The Writing of Joe Broadmeadow

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…

Now that the President (whose mind is quite evidently anything but unfettered in deliberation) has assured us that Iran has been militarily decimated, obliterated, and otherwise rendered harmless, and we are a mere two, maybe three, maybe less, maybe more,…

I hold no religious faith. I haven’t since I first attained a level of mature rationality. I don’t begrudge people their choice to embrace faith, unless they insist (as many do) that theirs is the “one, true faith” and try…

One sure sign of a would-be tyrant is they create a problem out of whole cloth, offer a solution to this problem ostensibly for the benefit of those under their control, and insist it is being done to protect them.…

A recent news story reported that President Trump authorized a statue of Christopher Columbus, reconstructed from pieces destroyed by protesters, to be placed on the White House lawn. This is the latest effort to whitewash the reality of Columbus and…