A bird out of hand: My reminiscences on the rise and fall of Twitter.
Twitter should be destroyed. It should not exist anywhere, at any time, in any incarnation. It is evil.
Sean Munger
The death of Hu Yaobang: The first chapter of a story that changed the world.
How the prosaic demise of a Chinese Communist bureaucrat triggered one of the most important movements in recent history.
The forgotten victim of the Lincoln assassination plot: The attack on William Seward.
While Booth was shooting Lincoln at Ford's Theater, another terrible crime was happening just blocks away.
Toward a theory on the death of the Democratic Party.
The modern Democratic Party is the least successful political organization in American history. Here are my thoughts on why.
Forgotten flight: The lonely voyage of Apollo 6, and the terrible day it happened.
On April 4, 1968, an unmanned rocket blasted off from Florida. Turned out it was a good day to leave Earth.
Behind the Scenes: Millard Fillmore, The Conspiracy Theorist President.
My latest video profiles the strange life and odd beliefs of the 13th U.S. President.
Interiors: Olden Church, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway.
Places like this are the essence of folk life in Norway in the 18th century.