One of the worst parts of the entire COVID-19 pandemic has been the scenarios created during end-of-life situations. The heart-wrenching stories of the elderly being alo...
U.S. presidential elections rarely turn on voters’ views on foreign policy. Domestic issues such as the economy and health care, are almost always seen as more important...
My first taste of American greatness was peanut butter.
It was in 1965 or so, in Urmia, my hometown in northwest Iran. I was around 3 years old. The peanut butter was a ...
The prescription opioid crisis that has taken well over 100,000 American lives and ruined hundreds of thousands more wasn’t just an accident of time or the byproduct of ...
In light of increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases in New York state, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has designated certain areas as “red zones.”
Those living in these zones are once ...
People would like to trust their elected officials. That sort of begs for a punchline next, doesn’t it?
In today’s world, even those people chosen to represent the peop...
A complicated conflict in a faraway foreign land isn't likely to compete for attention, but American citizens and policymakers should heed on the spiraling violence in t...
We are in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Today, one in 10 Americans is unemployed, and many more are underemployed or at risk of being furloughed ...
The urge to rescue the airlines flows from good intentions, but another bailout is not a smart way to help the economy and it will reward CEOs for serial mismanagement a...
For a moment’s respite from pandemic news that can seem unrelentingly bad, cast your mind into the future — say, to November 2021. A world in suspended animation has awa...
