That’s what the man told them. That’s what the masked American thugs who are ICE just ignored again. Ricardo Gonzalez is forty years old. He was born in Hanford, California. He worked for the city of Long Beach for about eight years, first in the health department and then in utilities, and he left that […]
Category: Essays (Page 1 of 18)
America has a new press secretary, and America’s reporters have responded the way they always do: with questions. Where did she pass the bar? Is she a lawyer? Is anything the matter? Before the mob finishes sharpening its pitchforks, let us examine her position with the care it deserves. When we do, we find it […]
Within hours of a rally in Grand Island, Nebraska, on Monday night, a clip was circulating of Donald Trump saying “Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego.” The reaction was immediate and furious. California’s governor wrote that the President was saying America’s foreign enemies should take out the two cities […]
The Allies nearly skipped the trial completely. Early in 1945, Churchill and Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau favored summary execution of the top Nazis. Secretary of War Henry Stimson argued that a court would do what a firing squad could not: build a record. President Truman appointed Robert Jackson, a sitting Supreme Court justice, as chief […]
There is a population growing in this country that the country has not found a good name for, because the country does not want to look at it directly. These are not radicals. They do not burn anything. They pay their taxes, help a friend move a couch, look for moments of joy. What they […]
Donald Trump is the lowest of the low. On September 8, 2026, five days before the twenty-fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Donald Trump stood at a White House ceremony hosted by the Tunnel to Towers Foundation and accepted a piece of an American flag holding steel recovered from the World Trade Center’s South […]
I have hiked the forests that ring this lake. I have walked a dog along its shoreline when the water was the color of wet slate and the gulls were screaming. I have run its paths in July heat and February ice. I know this lake the way you know a neighbor for a lifetime. […]
RFK Jr. told CNN and Fox that Lyme disease “almost certainly” came from gain-of-function research. A 5,300-year-old mummy’s genome says otherwise.
Delusional MAGA clown Mike Lindell is crying because he lost by 11 points. In his words, this is an anomaly.
Settle down and pay attention. I have uncovered a statistical relationship so strong, so consistent, and so entirely unexamined, that it demands to be published before someone else takes credit for it. In 1971, the United States licensed the combined measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine. Practically every American child born after that year received […]