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Alfred Mccoy

Alfred Mccoy

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How much worse will it get by 2029?

One year of President Donald J. Trump has brought trauma, failure and destruction. Ready for three more?

yesterday 30

Salon

Alfred Mccoy

Trump Is Effortlessly Destroying Washington’s International Influence

07.10.2025 3

The Nation

Alfred Mccoy

As the “Tariff Man,” Trump is creating the Second Gilded Age

Steep tariffs, record profits for billionaires, drastic income inequality — are we living in 1890?

30.07.2025 20

Salon

Alfred Mccoy

President Trump Is Demolishing America’s Global Soft Power

03.06.2025 5

The Nation

Alfred Mccoy

American soft power is evaporating in the Age of Trump

Even for our billionaire president, it’s never enough

28.05.2025 20

Salon

Alfred Mccoy

Trump’s Deranged Land Grabs Would Make Sense to Big Brother

17.04.2025 6

The Nation

Alfred Mccoy

Slouching toward Mount McKinley: Trump and the end of the American century

William McKinley seems obscure now — but the Trump team wants to bring back his Gilded Age imperialism

07.03.2025 40

Salon

Alfred Mccoy

Donald Trump’s Retrograde Worship Will Tank America’s Auto Industry

28.01.2025 2

The Nation

Alfred Mccoy

The Old World Order Is Dying. What New World Order Is Struggling to Be Born?

02.01.2025 4

The Nation

Alfred Mccoy

Requiem for an empire: How Trump's second term could reshape the world

Some 14 years ago, on Dec. 5, 2010, a historian writing for TomDispatch made a prediction that may yet prove prescient. Rejecting the consensus of...

01.12.2024 10

Salon

Alfred Mccoy

Trump's Second Presidency Will Only Accelerate America's Imperial Decline

21.11.2024 10

The Nation

Alfred Mccoy

The New Cold War in the Pacific Is Dangerously Close to Heating Up

18.10.2024 6

The Nation

Alfred Mccoy

Will climate change bring an end to America's world order?

Once upon a time in America, we could all argue about whether or not U.S. global power was declining. Now, most observers have little doubt that...

20.09.2024 1

Salon

Alfred Mccoy