From America’s most influential political blog, a grand survey of the
world since 9/11

Tomdispatch.com has established itself as the go-to blog for contemporary US politics, and the favored web platform for radical commentators from Noam Chomsky to Howard Zinn. Its powerful, no-holds-barred features draw a huge response from the public and resonate throughout the global media, acting as a touchpaper for debates which subsequently become headline news. This comprehensive volume offers readers a chance to catch up on some of the finest political analysis of our age, including trenchant accounts of the two Bush administrations: catastrophic imperial adventures in Afghanistan and Iraq; Guantánamo, extraordinary rendition and its apologists; and Hurricane Katrina, global warming, black gold and the rise of Hugo Chávez.

Introduced, arranged and with additional commentary throughout by the blog’s founder Tom Engelhardt, The World According to Tomdispatch is the essential primer for anyone seeking illumination and guidance along the highways and byways of our post-9/11 world.

Contributors: John Brown, Ira Chernos, Noam Chomsky, Michael Klare, Juan Cole, Mike Davis, Mark Danner, Greg Grandin, Adam Hochschild, Arlie Hochschild, Dahr Jamail, Chalmers Johnson, Ann Jones, Bill McKibben, Rasha Salti, Jonathan Schell, Rebecca Solnit, Nick Turse, Behzad Yaghmaian

Praise for Tomdispatch:

“With unerring touch, he finds the stories I need to read, prefacing them each day with introductions that in themselves form a witty, hugely enjoyable, brilliant running commentary on the times. He is my mainstream.” — Jonathan Schell

“As powerful as a Joe Louis job to the solar plexus.” — Studs Terkel on The End of Victory Culture

Tom Engelhardt created and runs the website Tomdispatch.com, a project of The Nation Institute where he is a Fellow. He is the author of a highly praised history of American triumphalism in the Cold War, The End of Victory Culture. Each spring he is a Teaching Fellow at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in New York City.