The Writing of Joe Broadmeadow

By Joe Broadmeadow Pope Leo XIV was returning from Turkey and Lebanon last December when a reporter asked him about interfaith coexistence. The Pope said Lebanon demonstrates that Islam and Christianity “are both present and are respected” and that there…

Author’s note: In the old mill where we now live, I often wonder about the generations of people who worked here, laboring in difficult and sometimes dangerous conditions. From old men and women, stooped with age from the backbreaking work,…

The world is now living inside the crisis that Barack Obama’s Iran policy was designed to prevent. Oil prices are being yanked around by a shooting war in and around Iran, the country sits on a stockpile of highly enriched…

Exploring the woods, fields, streams, and swamps of a then far less developed Cumberland gave me some of the finest moments of my life. Unburdened by real responsibility, free from schedules and deadlines, and indifferent to how time was spent,…

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does send invoices. The bill for one of the most catastrophic foreign policy blunders of the modern era has arrived—and it is written in fire, blood, and the wailing of 3.2 million displaced Iranians.…

**WASHINGTON, D.C.** — In what defense officials have called “a major step forward in national self-esteem engineering,” the Pentagon confirmed it will proceed with the $1 trillion *Trump-Class Battleship*, a 90,000-ton floating tribute to “power, patriotism, and personal branding.”  “The…

An op-ed on the deliberate dismantling of American public education There is a particular kind of vandalism that does not look like vandalism. It arrives dressed in the language of choice, flexibility, and freedom. It presents itself as reform. It…

This is from a series of short stories I am developing. With the advent and pernicious nature of AI infiltrating our daily lives, I wonder where it will lead? Detective Mara Voss cleaned out her desk on Tuesday, which seemed appropriate. Tuesdays…

I have always been fascinated by the people who take pride in proclaiming how they “never took the jab” and “masks are for sheep” as if it were some courageous act of defiance, heroic stance, or mark of intelligence. In…

As if starting an ill-conceived war isn’t enough, Hesgeth now wants to turn this into a “holy crusade” complete with petitions for divine intervention and claims of a 21st-century manifest destiny of his form of uniquely American Christianity. Given the…