Best of TomDispatch: Ann Jones, War Wounds
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.America’s Father’s Day was first celebrated on June 19, 1910, in Washington...
View ArticleTomgram: Alfred McCoy, Playing with Fire in Ukraine
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.As Alfred McCoy suggests today, we’re now in the latest version of a “cold war”...
View ArticleTomgram: John Feffer, A Last Supper for Humanity?
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.Yes, we’re at war. And no, I don’t mean Ukraine. The world is increasingly...
View ArticleTomgram: Rajan Menon, One War Too Many on Planet Earth
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.Consider two odd realities of the Ukraine war in this country. The first is that...
View ArticleTomgram: William Astore, Up in Arms and Armor in America
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.Consider this a rarity. In my introductions to TomDispatch pieces, I’ve seldom...
View ArticleTomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, The Right-Wing's Attempt to Militarize American...
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.Once upon a time, if you had told me about it, I would have thought you were...
View ArticleTomgram: Engelhardt, Life in Hell (Literally!)
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.Extreme LifeOr World War III (IV and V), Climate-StyleBy Tom EngelhardtIn recent...
View ArticleTomgram: William Hartung, Call It the National (In)security Budget
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.Yes, Afghanistan went down the drain and Washington’s global war on terror ended...
View ArticleTomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Back to the Future Again
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. How far are we? Who really knows? Let’s just say that we’re somewhere...
View ArticleTomgram: Andrew Bacevich, After the American Century
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.In my home in the early 1950s, we lived Life to the fullest (with the Saturday...
View ArticleTomgram: Frida Berrigan, Seeking a Salve for Heat, Hate, and Hysteria
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.If anything saved my life when I was young, it was books. Library books, to be...
View ArticleTomgram: Karen Greenberg, State of Disgrace in Washington
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.I doubt you’ll be shocked to discover that, in the years of the (first?) Trump...
View ArticleTomgram: Liz Theoharis, Dealing with a Christian Nationalist Movement
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.We’ve barely begun to experience the fallout from the Supreme Court’s disastrous...
View ArticleTomgram: William deBuys, Welcome to the Pyrocene
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.In case you hadn’t been paying attention, it’s hot on this planet. I mean,...
View ArticleTomgram: Michael Klare, Oil Rules the World
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.Heat, heat, heat. It’s a world of firsts, of records that no one could ever have...
View ArticleTomgram: William Astore, Pantophobia USA
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, we’ve been held for ransom by one man — or that’s...
View ArticleTomgram: Nina Burleigh, The Gilead Playbook
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.I was born into another world, a year before the end of the Second World War....
View ArticleTomgram: Stan Cox, Angry White Guys in Big-Ass Pickups
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.As gun sales in this country soar — another 43 million weapons bought in 2020...
View ArticleTomgram: Engelhardt, Is the Never-Ending Story Ending?
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.The Decline and Fall of Everything (Including Me)What Goes Up Must… Well, You...
View ArticleTomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.I still remember my parents singing the World War I-era song:“You’re in the Army...
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