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This Tuesday, the presidential State of the Union Address rolls around yet again. Only four Januaries have passed since the President used…
Tom Engelhardt
Tom Engelhardt created and runs the website TomDispatch.com. He is also a co-founder of the American Empire Project and the author of a highly praised history of American triumphalism in the Cold War, The End of Victory Culture. A fellow of the Type Media Center, his sixth and latest book is A Nation Unmade by War.
In the 1940s and 1950s, when the generation of men now ruling over us were growing up, boys could disappear into a…
2006 is sure to be the year of living dangerously — for the Bush administration and for the rest of us. In…
As 2006 begins, we seem to be at a not-completely-unfamiliar crossroads in the long history of the American imperial presidency. It grew…
[Note to readers: Tomdispatch returns in the New Year full of hope and with as complete an account as possible of the…
Imagine, for a moment, that someone had a finger on a pause button just after the attacks of September 11, 2001. That’s…
From the destroyed Japanese and German cities of World War II to the devastated Korean peninsula of the early 1950s, from the…
The “usually disengaged” President, as columnist Maureen Dowd labeled him, had just returned from a prolonged, brush-cutting Crawford vacation to much criticism…
Typically, when faced with a problem, the first thing Bush administration officials do is reach for their dictionaries to pretzel and torture…
On the September 27th Charlie Rose Show, interviewing New Yorker editor David Remnick, Rose brought up the question of what the United…