After Americans elected Donald Trump to the United States’ presidency in 2016, Mexicans, it seems, are going to elect their own nationalist president in 2018. Voters in many different countries increasingly are embracing politicians...
It was Wednesday, May 2. I had arrived in New York City, or more precisely lower Manhattan, the night before. I got up on Wednesday morning and ate a big breakfast (eggs, sausage, yogurt,...
Rain bombs are coming, and they’ll hit land with not only more frequency but more force. Officially labeled wet microbursts, the highly intense and destructive blasts of water will strike communities which are completely...
It is Tuesday, May 1, a week after I landed at Ronald Reagan Airport in Washington, D.C. Today, Maria, my niece, and I are going by city bus from Tenleytown to Georgetown and the...
It is Saturday, April 28, exactly 4 days after I landed at Ronald Reagan Airport in Washington, D.C. Today, Maria, my 14-year old niece, and I are traveling, by car, on a short trip...
It is Friday, April 27, several days after I landed at Ronald Reagan Airport in Washington, D.C. Today, Maria, my 14-year old niece, and I are going to the National Portrait Gallery in downtown...
How much more money do billionaires need to be happy? The patterns of behavior in the global economy are disturbing. Those who manipulate the economy are helping themselves to more wealth all the time...
The foods we eat and the way we produce them not only are killing ourselves. They are destroying other forms of life on Earth. For years, scientists have warned that our way of life...
The future holds large-scale death and destruction, and misery for the survivors, if human beings fail to solve a long list of environmental problems growing steadily worse on Earth today. It is the second...
In the United States, as the opioid epidemic rages on, killing more than 140 people every day, many critics, who have long complained of an inadequate response to the epidemic by the federal government,...
