Photo courtesy National Park Service, via Wikimedia Commons
Some of my earliest memories, I realize now, are actually of time. The invisible wind making a wave that approached in the prairie grass; dappled light under the tree that changed with the incidence of the sun. The fatigue of…
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Two young men watch a Cardinals game at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, summer 2022
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Missouri became the first U.S. state to ban abortion after Friday’s Supreme Court ruling overthrew Roe v. Wade.
Asian Carp have become a serious problem in midwestern rivers and lakes. They overpopulate; drive out native species; decimate food supplies such as plankton, algae, and endangered mollusks; and, as you have probably seen in videos, often swarm the surface and fly through the air, hitting boaters.
Former White House Political Director Bill Stepien, from the January 6th hearings, courtesy US House
The second day of hearings by the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol was held yesterday. The focus of its argument was tighter than on…
General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, in taped testimony in the first night of hearings, courtesy US House
The first of the public hearings of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol aired on multiple platforms tonight.…
“Top Gun: Maverick,” the second movie in the now-franchise, broke the Memorial Day weekend record for a movie release and is Tom Cruise’s new “biggest domestic box-office debut,” earning $550 million globally in only a week. Somewhere there are admirals celebrating the range of their wingmen.
Still from ‘Babushkas,’ Chicken and Egg Pictures
The Babushkas of Chernobyl is a 2015 documentary produced and directed by Holly Morris and Anne Bogart, which emerged from Morris’ earlier journalism and TED Talk about elderly women living in the shadow of the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear plant.…