I was disappointed James Vanderbilt’s Nuremberg, a 2025 film I’ve been looking forward to seeing, has earned middling reviews. Rami Malek stars as a United States military psychiatrist assessing Nazi leader Hermann Göring, played by Russell Crowe, in the lead up to the Nuremberg trials, which held the German elite accountable for their crimes during […]
For decades, Alaska has operated under a fiscal and budgeting system unlike any other state, and some could argue any place in the world. It is a system at the mercy of volatility, political discretion, and short-term decision-making. The outcome has been entirely predictable. Chronic instability, endless political conflict, boom-and-bust budgeting, and leaders who struggle […]
Christmas, once a time to gather, reflect, and renew our obligations to one another, and the social rituals that once cultivated empathy and reinforced civic responsibility, have been reduced to a spectacle of distraction, dead trees, credit card receipts, and gift wrapping. When we think of Christmas today, what comes first to mind? Twinkling lights […]
Under Trump’s neofascist worldview, the only “legal” act is obedience, while defiance of his whims and illegal orders is a crime. I’ve been feeling something unusual these past few weeks: optimism. Not naïve optimism or the kind that ignores danger, but the real kind that arrives when you see people waking up, standing up, and […]