What Do I Know?

 A week or so ago an attorney arguing before the US Supreme Court claimed:  [ You can read the transcript here  page 28.] "but, yes, it...

Is Putin pulling Trump's strings?  Let's look at some of the signs. What are Putin's biggest obstacles? 1.  NATO, as weak as...

We'd just gotten back from a Bainbridge library Great Decisions presentation by Dr. Reşat Kasaba, Director of the Henry M. Jackson Sch...

The world is complex and we face plenty of challenges.  Unless we're willing to stop accepting simplistic (and often nationalistic) expl...

I haven't commented on this because everyone else has and because I have nothing to add.  But as I listen to all the speculation, I do h...

Syria's been in the headlines about two years now, but where is it?  How many of you have pulled out a map and studied this country s...

While Shell Oil has had a lot of trouble with its oil rig the Kulluk , four Russians on the Kulik expedition have managed to navigate around...

Besides babysitting, we did get to stop at the library Saturday morning for a Great Decisions film and speakers on modern Egypt.   A former ...

How much of success is nature?  How much is nurture?  Is it your talent?  Hard work?  Or good luck and helping hands? Malcolm Gladwell&#...

Map from Lonely Planet [The Lohan-Pakistan comparison is at the end.] Declan Walsh is a Guardian reporter who's been in Pakist...

 I'm trying to catch up with older unfinished posts. This one's from the George Washington University bookstore in DC from ou...

In a post last Friday about the resignation letter of an American State Department  employee in Afghanistan, I listed helping Afghan women ...