By Ande Jacobson I’ve long been wary of indoctrination. The Concise Oxford English dictionary defines the verb indoctrinate as: “Cause to accept a set of beliefs uncritically through repeated instr…

In Conversation with Zerlina Maxwell

Thousands of people gathered outside the John F.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the use of AI, ghostwriters, and editors, and what authorship really means.

I am not celebrating today. I will celebrate when the current regime has been removed, and the US is back on track working toward the ideals set forth by the founders. I doubt we'll ever regain the pl...

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By Ande Jacobson Although I am a Californian through and through, over the course of about 10 years, I spent a lot of time in the Washington, D.C. area, first for two vacation trips, then later for…

By Ande Jacobson I am not a journalist. I am not a celebrity. I am just an American. I spent my career working as a software/systems engineer for a couple of major government contractors. I also gr…

By Ande Jacobson Pray for Silence is the second book in Linda Castillo’s Kate Burkholder series. This one picks up where the first one left off, and Kate and her team are again faced with a horribl…

And How to Stop It

By Ande Jacobson I don’t like politics, but I have voted in every election since I turned 18 because I see it as my civic duty as an American to not only vote, but do so responsibly. I don’t like p…

By Ande Jacobson There’s a serious misconception driven by decades of GOP propaganda regarding taxes. While there is a group of pro-business/anti-regulation Republicans who see tax cuts as the cure…

By Ande Jacobson I had a disturbing discussion with a good friend the other day. We got into a discussion about gay and trans rights. While neither of us are gay or trans, we know and love people w…

By Ande Jacobson Teri Kanefield has had multiple careers from teaching, to practicing law as an appellate attorney, to entertaining and informing through her writing. There is some overlap in all o…

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By Ande Jacobson Everyone experiences trauma of one sort or another during their lifetime, often more than once. For some, it’s part of the normal cycle of life such as losing an elderly grandparen…

By Ande Jacobson For the last several years, I’ve given up sending a holiday letter out or posting one on social media or my website talking about what I’d done over the course of the year. Instead…

By Ande Jacobson The latest Dan Brown book, The Secret of Secrets, is a wild ride. This sixth Robert Langdon book was released in September 2025 and is a little longer than typical Dan Brown fare. …

By Ande Jacobson For several years now Teri Kanefield has been trying to help people understand how we got to where we are in the U.S. and the world, and more importantly, what we can do about it. …

By Ande Jacobson 107 Days by Kamala Harris reads like a combination of a thoughtful diary, a comprehensive memoir of the crushingly short campaign, and a message of hope and determination from a wo…