It was in a trattoria on the Piazza Navona in early April of 1974 that for the first but not the last time I heard Gabriel ...

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

I'm taking the Amtrak Vermonter train down to Maryland. It's a chilly morning right now. Cool is the word I choose to use.

In early January, most of the major military forces of Iran participated in a large military exercise called Payambar-e Azam ...

Biomes as well as individual ecosystems throughout the globe are experiencing considerable stress. As a researcher/writer ...

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. – Friedrich Nietzsche Listen ...

Only days before he will leave office, President Joe Biden on January 14 finally removed Cuba from the U.S. list of state ...

Babel, whose original derivation from the Hebrew name for Babylon dates even further back to Akkadian—an extinct East Semitic ...

We Must All Fall, But We Must Rise Again and Again There is a silence to be discovered in the lives of others: There is a ...

Let's review. 2024 was an especially violent year. It was also the hottest on record. While most countries exist in high ...

On January 20th, 2025, the Presidential Inauguration will fall on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Reflections on King reveal ...

The final missions of Army Sergeants Mathew Livelsberger and Shamsud-Din Jabbar left millions of other Americans scratching their heads.  Why would two much-saluted young men—who served their country ...