Recently, I had the opportunity to stand in a friendās kitchen eatingĀ pupusas, the Salvadoran national food, while listening to an update on…
The March 4, 2026, edition of the Arizona Daily Star put the facts succinctly: āA Haitian asylum seeker held for four months at Florence…
Follow a line south and west from the Gaza Strip, continue through Egypt, and youāll end up in another place where a…
I first heard the expression āstrategic incompetenceā in El Salvador in December 1993. Along with my partner and two friends, Iād been…
I didnāt want to write this article. In fact, I had something relatively uplifting planned: an Independence Day piece about the rich…
Sometime in the late 1980s, I was talking with a friend on my landline (the only kind of telephone we had then).…
In 2003, the Macedonian police arrested Khaled el-Masri, a German citizen vacationing in their country. They handed the unfortunate man over to…
The expression āpunch-drunk,ā Google informs me, means āstupefied by or as if by a series of heavy blows to the head.ā Googleās…
āI never realized before that men hate us so much.ā That was the lesson drawn by one of my fellow organizers in…
The Washington Post headline reads: āA big problem for young workers: 70- and 80-year-olds who wonāt retire.ā For the first time in history, reports Aden Barton, five…
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