After America
Alfred McCoy Tom Dispatch While Washington’s war with Iran drags on, month after month, without any end in sight, the world is witnessing the very real limits of U.S. global…
American “Micro-Militarism: Or How Defeat in the Iran War Will Accelerate American Global Decline
Alfred McCoy Writing more than 2,000 years ago, the Greek historian Plutarch gave us an eloquent description of what modern historians now call “micro-militarism.” When an imperial power like Athens…
Imperial Decline in the Straits of Hormuz
The Iran War as America’s Very Own Suez Crisis By Alfred McCoy for TomDispatch In the first chapter of his 1874 novel The Gilded Age, Mark Twain offered a telling…
Trump’s Foreign Policy, the Comic Book Edition
How to Read Scrooge McDuck in the Age of Donald Trump.
Ending the American Dream by 2029?
Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog in Trump's U.S.A.
Ozymandias on the Potomac
Energy Policy and the Politics of American Decline.
Alfred McCoy: A Dying American Empire, ‘Rotten to the Heart?’
How Trump is Demolishing U.S. Global Power and Its World Order
How ‘Tariff Man’ is Bringing Back the Gilded Age
America’s Cycles of Capitalist Excess and Social Reform.
Alfred McCoy: Fortress America
Trump’s Tricontinental Vision for a New World Order.
Alfred McCoy: Slouching Towards Mount McKinley
How Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy Is Ending the American Century.
Requiem for an Empire
How America’s Strongman Will Hasten the Decline of U.S. Global Power.
Powder Keg in the Pacific
How China’s Challenge Revived America’s Position in Asia and the Pacific.
What Does It Take to Destroy a World Order?
By Alfred McCoy / TomDispatch Once upon a time in America, we could all argue about whether or not U.S. global power was declining. Now, most observers have little doubt…
The American Empire in (Ultimate?) Crisis: The Decline and Fall of It All
By Alfred McCoy / TomDispatch Empires don’t just fall like toppled trees. Instead, they weaken slowly as a succession of crises drain their strength and confidence until they suddenly begin…