Author: Tom Valovic

How (And Why) AI is Eroding Democracy in the US

June 24, 2026 Tom Valovic

In the first few weeks of his presidency, Donald Trump announced a massive AI infrastructure project dubbed Stargate. It was an unexpected and rather odd event for a new administration’s first major initiative. It now seems obvious that the project was a highly coordinated initiative between the federal government […]

Can Prospects for Nuclear War Get Any Worse? Sure, We Can Put AI in Charge

April 14, 2026 Tom Valovic

How quickly is the Pentagon moving toward handing the nuclear keys over to AI systems and Big Tech? No one really knows. Can we possibly get away from AI’s ubiquitous presence in our lives? But as long as AI is now in our faces 24/7, […]

Are We Waking Up Fast Enough to the Dangers of AI Militarism?

October 8, 2025 Tom Valovic

by Tom Valovic AI is everywhere these days. There’s no escape. And as geopolitical events appear to spiral out of control in the Ukraine and Gaza, it seems clear that AI, while theoretically a force for positive change, has become has become a worrisome accelerant to […]

Why Is the Media Normalizing Nuclear War and Its Effects on US Populations?

July 30, 2025 Tom Valovic

by Tom Valovic Originally published in Common Dreams. The meme-contour of recent articles seems to invite a casual shoulder shrug with respect to the dark road that we’re now heading down and to minimize the powder keg of conflict looming in the Middle East. As […]

Mass Media and the Spectacle of the Imperial Presidency

May 27, 2025 Tom Valovic

by Tom Valovic This article was originally published in Common Dreams. The revolution won’t be televised, but our national decline will be highly pixelated. I’ve been thinking a lot about how the Trump administration has been using television, social media, and AI-generated digital graphics to […]

The New Geopolitics and The Normalization of Endless War

October 2, 2024 Tom Valovic

By Tom Valovic In John LeCarre’s novel, A Delicate Truth, we see the protagonist, an English civil servant, volunteering to take on an assignment for British intelligence. During his briefing, an intelligence officer makes the statement that “War has gone corporate”. Even as a novelist, […]

Opinion: 3 Important Questions You Won’t Hear Asked in the Presidential Debates

September 17, 2024 Tom Valovic

By Tom Valovic This article was originally published in Common Dreams, prior to the 2024 Trump-Harris Presidential Debate. We should not underestimate the power of debate questions to shape the political landscape. In November 2020, Common Dreams published my op-ed “Three Questions That Didn’t Get Asked During the Presidential […]