News item: “Forty-million American have trouble getting to sleep at night.” Seeing that, I thought about my experience after leaving…
On September 3 the board of supervisors of California’s rural Siskiyou County, right next to the Oregon border, voted to…
When the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991a cluster of newly independent states was created. Some, such as Belarus, stayed very…
California Governor Jerry Brown made no secret of his wish that a high-speed rail line from northern to southern California…
The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad By Lesley Hazleton (Riverhead Books, 320 pages, $27.95) Egypt’s violence should be seen…
For about a generation now fierce Chechen warriors have been trying to wrest from Russia their land in the Caucasus…
Harry O’Connor died last week. He was a hero of the Reagan movement, largely unsung, but a hero nonetheless. It…
Calvin Coolidge, who became the 30th President, was born on the Fourth of July, as if Divine Providence had decided…