How to Trap a President in a Losing War How to Trap a President in a Losing War
Are we heading for a Petraeus Moment in the Afghan War, along with a titanic civilian-military clash of wills?
Sep 24, 2009 / Feature / Tom Engelhardt
Is America Hooked on War? Is America Hooked on War?
The United States is coming ever closer to a state that matches the Orwellian slogan from 1984: war is peace.
Sep 17, 2009 / Feature / Tom Engelhardt
Afghanistan by the Numbers Afghanistan by the Numbers
How to measure "success" in Afghanistan, the metrics for a war gone to hell.
Sep 8, 2009 / Feature / Tom Engelhardt
GI Joe, Post-American Hero GI Joe, Post-American Hero
Why is it that GI Joe--like all action figures in all action movies of this moment--has left the all-American battlefield for outer, or future or alternate space?
Aug 26, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Tom Engelhardt
Biking Out of Iraq Biking Out of Iraq
Reflections on troops that don't depart, experts who never leave the scene, an Air Force that suddenly wasn't there and a war that no longer needs justification.
Aug 13, 2009 / Feature / Tom Engelhardt
Don’t Turn the Page on History Don’t Turn the Page on History
Can the United States turn its back on its own "little house of horrors"?
Jul 23, 2009 / Editorial / Tom Engelhardt
Borrowed Time: The World at 65 Borrowed Time: The World at 65
The tumultuous American Century in the lives of a father and son.
Jul 21, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Tom Engelhardt
Are Afghan Lives Worth Anything? Are Afghan Lives Worth Anything?
The mainstream media would rather focus on the death of Michael Jackson than cover the barbaric slaughter of innocent Afghan civilians by American planes.
Jul 7, 2009 / Editorial / Tom Engelhardt
Obama Looses the Manhunters Obama Looses the Manhunters
Barack Obama may turn out to be the best pure politician we've seen since Ronald Reagan, but he's also head honcho for the globe's single great garrison state that lives off war an...
Jun 15, 2009 / Feature / Tom Engelhardt
Missing Word, Missing World: Graduating the Rest of Us, ’09 Missing Word, Missing World: Graduating the Rest of Us, ’09
Graduates of the Bush years, initiates of the Obama era, here's a commencement address that's suitably obscure and yet somehow ringing.
Jun 2, 2009 / Feature / Tom Engelhardt