culture war Texas Rewrites, Well, Everything Can't afford a religious private school? Texas can help.
personal stories To Be American "The funnel came close enough for winds to destroy the wood-frame house and lift some of its sleeping occupants into the night sky. Elizabeth and Hope, two of Father’s sisters, were found still lying on their mattress almost a quarter mile from their bedroom."
Trump Big Bird Flips the Bird When Winston Churchill was asked to cut funding to the arts in order to support the war effort in WWII, he responded, “Then what would we be fighting for?” **
Trump Broke Down We are coming undone, stricken with our own stupidity and inability to stop the hijacking of our government, which is transpiring in front of our eyes while we sit in front of the TV and computers with Cheetos on our fingertips and beer on our breath.
Trump The Casinos at Mar-a-Gazo The proposed blitzkrieg that would sweep up the Panama Canal, Greenland, Gaza, Canada, and a few island nations to be named later? These pronouncements and declarations are all Weapons of Mass Distraction.
Trump A Rich Man's Trick The market cap for Trump's crypto grew to $60 billion almost overnight when it debuted after he took his oath of office. Trump’s financial solicitors can be anyone from Putin to General Dynamics to Exxon or England’s royal family. Pay your money, take your chances, and the public will never know.
Health Care Torches, Pitchforks, and Bullets There haven't been a lot of expressions of sympathy for the murder victim on social media. - from either the left or the right. What irony if the mob-style hit of an exec of a insurance corporation that is widely seen as predatory is the act that brings the nation together.
Election A Duty to Warn Joe Kennedy ALLEGEDLY bought off the mob in Chicago to assure JFK's victory. he U.S. Supreme Court gave Bush the win when recounts in Florida were shut down. And now there's Donald Trump...
Election A Turbulent and Troubled Land "We refuse to own our history, to learn from it, and cannot know who we truly are as a people or what binds us as a nation, because we have been hiding from ourselves for too long."
Election' A Culture of Cowardice I thought about a conversation I had with him on an airplane once because of the recent speculation that George W. Bush might endorse Kamala Harris. Sure, there is a non-zero chance of that happening, but I suggest you place your bets elsewhere.
US History What Kind of an American Are You? "Trump’s anger is not likely to be constrained by a courtroom. He will send emails to supporters, many of whom struggle to pay their own bills, begging to give him money because he’s a victim. They will send their cash and credit card payments to a man who claims to be among the world’s richest."
personal stories Independence Way I understood that there were economic and educational forces at work that made our lives abundantly different. My mother carried burgers and open-faced sandwiches as a waitress at a short-order restaurant. My father lifted bumpers out of a metal press for delivery to the assembly line.
Trump We've Been Here Before "The fear of speaking ill of Putin is so great that when Vlad killed his chief critic, Alexei Navalny, the only mention from Donald J. Trump was to compare his legal troubles to Navalny. One more reminder, Mr. President, Navalny is, uh, dead."
national politics The Burning Man “Free Palestine, free Palestine,” he screamed as the fire brought him down. Colleagues who knew him in the military described him as kind, soft-hearted, and caring, the diametric opposite of the angry radical that he is being portrayed in widespread reporting.
US History History Does Rhyme After All "Though most of the South had already seceded, when it came time to count electoral votes on February 21st, a crowd formed outside the Capitol with the intent of breaking in and with or without a buffalo horn headdress, disrupting the counting of the electoral votes to confirm Lincoln's victory."
US History Frankly My Dear, the Base Doesn't Give a Damn Trump is facing trial for what some term an insurrection, or at least an attempt to overthrow a fair election. The endless possibilities are not very good. And despite the hopes of liberals, not a slam dunk. Despite the hopes of conservatives, the results will be humiliating - no matter how it goes
US History The Second Casualty "Nothing seems to have changed in a century and a half. Humans are still killing other humans because of their differing gods or how they look, or the things they believe... and the children still fall first."
War Oppenheimer and Me Humans continue to live with the same fear that has haunted us since we initially split the atom. Robert Oppenheimer, a brilliant and heroic man, was just the first scientist to accomplish the inevitable. There tends to be little moral calculus to science.
Indigenous People An American Tale The genocide of native peoples,, Americans argued, was an inevitable consequence of Manifest Destiny, the belief that white Europeans and their progeny had a right to any land they wanted to settle in the West. Indians were characterized as savages, while settlers were the brave pioneers.
Travel American Memory Within an hour, we went from curious explorers of history to mercenary capitalists, transporting alcohol in quantity across state lines w/o a license or a permit. In the dorm, we sold out in a few hours at $3 a can, $20 for a six-pack, and $90 for a case. I had never made more money in one day.
personal stories A Port in History's Storm The Titan submersible, carried past the narrows on a ship for a launch above the Titanic’s wreckage, now leaves its imprimatur of sadness on a people who have known too long and too well that the sea exacts a price for its glory and bounty, and preparation is the best hope for survival.