By the very nature of their status, opposition parties everywhere have a delicate balancing act to perform: how to convey the impression...

President Donald Trump faces a significant challenge over the next few months to hang on to office and survive the gravest of charges...

As of this writing Apple has briefly attained an estimated market valuation of $800 billion USD, easily making it the most valuable...

Most presidents of the United States search for a catchphrase that best encapsulates their vision for the nation: JFK called his “The New...

Most presidents of the United States search for a catchphrase that best encapsulates their vision for the nation: JFK called his “The New...

When we think of charismatic, visionary Canadian politicians the surname Trudeau usually comes to mind, whether prefaced with a “Pierre”,...

'Dragon Age: Inquisition' (DAI) is a fantasy game. That word -- fantasy -- suggests to us that this game has dragons, elves, and magic,...

Honor In the soul? Where is it? Where does honor reside? A man can touch the stars But his soul is a mystery? Why? Maybe because...

Most of our efforts go badly. The model airplane does not fly, the new home is not quite what we thought it would be, the marriage is...

It turns out that the Republic is alive and well. The first quarter of 2017 has brought a pleasant surprise: in vivid contrast to...

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Based on external appearances alone, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe seems like an amiable sort, the kind (to paraphrase Margaret...

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For a moment, he soared. On rhetorical wings crafted from feathers provided by daughter Ivanka and Chief Strategist Steve Bannon,...

Impressed by Donald Trump’s announcement of his first foreign-policy acts as president: building the Mexico Wall, the No-Muslims Wall,...

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“Blitzkrieg” first exploded into the global lexicon in 1939/40 as Nazi Germany’s forces stormed across western Europe with all the...

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It’s always dangerous, not to mention presumptuous, to try and armchair analyze someone whom one has never met or known personally, much...

<This is the fourth article in a series intended as a brief retrospective of the Barack Obama presidency. Not intended to be exhaustive...