Author: Tom Engelhardt

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[Un]Happy New Year Trump Two Is a Formula for… Yes!… Hell on Earth By Tom Engelhardt

Honestly, as 2025 begins, isn’t it finally time to reimagine American history? So, what do you think of this: George Trump, Abraham Trump, Ulysses S. Trump, Franklin D. Trump, Dwight D. Trump, John F. Trump, Lyndon B. Trump, and even Richard M. and George W. Trump. And yes, of course, on January 20th, Donald J. Trump (of all people) will once again be president of these distinctly read more

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In retrospect, I can understand the shock of the 9/11 attacks more fully. Back then, a decade after the fall of the Soviet Union and before the rise of China, when the U.S. seemed the singular imperial power on Planet Earth, that anyone — yes, anyone! — would dare assault not just the American homeland but the symbolic heartland of its economic power (the World read more

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All too often, the world is not what we think it is. Only recently, David Leonhardt of the New York Times reported that (and yes, be shocked!) never have more immigrants arrived in this country than read more

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Honestly, here’s my best guess: we’re simply on the wrong planet. After all, as TomDispatch regular Michael Klare makes clear today, in the next set of Trump years, the U.S. and China are likely to face off in a major way — just how major, given the unpredictability of You read more

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Here we are in December 2024 and there can be little doubt that this year will be the warmest in human history. It also stands a more than reasonable chance of read more

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In the 2024 election, Kamala Harris lost Democratic voters, including in Black and Hispanic communities. As a result, we now face a four-year replay of Trumpmania. Worse yet, only recently, read more

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Yes, in October 2001, less than a month after the 9/11 attacks, the war in Afghanistan began. It would, after a fashion, prove to be a disastrous repeat of the Soviet war there in the 1980s (which the CIA did so much to make far worse). And from that moment on, this country’s war-making only ramped up horrifically for what seemed like endless years.

It’s a story that TomDispatch read more

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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