After 24 years of incisive reporting and commentary on America’s destructive imperial exploits, Tom is passing the torch. Then-President George W. Bush speaks aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. I have a friend who sends a note every year in December, pleading with me to pen one ...

Editor and author Tom Engelhardt runs one of the most influential political Web sites on the net – Tomdispatch.com. In this interview Engelhardt and Pepe Escobar discuss the tribulations of Empire, ...

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U.S. soldiers discuss tactics in Gabon, 2017. (US Army / Sgt. 1st Class Alexandra Hays) EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like ...

State Department whistleblower and TomDispatch regular Peter Van Buren took an unlikely fall into the minimum-wage world when he lost his job in 2012. Today, he gives us a first-hand look at what it's ...

Some years ago, I faced up to the futility of reporting true things about America’s disastrous wars and so I left Afghanistan for another remote mountainous country far away. It was the polar opposite ...

Okay, here’s what this old man remembers nearly a quarter of a century later. I was living in New York City (as I still am) when, on September 11, 2001, two hijacked planes full of passengers hit the ...