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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 5

CounterPunch

Tom Engelhardt

Will Nightmare Trump Take the Entire Planet Down With Him?

Will Nightmare Trump Take the Entire Planet Down With Him?

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30.03.2026 9

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

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

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02.03.2026 20

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

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 10

CounterPunch

Tom Engelhardt

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 30

CounterPunch

Tom Engelhardt

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 8

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

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

29.01.2026 8

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

D as in Donald and Decline

09.01.2026 40

The Nation

Tom Engelhardt

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

05.01.2026 10

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

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

11.12.2025 10

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

Trump: A Symptom of the End of the World?

19.11.2025 10

Common Dreams

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 10

CounterPunch

Tom Engelhardt

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

27.10.2025 10

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

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

03.10.2025 10

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

Breaking: the Earth! So Where Are the Headlines?

09.09.2025 10

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

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 10

CounterPunch

Tom Engelhardt

Trump: the Personification of the End of History?

22.08.2025 10

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

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

01.08.2025 10

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 20

CounterPunch

Tom Engelhardt

Trump Planning to Destroy Planet

15.07.2025 10

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

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

24.06.2025 10

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

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

16.05.2025 10

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 10

CounterPunch

Tom Engelhardt

The Apocalyptic Don Takes a Hit out on the Earth

02.05.2025 10

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

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 10

CounterPunch

Tom Engelhardt

Trump's bankrupt empire

Donald Trump is not only President Bankrupt, but President Decline

09.04.2025 10

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 10

CounterPunch

Tom Engelhardt

Donald J. Trump, President of Bankruptcy and Decline

08.04.2025 10

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

Trump 2.0: A First-Class Shock-and-Awe Experience

20.03.2025 9

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

President Decline, Baby, Decline

Count on one thing: in some almost unimaginable future, no American president (if we even have them anymore) is going to rename a mountain for Donald...

25.02.2025 10

CounterPunch

Tom Engelhardt

We Won't Name a Mountain After Trump, But Maybe a Big, Deep Hole

24.02.2025 10

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt

Trump Is Hitting the Gas on Our Path to Planetary Destruction

31.01.2025 10

The Nation

Tom Engelhardt

Electing Trump as an Act of Collective Suicide

30.01.2025 20

Common Dreams

Tom Engelhardt