Paul G's Corner

<p>On a quiet Saturday morning in 2018, Hawaii got the worst text message imaginable:Ballistic missile inbound. This is not a drill.</p><p>For 38 minutes, an entire state waited for nuclear fire that never...

<p>In 1976, hundreds of American Legion veterans walked into a Philadelphia hotel for a weekend of reunions, war stories, and cheap drinks. Within days, dozens would be dead. No suspect. No pattern. No explanation. Just...

<p>Nothing says welcome back to Paul G’s Corner like learning the world nearly cooked itself in 1969 while everyone was cheering for astronauts and yelling about Vietnam.</p><p>History loves to hide the real disasters...

<p>Most Americans remember the smoke, the debris, the sirens of September 11.Far fewer remember what came next.</p><p>A week later, before the country even finished counting its dead, something quieter slipped into the...

<p>One word. Seventy-three dead.On Christmas Eve, 1913, someone yelled fire in a packed miner’s hall — and changed building safety forever.</p><p>Every outward-swinging door, every glowing exit sign, exists because of...

<p>Chicago. 1912.The air hung heavy—coal smoke and lake wind trapped between brick tenements and unkept promises. It was an age of mediums and miracle cures, when grief was a business and hope came bottled or...

<p>In 1964, deep in the Nevada desert, America tried to make a nuclear reactor fly.At a place called Jackass Flats — a name too perfect to be a coincidence — engineers tested an engine that could have changed the course...

<p>Some people escape their past. Others study it, survive it, and turn it into a lesson for the rest of us.</p><p>This week on Paul G’s Corner, I talk with Meg Hall, a nurse who grew up in a home defined by control...

<p>The American dream didn’t vanish—it got shrink-wrapped, up-charged, and delivered late.</p><p>This week on Paul G’s Corner, I talk with Micco Costello, a former restaurant owner turned activist who’s calling out the...

<p>This week in Paul G’s Corner, we sit down with Eugene Mandelcorn — a man who’s heard more bad film pitches than a Little League coach on a losing streak.</p><p></p><p>Eugene ran an international filmmakers’ group for...

<p>In 1962, the Pentagon’s highest brass drafted a plan that reads today like madness on paper. They called it Operation Northwoods. The logic was simple, the methods monstrous: stage terrorist attacks on American soil...

<p>They call it Project Broken Arrow. A phrase meant to sound clean, contained, under control. But the truth is anything but. Since the 1950s, American bombers have dropped nuclear weapons into oceans, onto farmland...

<p>In 1927, a hospital “cure” for ringworm burned a child’s skull. He wore a hat for eighty years. This is the record—how a promise of progress became a lifetime of harm.</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Paul G's Corner...

<p>Karen Silkwood knew too much. What happened to her on that empty Oklahoma highway still echoes in Congress, in courtrooms—and in the dark.</p><p>This is The Woman Who Glowed in the Dark.A true story. A corporate...

<p>February 1984. A second bomb rips through the National War College. No casualties. No arrests. Just another hole in the floor and a deeper one in the American psyche. Most people don’t remember it ever...