Archives for December 2025

Another year of Northeast Reader is concluding. This is the annual review wherein I highlight one or more articles from each month, comprising what I think are the most important moments to remember. This is also a great way to become acquainted with NER if you’re a new visitor. As someone newly acquainted, I emphasize reading […]

The war in Ukraine is a topic that I and a lot of others have more or less checked out from. It’s seemingly intractable. Europe couldn’t deal with it. Biden couldn’t, Trump is trying, playing good cop bad cop to Putin, then Zelensky, Putin, Zelensky… Russia has lost 1% of its male population to the […]

I usually don’t engage with the news of celebrity deaths. Sure, it’s often sad or in the case of Rob and Michele Singer Reiner, tragic, but I have so little engagement with TV and movies that there’s just so little attachment to begin with even as millions of the living leave this mortal coil daily. […]

One benefit of being old is to see history move from one point to the next, in this case, cultural history. When I was young, I’d listen to my father bemoan the commercialism of Christmas. That was before Christmas was being stuffed in favor of ‘Happy Holidays’, or any iteration of the season, as long […]

There is a strange disease affecting conservative leaders and it’s a serious one. There’s a small but very well-defined group of them that were once solid, reliable, based, and respected for years. It’s not that they never held contrary views or that they all agreed on one conservative canon, it’s that they filled a place […]

In the past few weeks, the scale of corruption surrounding the Somalian population of Minnesota and a couple other upper Midwest states has hit the front pages. They’ve been bilking billions $ from the US taxpayer and an assortment of other alleged crimes and felonies. Suddenly, Tim Walz is described as ‘toast’. Fortunately, Trump is […]