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The American Way of War, War, War

That title of mine is certainly repetitive of me (me, me), but how can you not be repetitive in the distinctly repeated world of Donald J. Trump...

02.07.2026 10

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Tom Engelhardt

If You Tried to Explain Crazy Old Man Trump Being President It Would Be Too Insane to Believe

If You Tried to Explain Crazy Old Man Trump Being President It Would Be Too Insane to Believe

The only way Common Dreams' people-powered media model can survive is with the support of readers like you. Will you become a sustaining monthly donor...

01.07.2026 4

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

Growing Old With Donald Trump

Yes, I’ve written about it before (and before that, too), but it still strikes me whenever… oh, sorry, this almost 82-year-old just nodded off...

30.06.2026 5

CounterPunch

Tom Engelhardt

Donald Trump: President of Endlessly Stupid Wars

Common Dreams is funded exclusively by readers tired of news beholden to corporate interests. Our monthly supporters are the backbone of what makes...

22.06.2026 10

Common Dreams

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Making War on Planet Earth, the Rest of Us, and Even Himself

I must admit that if, when I was 16 and John F. Kennedy won the presidency, you had tried to tell me about President (!!) Donald Trump (twice!!!), I...

18.06.2026 8

CounterPunch

Tom Engelhardt

A Climatic Presidency

What a planet! I only wish I could tell my grandfather about it. He arrived in this country, an immigrant from what’s now Ukraine, in March 1888 —...

16.06.2026 10

CounterPunch

Tom Engelhardt

Trump Is Already Telling Us He Will Steal the Midterms (If We Let Him)

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15.06.2026 10

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

Trump, Hegseth, and Hell on Earth

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15.06.2026 10

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

Reading the Times

Let me try to tell you what an old man I really am. As a start, imagine this: I still read the New York Times every day on paper. Yes, the paper New...

11.06.2026 10

CounterPunch

Tom Engelhardt

The more America spends on war, the worse it gets

The greatest military power in history hasn't managed to win a war since 1945. Doesn't that tell us something?

09.06.2026 8

Salon

Tom Engelhardt

War, What Is It Good For?

Historically speaking, consider it strange beyond compare. There may, in fact, be nothing like it in the imperial history of this planet. The United...

08.06.2026 9

CounterPunch

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What I’ve Learned From 25 Years of Covering the Global War on Terror

In his farewell column, Tom Engelhardt outlines how US imperialism came home in the form of Donald Trump.

06.06.2026 8

Truthout

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After Nearly 25 Years, I Sign Off... Wishing Trump Wasn't the Horrific Culmination of Our Disastrous 'War on Terror'

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04.06.2026 10

Common Dreams

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The President of Peace Makes War on the Planet

Hey, I always suspected that Donald Trump and I, having both grown up in New York City in the 1950s and early 1960s, had something in common. Now, I...

18.05.2026 10

CounterPunch

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Donald Trump Has Waged a War on... Everything

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18.05.2026 10

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World War III?

Unlike every other TomDispatch piece, this one won’t be broken up with section titles for a simple reason. It’s all about Donald J. Trump and when...

04.05.2026 10

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Earth-Destroying Trump and the Threat of World War III

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04.05.2026 10

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

The President of Ultimate Destruction

When he’s on full blast, Donald Trump (not so long ago the “drill, baby, drill” candidate for president) is distinctly a furnace. And he seems...

22.04.2026 10

CounterPunch

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'You Dirty Orange Maniac!': The President of Ultimate Destruction

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21.04.2026 20

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Living on a Dump-Truck (Oops, I Meant Trump) Planet

Honestly, I can’t believe I’m in this world of ours (or do I mean His?). Yes, this very one and no other! Almost a quarter of a century after, in...

30.03.2026 10

CounterPunch

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Will Nightmare Trump Take the Entire Planet Down With Him?

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30.03.2026 20

Common Dreams

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President-From-Hell Trump Brings Us Ever Closer to a Point of No Return

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02.03.2026 30

Common Dreams

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The President from Hell on One Hell of a Planet

I grew up with a vision of a possible instant apocalypse, inspired (if, under the circumstances, such a word can even be used) by the nuclear...

02.03.2026 30

CounterPunch

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The Apocalyptic President

Once upon a time, if you had described Donald Trump’s America to me (the second time around), I would have thought you mad as Alice in...

18.02.2026 40

CounterPunch

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President Trump Is an Apocalypse

We’re witnessing a full-scale collapse in the journalism industry at the very moment accountability is needed most. Common Dreams remains one of the...

17.02.2026 10

Common Dreams

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The Death of a Fascist Autocrat: On Pre-Writing Donald Trump's Obituary

29.01.2026 10

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Tom Engelhardt

D as in Donald and Decline

09.01.2026 50

The Nation

Tom Engelhardt

Trump Is Making US Imperial Decline the Whole World's Problem

05.01.2026 20

Common Dreams

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Trump, Faced With Global Armageddon, Does Everything He Can to Bring It On

11.12.2025 20

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

Trump: A Symptom of the End of the World?

19.11.2025 30

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Tom Engelhardt

No Kings, the Second Time Around

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...

28.10.2025 30

CounterPunch

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Americans Don't Want a King, But We May Be Getting One Anyway

27.10.2025 20

Common Dreams

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Trump, the Hell-on-Earth President, Has Made the United States Worse Than It's Ever Been

03.10.2025 30

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

Breaking: the Earth! So Where Are the Headlines?

09.09.2025 30

Common Dreams

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A Potentially World-Ending President

Imagine for a moment a nuclear weapon exploding over… well, you name it: Pakistan, India or, for that matter, Ukraine, Russia, or the United...

08.09.2025 20

CounterPunch

Tom Engelhardt

Trump: the Personification of the End of History?

22.08.2025 20

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

We Need a New Punctuation Mark to Catch the Essence of Trumpian Decline

01.08.2025 20

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

Donald Trump’s Greatest “Triumph”

Yes, he’s done quite a job so far and, in a way, it couldn’t be simpler to describe. Somehow, he’s managed to take the greatest looming threat...

16.07.2025 40

CounterPunch

Tom Engelhardt

Trump Planning to Destroy Planet

15.07.2025 20

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

No King’s Day Showed Trump’s Opponents We’re Not Alone

24.06.2025 30

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

Donald Trump: The Symbol of the Decline and Fall of Just About Everything

16.05.2025 20

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

The World According to Donald Trump

I remember the phrase from my boyhood, listening to baseball games on the old wooden radio by my bed. A major hitter would be up and — bang! —...

16.05.2025 30

CounterPunch

Tom Engelhardt

The Apocalyptic Don Takes a Hit out on the Earth

02.05.2025 20

Common Dreams

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Climate-Change Summer or Nuclear Winter?

Yes, give us human beings credit. In our relatively brief history, it’s no small thing to have come up with two different ways of thoroughly...

02.05.2025 30

CounterPunch

Tom Engelhardt

Trump's bankrupt empire

Donald Trump is not only President Bankrupt, but President Decline

09.04.2025 30

Salon

Tom Engelhardt

President Bankrupt

From childhood, I think I had some eerie sense of just how bad it could get in America. After all, in junior high and high school, I was riveted by...

09.04.2025 20

CounterPunch

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Donald J. Trump, President of Bankruptcy and Decline

08.04.2025 20

Common Dreams

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