I walked my ballot up to the drop box at the neighborhood high school last week, and for a few minutes, in the company of the autumn leaves and all those other voters, i...
Bored with the pandemic, my neighbors are going all out for Halloween.
One yard is covered with skeletons — pushing their way out of the ground, walking skeleton dogs, d...
When you listen carefully enough and long enough to a variety of epidemiologists, you can start to see that their pandemic strategies are converging — or at least comple...
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media...
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 ...
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...