Words and classifications help us understand the many events before us. In  the Middle East especially, words are of extreme importance an...

I love the American saying “ if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and it looks like a duck it’s got to be a duck ” for those that...

The term gerrymandering was coined out of the undemocratic actions of a governor of my home state; Governor Gerry of Massachusetts . Gov...

I heard about this book from an interview of Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air with the author Hisham Mater. In the interview Mater talk...

This is easily the best book I can recommend to anyone on the Iraq war. Anthony Shadid, a third generation Arab American, who speaks flue...

At the turn of the Twentieth Century when Great Britain was the undisputed global power, with vast colonies stretching across the whole worl...

"God who told the first killer, Cain, “The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to Me from the ground.”…To His justice, the blood o...

Often time as I run in Boston my mind takes me back to Cairo, the city of my childhood, and I look at the Charles River but I really see...