Scott Martelle
Scott Martelle is a former Times staff writer and member of the editorial board. He also is the author of several nonfiction books on such disparate subjects as the Ludlow Massacre and 1913-14 Colorado coalfield war, the history of Detroit, and William Walker, the pre-Civil War American adventurer who for a brief time made himself president of Nicaragua.
Latest From This Author
COVID-19 left us grappling with the second economic meltdown in a decade. Here are ways we can make our system better for the people who do the labor.
June 8, 2021
South Carolina has approved a law requiring the condemned to choose between a firing squad or the electric chair if the state can’t find the drugs to kill them.
May 17, 2021
The Biden administration approved the nation’s first large wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts. California will need to do its part, too.
May 11, 2021
Six people were killed in another Colorado mass shooting over the weekend. Such gun violence is, sadly, normal here in the land of the free.
May 10, 2021
A mismatch between 2019 census state-level estimates and the 2020 numbers released this week suggests GOP efforts to skew the count may have worked.
April 29, 2021
Biden has backed away from plans to ramp up refugee resettlements, a disappointment to the refugees and contrary to our moral responsibility.
April 16, 2021
Esto es lo normal en Estados Unidos: la violencia armada diaria, la carnicería diaria, la indiferencia diaria.
April 11, 2021
The Amazon organizing drive spotlights unions’ bigger problem: persuading Americans exactly how vital they are to our working lives.
April 9, 2021
This is what is normal in the United States: daily gun violence, daily carnage, daily indifference.
April 9, 2021
The American Petroleum Institute says it now supports a carbon tax. They’re a little late to the parade, but welcome. And the world must do a lot more than tax carbon.
March 25, 2021