Without comparing one historical era to another, suffice it to say that we live in a nation filled with anger, despair and at best anxiety. Our ideolo...

A recent survey showed that the reason people are reluctant to go back to the office has nothing to do with COVID, but with their commute. It’s not th...

I suppose even the most ardent technologists have at times wanted to get off the grid...usually that urge doesn't last long. But for the people of Gre...

While the issue of systemic racism, along with a long history racial conflict occupies a large portion of our social and political landscape, the issu...

It wasn’t very long ago that to see a foreign language film, you wound up in the smallest theater in the multiplex or a little art theater somewhere i...

For journalism, it may be the best of times and the worst of times. On the one hand, the national media is more vibrant than ever. The New York Times,...

The more we know about disasters, the more we realize that most were preordained. Covid 19 or Katrina, the current fires in California or the deep fre...

Survey after survey shows that trust in the news media is at an all time low. And it’s not just the left/right divide. A recent study by the American ...

Almost everywhere in the world, liberal democracy is, if not under siege, or at least being tested. Only in rare historical times have would-be autocr...

From Alexis de Tocqueville, to Alexander Solzhenitsyn to John Lennon, it has often taken those born outside of America to help us understand and defin...