Tom Engelhardt

Tom Engelhardt is a co-founder of the American Empire Project and the author of A Nation Unmade by War (Dispatch Books) and The United States of Fear as well as a history of the Cold War, The End of Victory Culture. He is a fellow of the Nation Institute and runs TomDispatch.com. His latest book is Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World. A fellow of the Type Media Center, his sixth and latest book is A Nation Unmade by War. Follow TomDispatch on Twitter at @TomDispatch

Climate Crisis

Trumped! The President of No Return on a Hothouse Planet

Tom Engelhardt

So, make that five or more flaming years of Trump working to shut down or at least endlessly stall

Climate Crisis

The Apocalyptic President: The Personification of an Imperial Power (and Planet) in Decline

Tom Engelhardt

Trump ran his second candidacy in 2024 on the all-too-bluntly apocalyptic slogan drill, baby, drill us into a literal hell on earth.

Climate Crisis

Reading Obituaries: And Murdering Time in the Age of Donald Trump

Tom Engelhardt

Mad hatter Trump is murdering time — at least, the time we humans have left to live reasonably decent lives on this planet

China

As Trump commits Climate Suicide with Dirty Energy, China Leads world in Renewables, EVs

Tom Engelhardt

China installed more wind turbines and solar panels than any other country, indeed more than the rest of the planet combined

Climate Crisis

Climate Breakdown: Each Child Today is being Born into a Slow-Motion Hiroshima

Tom Engelhardt

( Tomdispatch.com ) – What self-destructive creatures we turn out to be! Can you even believe it? Only recently, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP30, met in Brazil for two weeks. While 194 countries were represented there, the historically greatest fossil-fuelizer on the planet, Donald Trump’s United States, was, of course, missing in […]

Climate Crisis

Trump Luxuriates in Golden Ballroom Plans as Americans Scrimp By

Tom Engelhardt

( Tomdispatch.com ) – When I began TomDispatch in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and the invasion of Afghanistan, believe me, the world did not look good. But I guarantee you one thing: if you had told me then that, almost a quarter of a century later, the president of the United States would […]

Authoritarianism

King Trump: Golfing while Rome Burns

Tom Engelhardt

( Tomdispatch.com ) – 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. Or at least that’s what Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson insisted it was. Who knew that so unbelievably many Americans, millions of us […]

China

How Donald Trump Surrendered on Greentech to China Abroad and to Big Oil at Home

Tom Engelhardt

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Ours would be the normal story of imperial powers rising and falling on Planet Earth — nothing new there, of course — if it weren’t for one thing: the fact that this world, too, is now falling. Unfortunately, nothing is truly normal about this planet of ours anymore, as the slow-motion equivalent […]

Climate Crisis

Trump as a Slow-Motion Apocalypse

Tom Engelhardt

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Imagine for a moment a nuclear weapon exploding over… well, you name it: Pakistan, India or, for that matter, Ukraine, Russia, or the United States. I guarantee you one thing: the news headlines would be (and I use the word advisedly) explosive for days (weeks, months?) on end, assuming of course […]