Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, America Terrorized
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.As most of you know, I’m an old guy who still reads the paper New York Times...
View ArticleTomgram: William Astore, Living Through Coronavirus Hard Times
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.I often imagine somehow summoning my mother and father (who died in 1977 and...
View ArticleTomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Feminism in the Time of Coronavirus
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.Let me state the obvious: Right now, we could hardly be in a more unsettled...
View ArticleTomgram: Michael Klare, What Planet Are We On?
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.In case you hadn’t noticed, the exploding coronavirus pandemic (we’re #1!) has...
View ArticleTomgram: Nomi Prins, An All-American Urge to Offer Corporate Welfare
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.You know how, every now and then, something just crystalizes everything for you?...
View ArticleTomgram: Karen Greenberg, A Victory Parade in the Coronavirus Moment
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.Think of Donald Trump as a revolutionary when it comes to the alphabet. How many...
View ArticleTomgram: Danny Sjursen, Trump's Own Military Mafia
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.I’m sure you still remember them. The president regularly called them “my...
View ArticleTomgram: Rajan Menon, Living on a Pandemic Planet
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.Everything worries us in these desperate coronaviral days of ours. If, however,...
View ArticleTomgram: Engelhardt, Might the Coronavirus Be a Peacemaker?
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.History Is More or Less BunkThe Light at the End of the Tunnel? By Tom...
View ArticleTomgram: John Feffer, Trump Rex
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.At maybe age 13, I can remember reading H.G. Wells’s War of the Worlds, his...
View ArticleTomgram: Rebecca Gordon, (Un)Reality TV, 2020-Style
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.He hosted 14 seasons of The Apprentice and its successor, The Celebrity...
View ArticleTomgram: Liz Theoharis, Circling the Ruins
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.So here’s a basic dose of President Trump: On April 14th, he met with a group of...
View ArticleTomgram: Robert Lipsyte, No Football, No Trump
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.My dad came from Brooklyn, which meant I was a Brooklyn Dodgers fan from the...
View ArticleTomgram: Dilip Hiro, The Coronavirus Chronology From Hell
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.It was the wars I noticed first and, in those years, made the heart of...
View ArticleTomgram: Michael Klare, A Silver Lining in the Global Pandemic
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.In case you hadn’t noticed -- and it would have been hard to miss -- for the...
View ArticleTomgram: Engelhardt, The Assassin-in-Chief Comes Home
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.Murder, He SaidThe Killer-in-Chief By Tom Engelhardt“Be assured of one thing:...
View ArticleTomgram: Mandy Smithberger, Bailing Out the War State
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.In this century, the war-fighting performance of the U.S. military has proven...
View ArticleTomgram: Andrew Bacevich, A Greatest Generation We Are Not
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.There was certainly a hint that the previous century was not going to unfold in...
View ArticleTomgram: Ann Jones, Getting Trumped by Covid-19
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.The greatest American stories have always been fictions. I mean this both...
View ArticleTomgram: Belle Chesler, Teaching Across an Abyss of Silence
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.Somehow, it seemed apt to do a different kind of introduction today to...
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