I walk almost daily up into the Santa Fe National Forest along with neighbors and our dogs, and I am always reminded how ...

As a Jew in a Catholic college, one of two Jewish students in my class, I had to take lots of philosophy. My motivation for ...

The progressive regional current, the “Pink Tide,” could be better called “troubled waters” in 2024. The tide had already ...

I’m not a big fan of these “best of” lists, but of all the new(ish) arts entertainment (or edutainment, as KRS-One would say) I consumed these past twelve ...

Major portions of the Arabian Peninsula are already exceeding 2°C above pre-industrial and likely headed for a staggering ...

Mining magnates seem to have it all.  Far more significant than royalty, such figures are the unelected captains of industry ...

What do Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. have in common? They’re all sports superstars, ...

Donald Trump and the Marlboro Man are case studies of branding success. When Philip Morris introduced the cowboy on its ads ...

In these difficult times, the voice of the late Palestinian-American scholar, Edward Said is ever present, “Writing is the ...

Cubans numbering hundreds of thousands marched on December 20 along Havana’s emblematic Malecon roadway fronting the Florida ...

This week, the New York Times reported that the U.S. government made war in Afghanistan while helping to “recruit, train and pay for lawless bands of ...

This is the sixth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia — to spend some time in worlds beyond the ...