Sublime

“Liberal?” Major Hackensack said it like the word “pedophile.” “You a liberal, British journalist?” I swallowed. The Iraqis were watching us too, wondering if their fates were being decided by this incomprehensible but clearly ill-tempered exchange. “You’ve been sent here because of the most conservative White House in living memory. Truly, Major,

There were plenty of hacks who were more than happy to bash out a two thousand word click bait article and collect their wages. It didn’t matter if it was an article body shaming a young celebrity, or a pointless list about a popular TV show. Some of the newer ‘journalists’ were chasing clicks, which meant more money. It was the way the world had b

I’m not sure what is more disturbing—that the annexation of the Philippines, along with Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Guam in 1898 is a betrayal of the principle of self-government established in 1776 or Lodge’s allegation that the principle of self-government was, is, and always will be a delusion.

As she looked out at the eager journalists, all of them fiddling with their phones, laptops, and notepads,

The United States Army Corps of Engineers has its Chicago District headquarters in a Classical Revival building on LaSalle Street. A plaque outside the building explains that it was the site of the General Time Convention of 1883, held to sync the country’s clocks. The process involved pruning dozens of regional time zones down to four, which, in m

With the dawn of the new century, however, came a wave of “progressive” sentiment that called for a far tougher regulation of railroads, in the public interest.

Sure, the office was filled with the younger generation, fixated on ‘pumping out as much content as possible’. They were a vital cog in The Pulse machine. Their empty, shallow articles generated enough money for Nigel to fund the real writers, the ones who put the world into words and laid it out for the public to see.