The Super-Sizing of American Politics
Obesity is an American plague — and no, I’m not talking about overweight Americans. I’m talking about our overweight,…
The Indypendent
Tom Engelhardt
Imagine for a moment that almost once a week for the last six months somebody somewhere in this country…
How to Forget on Memorial Day: Whistling Past the Graveyard of Empires
It’s the saddest reading around: the little announcements that dribble out of the Pentagon every day or two —…
Obama’s Mission Accomplished Moment?
And a Military-First Policy on a Destabilizing Planet Here’s the ad for this moment in Washington (as I imagine…
How the Occupied Became the Occupiers
On the streets of Moscow in the tens of thousands, the protesters chanted: “We exist!” Taking into account the…
How to Turn Election Year Into Election Life
Sometimes words outlive their usefulness. Sometimes the gap between changing reality and the names we’ve given it grows so…
These last weeks, there have been two “occupations” in lower Manhattan, one of which has been getting almost all…
How Not to Make Friends in the Greater Middle East: Washington’s Singular Accomplishment
In the method, there is madness; in the comedy, nightmare; in the tragedy, farce. And despite everything, there’s still…
Nine War Words That Define Our World: ‘Victory’ Is the Verbal Equivalent of a Yeti
Now that Washington has at least six wars cooking (in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Yemen, and more generally, the…
Welcome to Post-Legal America: America and the National Security Complex
Is the Libyan war legal? Was Bin Laden’s killing legal? Is it legal for the president of the United…