Eric Redman

So, let’s face it, Democrats have failed in messaging to rural Americans about the actual benefits Democrats have consistently helped achieve. But that’s just the start of Democratic failures in messaging.

It’s worth pausing to explain the force of personality that enabled Abe to succeed where others with equally bright ideas might have failed.

Of things accomplished and the nature of political rivalries.

A naked woman on the cover? I said to myself.  This won’t be appearing in bookstores.

Kawika Wong, the young Hawaiian detective who is the focus of Eric Redman’s newly published mystery “Bones of Hilo,” encounters players whose strange or extreme behavior at once creates suspicion and distractions.

Years ago, I stumbled onto the disturbing possibility that the Navy had dumped spent nuclear material in the ocean off the coast of Washington and Oregon. Over the past five decades, the story has played out in fascinating ways for me, however well-known the truth may be to the Navy, Members of Congress, and — as I relate here — unexpected others.