In 2011, Lara Logan, a CBS reporter, was in Cairo’s Tahrir Square covering the Arab Spring celebration– the peaceful overthrow of Hosni Murbaraks’ military dictatorship.   The crowd was jubilant as they sang and danced in the streets, so the reporter was surprised when her

  I  came across an acronym recently which puzzled me. Someone critical of J. K. Rowling’s position on transgender women accused the writer of being TERF.  I had to look up the term and found it means activists who seek to limit full equality for transgender people and exclud

The anniversary may have escaped many of us, but 2022 is the year in which the film, Soylent Green is set.  The story depicts a time when human activity has so depleted natural resources, humans can no longer grow crops to sustain themselves.  The living survive by eating the dead.�

“Are you willing to fight for your country?” This was the question in a 2015 Gallop poll taken across 64 countries.  The results were surprising. Nations with the largest number of patriots were among the least developed, their positive responses as high at 80-90 percent.  Weste