Tom Engelhardt

3 days ago | warisacrime.org | Tom Engelhardt

This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. At some level, it couldn’t be less complicated. Donald Trump is a classic bully. Which means, if you aren’t on his side of things (as he sees it), watch out! And count on one thing, anything involving DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) isn’t on his side of things. We know that now, of course. How could we not? He couldn’t have been clearer on the subject this time around.

5 days ago | warisacrime.org | Tom Engelhardt

This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Just in case you hadn’t noticed, the budget bill that passed the House of Representatives — the one that does so many favors for the already wildly wealthy, including offering a “$235 billion tax break to the top two-tenths of 1%” of Americans — will also spend a whopping $46.5 billion (yes, billion!) to construct more of Donald Trump’s wall along the U.S.-Mexican border.

1 week ago | warisacrime.org | Tom Engelhardt

This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. As TomDispatch regular Juan Cole (whose Informed Comment website is a daily must-read) reminds us, wherever Donald Trump lands — in this country or just about anywhere else on Earth — he has a tendency to turn worlds upside down.

1 week ago | warisacrime.org | Tom Engelhardt

This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. In the age of Donald Trump, the very phrase “human rights” no longer seems to make sense and obviously needs to be changed.

1 week ago | warisacrime.org | Tom Engelhardt

This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. If we aren’t in a new Gilded Age, what are we in? After all, we now have an administration with no less than 13 billionaires in it, including the richest man on planet Earth (as well, of course, as President Donald J. Trump)! Together, they possess more money than the gross domestic products of 174 different countries.