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Tomgram: Arlie Hochschild, Trumping Environmentalism

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Tomgram: Ann Jones, "I Didn't Serve, I Was Used"

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Tomgram: Todd Miller, The Great Mexican Wall Deception

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Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Making Sense of Trump and His National Security State Critics

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Best of TomDispatch: Andrew Bacevich, Pentagon, Inc.

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Tomgram: Judith Coburn, On the Mean Streets of America

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Tomgram: William Astore, Why It's So Hard for Members of the Military to Speak Out

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[Note for TomDispatch Readers: TD is taking this weekend off. Next post: Tuesday, August 16th. Tom]

Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Election From Hell

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The Greatest Show on Earth 
How Billions of Words, Tweets, Insults, and Polls Blot Out Reality in Campaign 2016 
By Tom Engelhardt

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, Pseudo-Election 2016

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[Note for TomDispatch Readers: TD is taking this weekend off. Next post: Tuesday, August 9th.  Tom]

Tomgram: Nick Turse, The U.S. Military Pivots to Africa and That Continent Goes Down the Drain

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Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Guns for Tots

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Tomgram: William Hartung, How to Arm a "Volatile" Planet

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Tomgram: Engelhardt, Crimes Against the Future

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Tomgram: Adam Hochschild, Letting Tarzan Swing Through History

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[Note for TomDispatch Readers: Even TD knows when it’s beat. Thursday is clearly a media day reserved for pure Trumpery. There’s no point in fighting it, so this site is taking it off. The next post will be on Sunday, July 24th. Tom]

Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, How Extrajudicial Executions Became "War" Policy in Washington

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Tomgram: Michael Klare, Fossil Fuels Forever

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Tomgram: William Astore, We Have Met the Alien and He Is Us

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Imagine a secret government facility buried deep in the bowels of a mountain; a deluxe bomb shelter -- encased within dense, almost fissure-less rock -- for top government officials to ride out doomsday.

I did. A lot.

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Where Did the American Century Go?

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Whose Century Is It? 
Life on an Increasingly Improbable Planet 
By Tom Engelhardt

Tomgram: Nick Turse, Revolving Doors, Robust Rolodexes, and Runaway Generals

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Tomgram: Thomas Frank, Worshipping Money in D.C.

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[Note for TomDispatch Readers: Read today's piece and then get your hands on Thomas Frank's new book, Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?  It's the political must-read of this season if you want to know where liberalism went in the last two and a half decades.  The next TomDispatch post will be on Tuesday, July 5th.  Tom]

Tomgram: Patrick Cockburn, An Endless Cycle of Indecisive Wars

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Tomgram: John Feffer, Donald Trump and America B

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Tomgram: Nick Turse, Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics... and U.S. Africa Command

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Tomgram: William Astore, The End of Air Power?

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Tomgram: Andrew Cockburn, Victory Assured on the Military's Main Battlefield -- Washington

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Tomgram: Noam Chomsky, Tick... Tick... Tick...

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Tomgram: Mark Wilkerson, Batman in a Hospital Bed

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Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Justice for Torturers?

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Tomgram: Engelhardt, Renaming Our World

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Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, America's Sinkhole Wars

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