The Writing of Joe Broadmeadow

By Joe Broadmeadow Picture the scene: A congressman opens a session of the United States House of Representatives with a prayer invoking Jesus Christ as the foundation of the American republic. Hours later, he votes to cut food assistance for…

A short story by Joe Broadmeadow The dream always started the same way — not with darkness or that strange liquid feeling of falling, but with the smell of cut grass and something warm pressing against his leg. Michael Caruso…

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Op-ed by Joe Broadmeadow Gerrymandering does not steal every election. It does something more subtle, and often more effective: it decides which elections are allowed to be competitive in the first place. Neither party is innocent of this charge. What…

If my scars could talk, they’d start with the sound of water and fire. I was laid down when the century was still young, and coal dust rode every breath in this mill on the Warren River, long before anyone…

You’re so vain (you’re so vain)I bet you think this song is about youDon’t you, don’t you?Carly Simon, You’re So Vain President Trump has never been shy about branding, but the latest campaign to place his image on public objects…

What would Jesus, or Mohammed, or Buddha say? A humorous conversation about blind faith, twisted words, and the danger of turning belief into a weapon A small café sat somewhere between heaven, earth, and the place where people finally admit…

Author’s note: This short story is not the product of my imagination, but something my grandson Wyatt did the other day. The innocence of such inter-species communication, told from the point of view of the ant as if it were…

A satirical op-ed on America’s civic blackout during the Trump years and the hard work of waking up from it.

(A satirical piece with no connection to any current events (just so everyone is clear on this, in particular, the Department of (IN)Justice, the FBI, Homeland Security (which sounds like an artifact from 1940s Germany), and any other institution so…