Author: Tom Engelhardt

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I’m sure you won’t be surprised to learn that Donald Trump has said many remarkable (or rather remarkably off-the-wall) things. Still, the question “Is she Indian or is she Black?” and the idea that the presidential candidate who attended a historically Black college and joined a read more

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Imagine this: the second-richest man in the world — guess who! Yes, Elon Musk! — was reportedly planning to pump $45 million a month into a pro-Trump super PAC (though he read more

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The Candidate from Hell The Man of the Moment (And What a Moment It Is!) By Tom Engelhardt

Donald Trump is all too literally the candidate from hell and, yes, he’s threatening to take the United States and the world to — no place else! — hell and back. He’s the greatest danger to this planet imaginable. And I’m not even thinking about what else he’d do, were he to win election 2024 and return to the Oval Office, having read more

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What a planet we’re now on. Whether it’s days (the two hottest ever recorded, back to back), months (the read more

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I’m the grandson of a Jewish immigrant who arrived in New York City in the 1890s as a young man with — so the family story went — the equivalent of a German fifty-cent piece in his pocket. His son, my father, grew up in Brooklyn, so as a kid in the 1950s, when it came to baseball, I naturally rooted for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Had I, however, lived in Cleveland, I would read more

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Be depressed, very depressed.

When you read today’s piece by TomDispatch regular William Hartung and Hekmat Aboukhater, you’ll be reminded that, in the Biden years, the U.S. military has continued to focus on what’s all too strangely called the “modernization” read more

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Karen Greenberg first wrote for TomDispatch in January 2005. In that piece, she and a co-author had 37 grim questions (“Why was one of the first tasks of your administration finding a place — Guantánamo Bay — that was meant read more

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Recently, as TomDispatch regular John Feffer reminds us today, Vladimir Putin met with Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang, North Korea. And though no one mentioned it, there was, in fact, a missing participant in that meeting. I’m sure you know just whom I’m thinking of — the read more

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You couldn’t make these things up. I’m thinking about Oxfam’s recent 66-page report on Israel’s devastation of Gaza’s water supplies. As Julia Conley of Common Dreams reported, “Israel has systematically read more

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Like so many of us, you’ve probably been sweltering these last weeks in record-breaking temperatures across the (increasingly dis-)United States that were anything but typical of the world read more