In April I wrote a piece: What We Are All Thinking About the Fraud Class. It’s time to ask a lot tougher questions and demands considering what I’ll just call the Somalian fraud scandal unfolding now in the state of Minnesota. Some of this requires a focus on those specifics but there are enough hints in […]

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 […]