Observations on the Ever Given , in FAQ style. Is the ship still stuck?  As of almost midnight local time, March 27, it was. There's som...

My Disaster-Wise blog is now ten years old, with a few hundred posts and about a third of a million views along the way. I never really intr...

I've seen several articles lately about distancing the President from the National Command Authority (NCA), the rather short decision c...

Excerpt from Thomas Jefferson's letter to Nathaniel Niles March 22, 1801 "The late chapter of our history furnishes a lesson to ma...

Thinking of the Pence/Harris debate gone by, I looked back at this 2012 NPR  feature  on vice presidents .  Not just long-forgotten, many VP...

Finished another feature for Air&Space/Smithsonian Magazine, "Block that Bomb," online today and linked here . It describes a...

Writers have been calling for World War II-style unity lately, but seem puzzled: how did Americans achieve the apparent, single-minded unity...