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Category: Best of TomDispatch

The Personal Is Still Political

And It’s Planetary, Too

By Rebecca Gordon On May 15, 2022On May 15, 2022

Requiem for the Home Front

A Cheer for Irma the Caricaturist

By Tom Engelhardt On May 1, 2022On May 1, 2022

“Bride and Boom!”

We’re Number One… In Obliterating Wedding Parties

By Tom Engelhardt On April 10, 2022On April 11, 2022

The Doomsday Clock

Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change, and the Prospects for Survival

By Noam Chomsky On October 3, 2021On October 3, 2021

Empire or Humanity?

What the Classroom Didn’t Teach Me About the American Empire

By Howard Zinn On August 15, 2021On August 15, 2021

America’s Child Soldiers

JROTC and the Militarizing of America

By Ann Jones On August 8, 2021On August 8, 2021

Memory Loss in the Garden of Violence

How Americans Remember (and Forget) Their Wars

By John Dower On August 1, 2021On August 1, 2021

How Did the Gates of Hell Open in Vietnam?

A New Book Transforms Our Understanding of What the Vietnam War Actually Was 

By Jonathan Schell On July 25, 2021On July 25, 2021

Best of TomDispatch: Engelhardt, The Biggest Criminal Enterprise in History

By Tom Engelhardt On October 8, 2020On May 15, 2021

In the Shadow of War

Life and Fiction in Twenty-First-Century America

By Tom Engelhardt On August 16, 2020On August 16, 2020

Memory Loss in the Garden of Violence

How Americans Remember (and Forget) Their Wars

By John Dower On July 30, 2020On July 30, 2020

Best of TomDispatch: In Memoriam: Jonathan Schell (1943-2014)

By Jonathan Schell On July 5, 2020On December 14, 2020

Three Good Reasons To Liquidate Our Empire

And Ten Steps to Take to Do So

By Chalmers Johnson On March 15, 2020On February 17, 2021

Illusions of Victory

How the United States Did Not Reinvent War But Thought It Did

By Andrew Bacevich On May 5, 2019On May 5, 2019

Two Men, Two Legs, and Too Much Suffering

By Tam Turse On October 28, 2018On February 17, 2021

Teenagers in Space

By Tom Engelhardt On October 7, 2018On October 7, 2018

Three Good Reasons To Liquidate Our Empire

And Ten Steps to Take to Do So

By Tom Engelhardt On July 29, 2018On February 17, 2021

Saving the Military from Itself

By Tom Engelhardt On May 6, 2018On May 6, 2018

How Many Minutes to Midnight?

Hiroshima Day 2014

By Tom Engelhardt On March 11, 2018On March 11, 2018

Best of TomDispatch: Tom Engelhardt, Through the Gates of Hell

By Tom Engelhardt On February 18, 2018On February 17, 2021

Against Discouragement

By Tom Engelhardt On May 21, 2017On May 21, 2017

Best of TomDispatch: Engelhardt, The 16th Anniversary of American Cowardice

By Tom Engelhardt On March 23, 2017On May 15, 2021

Cow Most Sacred

Why Military Spending Remains Untouchable

By Tom Engelhardt On August 18, 2016On August 18, 2016

Two Men, Two Legs, and Too Much Suffering

By Tom Engelhardt On May 29, 2016On February 17, 2021

A Trail of Tears 

How Veterans Return From America’s Wars 

By Tom Engelhardt On February 14, 2016On February 14, 2016

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