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The Insider Is Back, Sassier than Ever!


Canada as the 51st State? Forget About It!
By Debra Perron / Calgary, Alberta
3 days ago


Let’s Go to the Movies! Summer of ’26 Edition
By Laurence Lerman / New York City
3 days ago


It’s a Spring Thing
By Bonnie Fishman / San Francisco Bay Area
3 days ago


Trains of Thought from The Maiden and The Maven
By Lydia Hope Wilen / New York City
& Stan Fischler / North Golan Heights, Israel
3 days ago


Preoccupied? Fixated? Consumed? Hooked? Welcome to the Club!
By Dr. Nancy Fishman / Morgan Hill, Calif.
3 days ago


3 days ago


Jeffrey Sachs: The Iran War and the Coming Economic Devastation
From The Tucker Carlson Show
3 days ago


The Spurious Indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center
By Jessie Seigel / Washington, D.C. | from "My Washington Whispers"
3 days ago


Trump Furious After JD Vance Covers Him with a Sheet
By Andy Borowitz / The Borowitz Report
3 days ago
The Week


My Pandemic Tech Tale
By Matt Nadelson / New York City
Jul 26, 2023


A Fond Farewell From The Beck Sisters
Sienna, Willa and Olive Beck / New York City
Jul 24, 2023


A Few Laughs, and Now a Few Tears
By Steve Cash / Detroit
Jul 24, 2023


Soul Purpose
By Bonnie Fishman / San Francisco Bay Area
Jul 24, 2023


Love, Loss and the Art of Saying Goodbye
By Dr. Nancy Fishman / Morgan Hill, Calif.
Jul 24, 2023


Reel Streaming No. 131: The World is Changed
By Laurence Lerman / New York City
Jul 24, 2023


An Insider Love Letter
By Marieke Slovin Lewis / Seattle
Jul 24, 2023


The Insider as Therapist
A Poem by Dr. Barry Lubetkin / New York City
Jul 24, 2023


Happy Trails to You, Until We Meet Again
By Jeffrey Markowitz / Detroit
Jul 24, 2023


Sayonara, It’s Been Great!
By Judi Markowitz / Detroit
Jul 24, 2023


We May Be Done With Covid, but Covid Is Not Done With Us
By Fred Plotkin / New York
Jul 24, 2023


Thank Goodness for Covid
By Alan Resnick / Detroit
Jul 24, 2023


Right at Home: Closing Thoughts From Our Domestic Engineer!
By Victoria Rolfe / Red Hook, N.Y.
Jul 24, 2023


Life Rekindled During a Pandemic
By John Rolfe / Red Hook, N.Y.
Jul 24, 2023


Greetings to Fellow Insiders!
By Jeffrey Sachs / Beijing
Jul 24, 2023


Aisle Seat: That's All, Folks!
By Naomi Serviss / New York City
Jul 24, 2023


Washington Will Keep Whispering!
By Jessie Seigel / Washington, D.C.
Jul 24, 2023


The Only Reason To Be Sorry the Pandemic Ended
By Lydia Hope Wilen / New York City
Jul 24, 2023


Game Over!
By John Woodford / Ann Arbor, Mich.
Jul 23, 2023
Fred Plotkin on Fridays


Daniel Serafin: How to Stage “Carmen” in a Quarry
Fred Plotkin, a pleasure activist and passionate Italy and culinary expert, speaks each Friday with leading people in the arts
Jul 17, 2023
Jeffrey D. Sachs


Questions surrounding the origins of COVID-19 remain unanswered
By Jeffrey D. Sachs and Neil L. Harrison from The Boston Globe
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May 31, 2022
Pilfered from the Internet


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Apr 27, 2021
Letters to the Editor


Letters to the Editor
This week we hear from Insiders Anita Saesing/Scottsdale Az. and Susie Silverman/Omaha Neb.
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Feb 4, 2021
Andy Borowitz


Unskilled Florida Man Regrets Missing Out on Being Enslaved
The Borowitz Report from NewYorker.com
Jul 25, 2023
In the Mix


Sleepless in the "Safe Room" – A Menacing Missile Story
By Stan Fischler / North Golan Heights, Israel
Apr 17


Warning to Congress: Trump is Psychologically Unstable and Dangerous
By Jeffrey Sachs et al. from Common Dreams
Apr 17


Top This Delivery, Amazon!
By Judi Markowitz / Huntington Woods, Mich.
Apr 17


Poetry Girl
By Sienna Sachs Beck / New York City
Apr 17


Joining the Peace Corps: When We Were the Good Guys
By Amy Lennard Goehner / Hudson, N.Y.
Apr 17


Don't Blame Netanyahu for Trump's Actions
By Jessie Seigel / Washington, D.C. | from "My Washington Whispers"
Apr 17


Jeffrey Sachs: Trump's Naval Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz
From Glenn Diesen's Substack
Apr 17


Saturday Night Lorne!
By Laurence Lerman / New York City
Apr 17


As Margareta Taught Us, No One Wants Your Junk After You Die!
By Marilyn Mars / Santa Fe, New Mexico
Apr 17


Mussels in Brussels
By Bonnie Fishman / San Francisco Bay Area
Apr 17


Iran Allows Ship With Epstein Files Through Strait of Hormuz
By Andy Borowitz / The Borowitz Report
Apr 17


Are We Ever Too Old to Marry?
By Dr. Nancy Fishman / Morgan Hill, Calif.
Apr 17
Recipes for Disaster


Recipes for Disaster: Sweeten Up Your Pandemic Breakfast
By Debra Turner
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Feb 11, 2021
Aggravation is a Full-Time Job


Mum Comes Home To Roost at Last (Sort of)
By John Rolfe
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Oct 22, 2020
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