Why this matters—a short note on what's actually being defended at
Gretna East, and why it's the right of every student, not just the ones
with bylines.
May 04 · 2026 · 2 min
A guest editorial by Aidan McClaren—on Gretna East, the Hazelwood
standard, and why Nebraska still has no New Voices law.
Apr 24 · 2026 · A. McClaren
The footage exists. The gap between what it shows and what the government says
happened is where this story lives—and why the people holding the cameras became
the next targets.
Apr 02 · 2026 · 12 min
An update on the formal appeal filed with the Gretna Public Schools Board
of Education over the removal of an editorial cartoon and the prior review
imposed on follow-up reporting.
Mar 31 · 2026 · 2 min
A student journalist's editorial cartoon was forced off the page by school
administrators. Now it's here. See it for yourself and decide why they didn't
want you to.
Feb 10 · 2026 · A. McClaren
The U.S. isn't risking default. This is Congress failing to fund
government—a shutdown born of political choice, not fiscal necessity.
Oct 01 · 2025 · 3 min
America's civic reflex to political violence has withered. Kennedy united
the country in mourning; Kirk united it only in partisan crossfire.
Sep 28 · 2025 · 11 min
Germany built institutional guardrails against authoritarianism after
Nazism—eternity clauses, militant democracy, constitutional
patriotism. America, built on a triumphant founding myth, never did.
Sep 14 · 2025 · 12 min
A warning about where we're headed. I had no respect for the man—but
his assassination isn't a win. It's a collapse of politics itself, and
the logic that justifies it doesn't stay contained.
Sep 11 · 2025 · 2 min
America calls itself a democracy, but unelected courts, agencies, and
structural biases—Senate math, the Electoral College, gerrymandering—
routinely override the majority will.
Sep 08 · 2025 · 10 min
A column on why floating Greenland annexation as serious policy alienates
the NATO partners that underwrite American power—and what the alliance
costs to rebuild once you've torn it.
Gretna East Media · Column
A column on what happens when frontier models start reasoning in shorthand
their operators can't inspect—and why that opacity is its own safety problem.
Gretna East Media · Column