken up with section titles for a simple reason. It’s all about Donald J. Trump and when it comes to him, in this strange world of ours, no one ever really gets a break.

In that context, here’s my advice to you: Don’t get old. For years, I managed not read more

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Here’s a question for you: in addition to wiping out the East Wing of the White House to build his future ballroom and so much more, including the construction of a read more

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Yes, how truly (truly!) strange. I must admit that when President George W. Bush announced the launching of what he all too bluntly came to call “the Global War on Terror,” or GWOT, in response to read more

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Consider the change remarkable in its own fashion. The “President of PEACE” in his first term in office has distinctly become the President of WAR the second time around, whether in the read more

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My life began in wartime — World War II — and, if Donald Trump has anything to say about it, will evidently end in war, too. The president who, as advertised, didn’t go to war in his first term in office, also read more

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“You Dirty ORANGE Maniac! You Blew It All Up! Damn You to Hell!”
The President of Ultimate Destruction

By Tom Engelhardt

When he’s on full blast, Donald Trump (not so long ago the “drill, read more

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TomDispatch authors don’t usually have much in common with Donald J. Trump, but here’s an exception. TomDispatch regular Liz Theoharis recently visited the Supreme Court to hear a case on immigrant asylum that her organization, the Kairos Center, was involved read more

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I have to admit that it couldn’t be stranger (or, given this country’s history in my lifetime, do I mean less strange?) to be facing yet another all-American war, this time in Iran, fiercely read more