Photo Credit: upyernoz Beirut On Valentine’s Day 2005, a suicide bomb blast close to Beirut’s seaside promenade killed billionaire former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, along with 21 others. The crime was catapulted to the front lines of international jurisprudence, thanks to the diligent work of Lebanese political partisans and like-minded forces in the global […]

Read more

Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore When a person shows you who they really are you had best pay heed, especially if that person is seeking to gain power. Several weeks ago the Daily Mail reported that at a rally in Ohio, Donald Trump “appeared to compare immigrants to venomous snakes”—by reciting a sixties soul song that […]

Read more

Image Credit: Edel Rodríguez When the United States revealed in January that it is testing a more nimble, more precise version of its B61 atom bomb, some were immediately alarmed. General James Cartwright, a former strategist for President Obama, warned that “going smaller” could make nuclear weapons “more thinkable” and “more usable.” However, what is little known […]

Read more

  Photo Credit: Joe Catron Donald Trump’s political ascendance has been a nightmare for the Republican Party, but a gift for journalists, political analysts, and opinion writers. “Trumpmania” has been dissected in many ways. Hundreds if not thousands of “think pieces” and other types of work have been published on the violence at Trump rallies, […]

Read more

photo: Dzrt Lizard “Come and Take it” shirt In early March, war broke out between San Antonio and Austin over the culinary treasure that some refer to as the “breakfast taco” and natives of its birthplace in deep South Texas call the taquito. The dispute, instigated by an ill-informed online article by a New York […]

Read more