GENKAKU-AGAIN (adam fisher)

Farmers in India are not the only farmers committing suicide due to the stresses of an agricultural lifestyle. The ones committed to feedi...

To Americans and Britons, the Nordic countries have come to represent a near-mythical paradise of gender equality and family harmony, w...

Despite owning majorities in both houses of Congress and the executive, Donald Trump has failed to produce a single piece of legislation du...

I'm not sure which noose special counsel Robert Mueller is tightening in his investigation of alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U....

Today I miss my old friend Bill McKechnie, a guy with whom I was in the army and the kind of man who could see the whimsical title, "T...

Posted elsewhere, but it seems to want a wider footprint: If others are like me, there is a collection of nudges ...

Passed along in email ... this take on happiness

What I want to know is, if, as India suggested, the Sri Lankan cricket team was made up of a bunch of sissies who faked their reactions t...

Back in a time when a million dollars was not chump change, there was a joke about two black guys sitting in the sunshine on a back porch...

Perhaps Donald Trump has taken a fake-news page from Mohandas Ghandi's works and will don a button that reads: BECOME THE SWAMP YOU...

The United Nations monitor on extreme poverty and human rights has embarked on a coast-to-coast tour of the US to hold the world’s rich...

Every now and then something will yank my ingrained chain and I will marvel at the ignorance I had consumed and digested and to some exte...

Portuguese man o' war The feeding frenzy engulfing an increasingly milquetoast news media is focused on the past advances made by ...

From the department of agitation and propaganda: Which is it? TOO STUPID TO BE ASHAMED or TOO DEPRIVED TO BE ASHAMED Or is this jus...

It is hard to be calmed even by so flinty a wit as Winston Churchill to whom the line is often attributed, "Democracy is the worst f...

Curling is a kind of shuffleboard on ice. During the competition, the curler or skip slides a stone towards the concentric rings of a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — An art exhibit at a New York City college seemed innocuous enough, mostly seascapes and still-life paintings of flower...

Out beyond the whispering fierceness of old age -- out where parallel lines meet and the edges of a flat earth are unfurled -- there seem...

I have to admit that I wish other news outlets and individuals adduced similar logic and resources:

The new feudalism in the United States has gotten a boost from an increasingly vocal segment of the population that feels public funding ...

CHENGDU, China (Reuters) - Chinese street barber Xiong Gaowu deftly scrapes a straight razor along the inside of his customer’s eyelid ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he’s not playing ball with Time magazine as it decides its Person of the Year . The magazin...

I have always been a sucker for beauty. I 'know' this is true in my heart of hearts, but I have a hard time defining what I am ...

Like a pinball bouncing from bumper to bumper and yet never seeming to drop, the idea has banged around in my head -- a question of...

JERUSALEM (AP) — A former Israeli combat officer turned whistleblower has found himself in the fight of his lifetime, leading a campaig...

I don't know that I need to read a whole book about it, but this Guardian excerpt was pretty enjoyable: From inboxing to thought ...

And when it comes to letting a cat out of the bag -- not entirely, mind you, but close enough -- there is the case of and Israeli diploma...

LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan/KABUL (Reuters) - As U.S. and Afghan forces pound Taliban drug factories this week, farmers in the country’s l...

In the long ago and faraway, when the Soviet Union was so big that it had 13 time zones, I used to wonder at the muffled coverage accorde...

"Manipulative cowardice" -- the tart observation came unbidden into my mind after a phone call I received yesterday from a woma...