THE CHIEF IS IN THE HOUSE straddles between the serious and the utterly hilarious as it deals with significant issues of the day. More than an attempt at tongue-in-cheek or satire, the author Joel Pablo Salud takes varying perspectives into play, allowing for crisp and amusing viewpoints into our time. This collection of fifty essays displays a vast range of subjects—from the author’s rambunctious world within the walls of the newsroom to controversies that hounded and continue to hound the country and the world at large. It’s an experiment on humor, but one that puts context into what is otherwise needless verbiage. All original pieces but for a handful published in a roster of magazines, the book celebrates the author’s fifty years, more than half of which spent in writing for, and editing national publications. It’s a tour de force in sociopolitical non-fiction, one spliced by warmth and insight, and where humor plays a box- office role.