The Five-Two

TAX EXEMPT The chapel carries a donor’s name carved deep enough to outlive theology. So does the stadium, the laboratory, the busines...

APOCALYPSE NOW Ooh war, I despise 'Cause it means destruction of innocent lives War means tears, to thousands of mother's eyes ...

LUNCH Sorry to learn that your cat disappeared. It is always best to keep felines and other pets safe inside. Because there are majesti...

RUDY GIULIANI MUTTERS DURING HIS LAST RITES If I could get building-big like I did for that Time Man of the Year cover, I could fina...

ICE SOLVES THE LINE DELAY DILEMMA AT MAJOR AIRPORTS We examine drivers’ licenses, passports, and faces, and listen to them talking, or i...

CARNY ‘Scuse me while I light up. You want one? Ain’t a lot of jobs that lets yiz smoke and work. ‘Course that ain’t the only reason ...

DONALD TRUMPSKY “I have never rated Stalin so highly as to be able to hate him,” Leon Trotsky once observed, the best-known leftwing cr...

HEGSETH What shall we do with the drunken “soldier”, What shall we do with the drunken “soldier”, What shall we do with the drunken “sol...

NOLO CONTENDERE Your honor, I just want to say, it isn’t right, what’s happening. We’re getting so PC, I can’t find anyplace to have a sm...

no. 9 [state of affairs, america] into the unknown, late one march afternoon shuttered with concerns, you lean against a thought sky li...

SENSELESS ACTIONS OF A MAD MAN Our ships are massed on the sea near Iran as bombs and missiles drop by the thousands upon the land, bad ...

FALLING FROM THE SKY It was March of 2026 as they sat in bomb shelters with their families, if they were lucky enough to have that opt...

BASAL CLEAVAGE OF A DRUGSTORE DOLLAR there it stands: hunger open-mouthed and gaping. a hole in the ground full of glossy, shiny thing...

RIGHT Liam will be back, not because a judge ordered it, but because it is right that he be reunited with all that he was taken from, ...

STAIN A Fibonacci poem You can wash blood from your skin, walls, and floors. Launder it from most clothing. But rugs are problemati...

There were no submissions for a few weeks, so I paused the Poem of the Week for March, resuming March 30 to usher in April, National Poetry ...

ALLOW ME Let me introduce you to Allergens. Let me open the door to invisible vibrancy. Was my name only that? I don’t care for it, that m...

SATURDAY AT THE BEACH I’m driving to the protest at the beach thinking I’ve become that old man that so many times I drove by and though...

SAY HER NAME For Renée Nicole Good While stormtroopers terrorize our neighborhoods, assault senior citizens, peaceful protestors, a bla...

BREAK THE CYCLE A Fibonacci poem He failed. Again. Make this the last time. Replace him immediately with someone who: isn't a q...