Welcome to Our Extreme World
A heating planet is a danger, not in some distant time, but right now — yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
A heating planet is a danger, not in some distant time, but right now — yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Is there a viable future in which the relationship between the US and China — the two largest greenhouse gas emitters — is a warlike one?
Given the role the United States has played in wars and militarized conflicts of every sort, when has the country ever not been at war?
The planet is not only wounded by the COVID-19 pandemic. Climate change will prove increasingly devastating to our lives.
How, since 1991, imperial history has happened at warp speed — and not to the advantage of the United States.
In the years to come, America may be facing not simply an imperial presidency, but an imperial-disaster presidency
Tom Engelhardt delivers a personal reminder of just how long the US has been on Donald Trump’s road in an American world now teetering at the edge of who knows what.
The US has a president who is remarkably intent on creating a version of what, in his inauguration address of 2017, he called “American carnage.”
Tom Engelhardt looks at what has happened to the US since it became the lone superpower on planet Earth in 1991.
Despite dying in 2011, Osama bin Laden has gotten his ultimate revenge on the US.
The American century is ending decisively with a first-class declinist inside Washington’s Green Zone.
In this coronaviral moment of ours, our world is being transformed before our eyes into one of missing beauties.