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He’s the man of the hour (and you can choose your hour), win, lose, or draw. I mean, who can deny it? Certainly not the crowd at his debate with...
A Trump victory could, in every sense, put us in a lost universe, floating not just in space but in a space growing hotter by the year.
Our world has become mega-dystopian in so many ways it’s almost hard to fathom.
It would be hard to get a more striking sense of just how deeply the century has aged than by watching two elderly men once again running for...
Nuclear war between great (or even lesser) powers could quickly produce an apocalyptic scenario, while climate change offers us that apocalypse in...
In some sense, you could say that, 3,000 years later, we’re all still in Troy. But in this telling, we are both the soldiers behind the walls and...
With those two old men, one of whom is also bizarre beyond compare, wrestling each other for the presidency, this country is threatening in its own...
I’ve been describing this world of ours, such as it is, for almost 23 years at TomDispatch. I’ve written my way through three-and-a-half...
If you thought what was once proudly dubbed "the American Century" couldn't get any worse, you clearly haven't been paying...
Isn’t it strange that, after all these millennia, we humans can’t seem to truly face, no less truly deal with, who and what we are and what we...
I was born on July 20, 1944, almost two years after Joe Biden arrived on this planet and almost a year before You Know Who, like me, landed in New...
Who would believe me decades ago if I tried to explain to them where the United States now finds itself. On the precipice of American fascism,...
On the not-so-small human achievement of total annihilation. In just a few thousand years, we've learned to do it in more than one way.