Our house
I and millions of other Americans recoiled in shock and anger at the first images of the demolition of the East Wing of the White House. Wrecking cranes scavenged through the rubble like raptors in Jurassic Park. From the air, the sacred site looked like it had been bombed. The White House belongs to the American people: it’s not the private property of our billionaire president. Yet he claims the right to do whatever he wants with it – tear off a wing or burn it to the ground. He is planning to build a massive gold-gilded ballroom reminiscent of the Russian Tsar’s Imperial ...