Tom Engelhardt: “Bride and Boom!”
We're Number One… In Obliterating Wedding Parties
Tom Engelhardt: Cold War II or World War III?
Déjà Vu All Over Again
What Will We Remember of 2022?
If you someday tell your grandchildren about this world of ours and what we’ve lived through, will the Pandemic of 2020-?? and the Climate Crisis of 1900-21?? be forgotten? I…
Tom Engelhardt: Surviving Another Year in This Disturbed Country of Ours
Happy new year? I don’t quite think so.
Welcome to the American Century
By Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch On February 17, 1941, less than 10 months before the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor and the U.S. found itself in a global war, Henry Luce,…
Droning On: Assassins-in-Chief and Their Brood
By Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch What a way to end a war! Apologies all around! We’re so damn sorry — or actually, maybe not! I’m thinking, of course, about CENTCOM…
What Really Matters in the US of A
The Decline and Fall of the Roman …whoops! … American Empire
Debt and Disillusionment: How College Is Like the Airplane Game
At many American colleges and universities, adjunct faculty members have become essential. So why don't they get their due in payment and benefits?
Moral Injury and the Forever Wars
Sobering facts some Americans don't want to hear about why so many members of the military are taking their own lives.
Is Our Failed Empire Heading for the Exit?
Could this country, which dumped trillions of taxpayer dollars into its forever wars, now perhaps be reclassified as a failing empire with a flailing military?
The Fires This Time: A Climate View from California
The situation is pretty dire: This state is now living through an epic drought.
An All-American Horror Story
Three-quarters of a century of nuclear follies — and that’s just for starters.
The American Century Ends Early
How the USS Enterprise was transformed into the USS Roach: Let’s face it, whether we fully grasp the fact or not, we now live in a system, as well as…
The Imperial Presidency Comes Home to Roost
The “costs” of our forever wars have come home imperially, believe it or not, in the very form of Grandpa Joe.
What If Trump Had Launched a Global War on Covid-19?
Imagine how differently history might have turned out if Donald J. Trump and George W. Bush had had opposite reactions.