Donald Trump Knew Us Better Than We Knew Ourselves
Now that Trump's been defeated, count on one thing: he’ll take as much of this country with him as he can.
Reclaiming American Idealism
Why we could use a leader like George McGovern again
We’ve Been on Trump’s Road for a Long, Long Time
Beyond Our Control: The author's first book, about the mid-1970s, describes a moment eerily reminiscent of today's American reality.
Trump’s Regime Is Getting Deadlier By the Day
It’s worth going through the president's methods of murder in what has become a pernicious regime in ways even he didn't anticipate.
American Carnage From a Pandemic President
Think of the U.S. as potentially the most powerful, wealthiest failed state on the planet.
The Invasion of America
We Americans, the greatest power in history, the ultimate unchallenged victors on this planet as the last century ended, are now living in a disease-ridden parody version of occupied Iraq…
A Speech to the Class of 2020: You Didn’t Deserve This
How the roof fell in, a graduation speech for an age of collapse
So Long to American Exceptionalism
in Donald Trump’s America, we’re inside the community of nations in a grim new way: as fellow patients, grievers, and supplicants in search of food and shelter, along with so…
In the Classroom that Zoom Built
Consider the deep 'missingness' that teacher Belle Chesler has found in a public-school world that has collapsed into a Zoom heap amid the deep inequality and unfairness of a system…
Celebrated to Death: Reflections on the War in Afghanistan
Former infantry officer and Army Ranger Erik Edstrom, author of a new book on the U.S. war in Afghanistan, has had time to reconsider his own combat experience there. He…
Ann Jones: Getting Trumped by Covid-19
As the coronavirus runs wild in Donald Trump’s America, veteran journalist and humanitarian Ann Jones offered a vivid analysis of how two countries, Norway and the U.S., dealt with it…
Andrew Bacevich: A Greatest Generation We Are Not
We’re two decades into a new century, one in which the U.S. has been fighting a series of wars that won’t end and in which this country has only recently…
Tom Engelhardt: ‘The Killer-in-Chief’
Historically speaking, killing Afghans or Iraqis or Syrians or Yemenis or Somalis has always been one thing, but Americans? That’s another story entirely, no? As it happens, the answer is…