Going, Going, Gone! The World According to Donald Trump
I remember the phrase from my boyhood, listening to baseball games on the old wooden radio by my bed. A major hitter would be up and — bang! — he’d…
Tom Engelhardt
Climate-Change Summer or Nuclear Winter? The Dangers on Planet Earth in the Age of Donald Trump
Yes, give us human beings credit. In our relatively brief history, it’s no small thing to have come up with two different ways of thoroughly devastating Planet Earth and its…
Making (Non)Sense of Donald Trump, or the Success of Failure
Yes, “shock and awe” is back in the second age of Donald Trump. His border czar, Tom Homan, used that very phrase to describe border policy from day one of the new…
The Ultimate Twosome – Nukes and Climate Change in 2024
Honestly, what strange creatures we are. Nothing stops us when it comes to destruction, does it? (And I’m not even thinking about the utter, ongoing devastation of Gaza.) I mean,…
A Slow-Motion Gaza Or How to Carbonize Planet Earth
Imagine this: humanity in its time on Earth has already come up with two distinct ways of destroying this planet and everything on it. The first is, of course, nuclear…
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