Letter From America
Marion McKeone: The lunatics take over as conspiracy theorists come out for solar eclipse
Like almost everything in American life at the moment, a solar event has become political
On Monday, America’s second total solar eclipse in seven years will pass through Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine before grazing Canada and heading out over the North Atlantic. Around 32 million Americans live in the 115-mile wide ‘path of totality’ that will experience complete darkness in the afternoon as the moon passes between the sun and the earth. Another 35 million are expected to travel ...
