Canada’s air force will have to wait a few extra years to get the armed drones it has been promised for more than a decade — because, among other things, the pilotless air… Read More

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  Cinco de Mayo is a Mexican celebration that is strangely more popular abroad than within Mexico. For the average Mexican, Cinco de Mayo carries little to no meaningful impact, unlike… Read More

Thus far, several of our Christian friends have contacted my husband and me, asking "How are you doing during this difficult time?" As if, because we are Jewish, it's worse for us that Israe… Read More

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“You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” Most of us are probably familiar with this quote from ‘The Dark Knight’ movie. Two… Read More

Matthew Desmond previously wrote about our housing crisis in Evicted. His 2023 book, Poverty By America, is a broader examination of socio-economic dysfunction. Life for the poor is harde… Read More

Recommendation Over the course of her career, National Public Radio’s Nina Totenberg has built a distinguished journalism portfolio and a family of friends she describes with insight a… Read More

As Samwise says, Well, I'm back! Lately I have been trying to figure out why everything in American politics has become such a shit-show -- the Trump disaster, abortion rights, LBGTQ ri… Read More