A Brief History of the Middle East & U.S. Relations
Chapter I: Purpose & Overview Overview Each chapter moves the narrative along chronologically. There is some overlap in the years that are addressed in some chapters. The narrative focuses [...]
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Northside, Back Then
Back then, four corner stores for every six blocks on my Northside; Back then, business was mom and pop, a generations’ pride; Gas stations, dry cleaners, bakeries, hardware, drugstore soda [...]
Old Colonial Shoes
The tattered well-neat leather and its buckles’ faded brass, The heel that kept the heathen down to dominate his class, Were left to mold and blight where spirits still accuse, [...]
We Are Marching Ever Forward
We are marching ever forward, Forward is what we do; We are marching ever forward, Progress certain and true. We are marching ever forward, No past to explicate, We are [...]
The Lights in Minneapolis
Exhausted and enduring frostbitten fingers and toes while marching in sub-zero weather through downtown Minneapolis on January 23, 2026, demonstrators were jubilant. Ten degrees below zero never felt so warm [...]
Privatizing Democracy
In October, 2025, the value of Unusual Machines’ stock spiked as the U.S. government granted a $12.8 million contract with Unusual Machines to supply for Strategic Logic’s drones. Founded in [...]
When Last Lowered the Hammer and Sickle
Christmas Day, December 25, 1991. The Kremlin in Moscow lowered the red flag of the Soviet Union for the last time. Its hammer and sickle fluttered in the wind. Was [...]
The World of the Prudent
In 1991, in the wake of the Soviet Union’s collapse, President George H. W. Bush was in a unique position that few in history have been. As leader of a [...]
Achievement Gaps as Collateral Damage
Americans never looked at education the same way after 1964, when sociologist James Coleman led a Congressionally commissioned study, The Equity of Educational Opportunity, which aimed to explain achievement gaps [...]