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MAHA Madness, The Mile High Club and a Small Town Leader Takes a Stab and Misses at Full Disclosure
 • Joshua Powell
How To Get Away With Murder: A Columbia County Fix
War Heroes, Union College, Old Money, and a Death on Route 9H: How a Small-Town Network of Power Covered Up a Killing.
 • Joshua Powell
The Grapes of Wrath: A Plastic Surgeon, a Vanity Vineyard, and the Dirt-Road Rebellion o Columbia County
A Small Town Versus the Plastic Surgeon Come Vintner. The Wine Wars, Episode One.
 • Joshua Powell
31:13
Politics as Usual, Bad Science, Bad Billionaires and Yes, a Murder
It's been a week. While the Epstein Files continue to take scalps, this writer hunkers down showing all politics are swampy — even the local brand …
 • Joshua Powell
The Body Count of Politics in Science
The Removal of DEI from Research and Medicine Is a Death Sentence for Americans.
 • Joshua Powell
The Wine Wars: the White Coat Entrepreneur and the Vineyard that Isn’t
A Surgeon, a Carcinogen, and the Audacity of Agricultural Cosplay
 • Joshua Powell
The Price of a Soul at Yale Is Surprisingly Reasonable
Bessent wrote checks for Hillary and Obama. Vance compared Trump to Hitler. Now they run his government. The Ivy League pipeline explained.
 • Joshua Powell
This Week and Next: Let's Talk About Brad
Just why was Karp's firm the first to bow to Trump? I think we know now.
 • Joshua Powell
The Incredible Shrinking Winery
More than five years, three lawyers, two engineers, and one garage — and all the Williams want is a dinner party. Or so they say now.
 • Joshua Powell
How the 'Gipper' Dismantled Media Safeguards and Planted the Seeds of Trumpism
Reagan's deregulation and repeal of the Fairness Doctrine cleared the path for Murdoch’s empire and the propaganda machine that gave rise to Donald…
 • Joshua Powell

January 2026

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