Author: Tom Engelhardt

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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

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If you want a headline to set you back a little when it comes to our planet and our future, try this one from the British Guardian: “Global water crisis leaves half of world read more

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Count on one thing: Donald Trump wasn’t kidding. I’m thinking of the moment when he insisted that he would be a “dictator” on “day one” of his next term read more

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It hardly matters what day you check out which news report when it comes to Gaza or now Lebanon. Amid the accounts of chaos and further destruction, there are always the children, even if often hidden away in the odd paragraph somewhere in the piece. Take a typical read more

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The Empire Is Going Down But What Isn’t? By Tom Engelhardt

He’s the man of the hour (and you can choose your hour), win, lose, or draw. I mean, who can deny it? Certainly not the crowd at his debate with Kamala Harris that, as he reminded read more

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It doesn’t matter whether you’re talking about heat (staggering records continue to be set across the American West) or storms (Category 5 hurricane Milton just followed Category 4 hurricane Helene over the ever-hotter waters of the Gulf of Mexico and clobbered Florida).

If only, in terms of the weather, everything were indeed parenthetical. Sadly, if that was ever true, read more

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Yes, it’s hard even to remember (if you aren’t of a certain advanced age), but I grew up in a world where the two superpowers, the United States and Russia, both increasingly armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons and so unable to fight each other directly without the possibility of the planet going up in flames, engaged in what came to be known as a Cold War. Meanwhile, read more

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Consider this strange (or perhaps not strange enough): we’re now on a planet where, in late September, the temperature reached a record-breaking 117 read more

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Just in case you hadn’t noticed, Helene, the most recent hurricane to gain staggering strength by crossing the ever-warmer waters of the Gulf of Mexico, proved devastating not just to read more

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Give Donald Trump credit. He’s a genuine record-setter and no one can deny it. After all, he’s now the oldest candidate ever to run for president of the United States and, were he to win in November read more