A couple years back I received an offer and a prompt from a friend to contribute a story to a collection to be called "Queer Country." The most significant genre requirement was that the story be set in the "Old West," in this case an isolated...
A few notes to help you get in the Spirt of 76 for the country's Big Beautiful 249th birthday celebration: (1) Per Gallup, Donald Trump's approval rating is two points.
Here’s my list of books read in May. Last month’s list is here. You can follow previous months from there. This goes out to my book patron, known as PS, who.
On July 1, 1847, the Factories Act of 1847 in Britain went into effect. This law limited hours in textile mills for women and children under 18 to 10 per day. It also lowered the weekly hours to 63. The idea here was that by officially...
This is, as a Delaware poet once said, a big fuckin' deal: California lawmakers on Monday sent Gov. Gavin Newsom two bills to roll back a landmark law that was.
What if the beaning death of Cleveland shortstop Ray Chapman by Yankees pitcher Carl Mays in 1920 was part of an occult plan to make the Yankees the dominant franchise.
Paul Krugman writing the kind of stuff that would be way too shrill, aka true, for his former editors: Zohran Mamdani’s upset victory in New York’s Democratic primary has created panic in MAGAland. Stephen Miller, the architect of Donald Trump’s deportation policies, waxed apocalyptic: Scott Bessent,...
Area plutocrat discovers that Republicans are not the party of deficit reduction and clean energy after spending the GDP of Uzbekistan to get it elected: More important than spending on.
It's almost impossible to adequately explain how terrible the Republican reconciliation bill is: The Senate Republican tax bill speeding to passage includes the biggest reduction of funding for the federal safety net.
Marilynne Robinson has an interesting article ($$) in the NYRB about, among other things, the extent to which America in 2025 is most accurately understood as two different nations occupying the same territory, and exchanging control of a single national government: [T]here is also a clash...
People fly into the air as a vehicle drives into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. The nationalists were.
When I say what is going on with the Republican Party is more late 19th century than Nazi Germany, this is exactly what I am talking about: In 2023, while.