The Friday afternoon sun hung low over the quiet Oregon suburb as I pulled into my driveway, golden light brushing across the rooftops of the neighborhood I’d called home for […]
The phone shattered the silence of my bedroom at 2:47 in the morning. At that hour, no call ever brings good news—a truth I’d learned during thirty-five years in criminal […]
For nearly a decade, the Republican Party has been defined—reshaped, fractured, and consolidated—by the political force of Donald J. Trump. His rise in 2015 upended decades of Republican orthodoxy, rewrote […]
The Cathedral The organ music swelled through the cathedral like a living thing, a majestic, rolling tide of sound that filled every corner of the cavernous wedding hall. Bach’s “Jesu, […]