I sat mesmerized as I watched Caroline and Ted Kennedy symbolically pass the torch of Camelot and all it represents to the loyal opposition, Barak Obama, the other day. I started out as a good...
in the courtyard-- box turtle and hummingbird last year's leaves marking my place in this year's book can we learn to look at what's there without needing more? in the bare bush by the bare tree by...
Having spent our glorious university years in Washington D.C., my friends and I recently decided to reconvene in the U.S. capital for a walk down memory lane. We met at the newest Kimpton Hotel: the...
Did I seriously just write the above headline? Heath Ledger was? He was? People die young all the time. There's nothing new under the sun, and tragic death in one's prime is no exception. In many...
Election 2008 is bound to be somewhat of a disappointment, regardless of the possible outcome. This isn't meant as an insult toward the candidates, many of whom are interesting people, but toward our...
In this Southern North American region, it is expected of the women to make impassioned New Year's resolutions to lose weight and look younger. Some of us are sincere in our resolve, others make the...
This is a review of Steve LeVine's The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea. Random House. 2007. Steve LeVine has worked as a freelance journalist for The Wall...
I don’t know if it’s human tendency or just human laziness to sum up a socio-cultural period in a few basic concepts, which may or may not represent the whole. But it sure as hell is human...
The tide has turned against capital punishment in America. The New Jersey legislature abolished its death penalty last week after years of moratorium and state-commissioned study. New York’s death...
Continuing this week's tradition of cool interviews, I bring you a conversation with Dilara Hafiz, one of the authors behind The American Muslim Teenager's Handbook Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom...