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Few generations in the history of civilization have shown more promise in their youth but been more of a disappointment in their adulthood and aging than my generation, the “Boomers,”…

Many Americans these days believe they have absorbed Eastern wisdom and are all but enlightened. But the Eastern graft onto the Western mind has been superficial and unfruitful. To be…

America’s former FBI Director, James Comey (whose ham-handed public handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails less than two weeks before the election helped get Donald Trump elected), says…

World News – China struck back Wednesday at the U.S. with $16 billion in retaliatory tariffs, exactly matching President Donald Trump’s latest escalation in the ongoing international trade war.

The most difficult things in the world are to understand oneself, one’s intimates, and one’s country, in that order. This concerns my country, the United States of America, which is…

World News – Tough-talking Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced his country’s “separation” from long-time ally America Thursday, declaring that he was pivoting instead to China.

Sometimes, you don’t need to read any further than the headlines. “The Torture Report Reminds Us What America Was,” reads the title of an op-ed piece in the New York…

Meditations – If the situation with Russia gets any worse, millennials may start building bomb shelters again. As the New York Times says, “The dispute over Mr. Snowden is less a singular…