James BigBoy Medlin
Aug 2, 201913 min read
VIETNAM: GETTING IN/GETTING OUT
A Three-Part Account of My Experience PART II: Hello Vietnam, I Really Must Be Going At the completion of Advanced Infantry Training,...
Rabbi Robin Podolsky / Jewish Journal
Jul 31, 20193 min read
Message to Immigrants: ‘You Aren’t Alone’
The rideshare dropped me off 15 minutes early at the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles. Already, there were hundreds...
Daniel Immerwahr / Mother Jones Magazine
Jul 11, 20194 min read
Outside Sources / No One Called the United States "America" Until It Became an Empire
Adapted from How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. America, as a shorthand for the United States, has a way of...
Luke Kemp / BBC Future
Mar 17, 20191 min read
Outside Sources / Are We on the Road to Civilization Collapse?
DEEP CIVILIZATION This article is part of a new BBC Future series about the long view of humanity, which aims to stand back from the...
Pankaj Mishra / New York Times
Mar 13, 20191 min read
Outside Sources / The Malign Incompetence of the British Ruling Class
With Brexit, the chumocrats who drew borders from India to Ireland are getting a taste of their own medicine. Describing Britain’s...
Clay Coppedge
Aug 27, 20189 min read
Hub City Hip
The first time most of the wider world ever heard of Lubbock was after several people saw a group of bright lights zooming across the...
George Rains
May 15, 20189 min read
Ft. Worth Underground
Part 3 of 'Cellar Dweller' The original Cellar was a raunchy coffee house in a refurbished basement on Houston Street in downtown Fort...
George Rains
May 7, 20185 min read
Step Away From the Duck
Part 2 of Cellar Dweller It was Pat Kirkwood’s idea that we should all get arrested for roasting ducks at the City Park Duck Pond in Fort...
George Rains
May 2, 20188 min read
Cellar Dweller, Part One
First of Three Parts The Cellar began as an eccentric little coffee house in a dank, dark basement underneath Houston Street in downtown...
Enrico Deaglio / the Lunch Guys
Mar 6, 20183 min read
Report on an Italian Disaster: European Fascist Parties Increase Momentum
The Italian vote has changed completely the European political landscape, ending what was called “the Second Republic”, which started in...
H.H. Howze
Nov 18, 201714 min read
Incidents of Travel in Mexico and Central America With Doug Breeding: A Journal
“Dogs bark but the caravan passes …” Douglas Breeding was a true Austin original. Raised on the banks of the Colorado River, he partnered...
Jan Reid
Oct 31, 20174 min read
Spain's Troubles
Because my novel Sins of the Younger Sons delves into Basque separatism in Spain, several friends and readers have asked for my outlook...
George Rains
Sep 30, 201710 min read
Doug Sahm: Family Man & Night of the Living Blues
Family Man My friend Charley and I went to see Doug Sahm at the Whiskey-A-Go-Go on Sunset Boulevard. Doug was there with his band, The...
