Author: Tom Engelhardt

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Veterans? Who are they? And how in the world did they get a “day”? After all, here’s a curious fact: since World War II ended in victory, the United States, often seen as the greatest power on planet Earth, has indeed fought a seemingly endless series of wars from Korea and Vietnam in the last century to Afghanistan and Iraq in this one (and all sorts of more minor conflicts read more

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Let me just say that, when this 81-year-old protester marched through the streets of New York City in the recent No Kings rally, I noted demonstrators of all ages, including children and babies in strollers. Still, I thought the crowd as a whole — and I not only walked from 47th read more

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At some level, it’s hard to even believe what’s happening on this planet. Sections of the island of Jamaica have just been devastated by an almost unimaginably powerful hurricane, thanks read more

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Had you told me about this world of ours when I was younger, I wouldn’t have believed you. Of course, as a boy, I did live through Joe McCarthy, the Trump of his moment. However, while he had the power to destroy individual careers and lives, being only a senator, he couldn’t destroy read more

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It never seems to end, does it? There’s always another boat in the Caribbean (not to mention read more

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Honestly, who could believe it, if — that is — we weren’t actually living through it? And maybe even then?

I mean, once upon a time, Donald Trump would have been unimaginable as president (or do I mean king, emperor, or simply madman?) of the United States. Hey, you know, the guy who can read more

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No Kings, the Second Time Around
Or Golfing While Rome Burns

By Tom Engelhardt

Yes, in the ever more ominously unsettled (dis-)United States of Donald J. Trump, I recently went to the “hate America” rally in New York City. Or at least that’s what Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives read more

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As readers of TomDispatch may remember, my mother, Irma Selz, was a professional caricaturist who drew for many of the newspapers and magazines of her time, ranging from read more

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Let me quote Ari Shapiro of NPR interviewing the New Yorker‘s David Kirkpatrick, who read more

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He couldn’t have been blunter, could he? When President Donald Trump recently addressed the U.N. General Assembly for 15 minutes (whoops! I mean almost an hour!), he dismissed climate change as the “greatest read more