No Kings, the Second Time Around
By Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch 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.…
A Potentially World-Ending President
(Though Who Even Notices?)
Remembrance of Wars Past
Why There Is No Massive Antiwar Movement in America.
Making War on Planet Earth: The Enemy Is Us
Can we humans stop making war on each other or preparing for yet more of the same and begin dealing with a planet heading to hell in a proverbial handbasket?
The Ultimate Twosome: Nukes and Climate Change in 2024
By Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch Honestly, what strange creatures we are. Nothing stops us when it comes to destruction, does it? (And I’m not even thinking about the utter, ongoing…
Living on a Smoke-Bomb of a Planet
September 11th, Climate-Change-Style.
Whose Planet Are We On?
What happens when LTAI (Less Than Artificial Intelligence) gives way to AI?
War, What Is It Good For?
The American experience of war since 1945 should have offered an all-too-obvious lesson for us, as well as for the planet’s other great powers, when it comes to the value…
McCarthyism, Then and Now
And the (True) One-Party State in America.
The Inflation and Deflation Stories of Our Lifetime (and No, They’re Not the Ones You Think!)
Why are the most crucial inflationary and deflationary stories of our time, maybe of all time, often buried?
The Biggest Criminal Enterprise in History
By Tom Engelhardt | TomDispatch Author’s note: I wrote this piece in May 2013, with a helping hand from the invaluable Nick Turse who came up with the word “terracide.”…
Will We Ever See Climate Change on the Ballot?
When I consider this planet, the only one we humans have (at least as yet), I find it all too unnerving that climate change didn’t make it into the midterms…