Hannah Van Buren was the wife of Martin Van Buren, eighth president of the United States. She died 18 years before her husband was sworn in as president and so did not serve as first lady. Hannah Hoes and Martin Van Buren were distant cousins and childho
About the only bad part of the night was listening to American diplomats like me struggling to explain the Electoral College system in bad Mandarin or high school Spanish. But there were few parties this year, thanks to what some call “The Trump Effect.” Many officials are still hurting ...
The Biden-Harris administration challenged Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care. “The laws are inflicting profound harms on transgender adolescents and their families by denying medical treatments that the affected adolescents, their parents, their doctors, and medical experts have all concluded are...
Blankenship, S. A., M. G. Pike, G. G. Deweese, S. L. Van de Gevel, and H. D. Grissino-Mayer, 2009. The dendroarchaeol- ogy of Cagle Saltpetre Cave: A 19th century saltpeter mining site in Van Buren County, Tennessee, USA. Tree-Ring Research 65(1):11-22....
We have been squawking about longer term solutions for decades, with NYC providing one of the most comprehensive menus of such ideas in the nation — near free housing, education, internships, public medical care, benefits to mothers and children, before and after school programs, pre-K, schoo...
In response to Helsinki, Tennessee Congressman Steve Cohen asked“Where are our military folks ? The Commander in Chief is in the hands of our enemy!” Treason, traitor, coup, the empire striking back. Those are just words, right? The simpler answer is probably the correct one. Maybe that...
sued the school system to reverse the admission process changes, which they allege were meant to diminish the number of Asian students. That qualifies as discrimination based on race. In May 2023, after action in District Court, the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled in favor of ...
Google “Peter Van Buren” with the quotes. Most of you will see on the first page of results articles I wrote four years ago for outlets like The Nation and Salon. Almost none of you will see the scores of columns I wrote for The American Conservative over the past four years. Google...
In U.S. v. Skrmetti, the Supreme Court will consider a Tennessee law banning gender transition treatments for minors. The law prohibits health care providers from giving hormones or puberty blockers to “enable a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the ...
About the only bad part of the night was listening to American diplomats like me struggling to explain the Electoral College system in bad Mandarin or high school Spanish. But there were few parties this year, thanks to what some call “The Trump Effect.” Many officials are still hurting ...