Let Locals Work Their Land
In Africa, the Chinese have acquired large plots of land to build farms and develop new food sources for a large population back home. Rising demand by Chinese consumers has exceeded the capacity of...
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Burning Forests with the EPA
In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and its chief, Scott Pruitt, are doing the exact opposite of what they’re supposed to be doing. Their latest action is one more in a...
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Can Mexico Produce Its Own Food?
After Americans elected Donald Trump to the United States’ presidency in 2016, Mexicans, it seems, are going to elect their own nationalist president in 2018. Voters in many different countries increasingly are embracing politicians...
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MoMA and the Met in NYC
It was Wednesday, May 2. I had arrived in New York City, or more precisely lower Manhattan, the night before. I got up on Wednesday morning and ate a big breakfast (eggs, sausage, yogurt,...
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Where Will the Bombs Hit Next?
Rain bombs are coming, and they’ll hit land with not only more frequency but more force. Officially labeled wet microbursts, the highly intense and destructive blasts of water will strike communities which are completely...
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Dumbarton Oaks, Museum and Gardens
It is Tuesday, May 1, a week after I landed at Ronald Reagan Airport in Washington, D.C. Today, Maria, my niece, and I are going by city bus from Tenleytown to Georgetown and the...
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Harpers Ferry: Remembering John Brown
It is Saturday, April 28, exactly 4 days after I landed at Ronald Reagan Airport in Washington, D.C. Today, Maria, my 14-year old niece, and I are traveling, by car, on a short trip...
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Washington, D.C., National Portrait Gallery
It is Friday, April 27, several days after I landed at Ronald Reagan Airport in Washington, D.C. Today, Maria, my 14-year old niece, and I are going to the National Portrait Gallery in downtown...
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Inequality Dooms Us All
How much more money do billionaires need to be happy? The patterns of behavior in the global economy are disturbing. Those who manipulate the economy are helping themselves to more wealth all the time...
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Change Our Diet, Save Our Planet
The foods we eat and the way we produce them not only are killing ourselves. They are destroying other forms of life on Earth. For years, scientists have warned that our way of life...
Let Locals Work Their Land
In Africa, the Chinese have acquired large plots of land to build farms and develop new food sources for a large population back home. Rising demand by Chinese consumers has exceeded the capacity of...
Burning Forests with the EPA
In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and its chief, Scott Pruitt, are doing the exact opposite of what they’re supposed to be doing. Their latest action is one more in a...
Can Mexico Produce Its Own Food?
After Americans elected Donald Trump to the United States’ presidency in 2016, Mexicans, it seems, are going to elect their own nationalist president in 2018. Voters in many different countries increasingly are embracing politicians...
MoMA and the Met in NYC
It was Wednesday, May 2. I had arrived in New York City, or more precisely lower Manhattan, the night before. I got up on Wednesday morning and ate a big breakfast (eggs, sausage, yogurt,...
Where Will the Bombs Hit Next?
Rain bombs are coming, and they’ll hit land with not only more frequency but more force. Officially labeled wet microbursts, the highly intense and destructive blasts of water will strike communities which are completely...
Dumbarton Oaks, Museum and Gardens
It is Tuesday, May 1, a week after I landed at Ronald Reagan Airport in Washington, D.C. Today, Maria, my niece, and I are going by city bus from Tenleytown to Georgetown and the...
Harpers Ferry: Remembering John Brown
It is Saturday, April 28, exactly 4 days after I landed at Ronald Reagan Airport in Washington, D.C. Today, Maria, my 14-year old niece, and I are traveling, by car, on a short trip...
Washington, D.C., National Portrait Gallery
It is Friday, April 27, several days after I landed at Ronald Reagan Airport in Washington, D.C. Today, Maria, my 14-year old niece, and I are going to the National Portrait Gallery in downtown...
Inequality Dooms Us All
How much more money do billionaires need to be happy? The patterns of behavior in the global economy are disturbing. Those who manipulate the economy are helping themselves to more wealth all the time...
Change Our Diet, Save Our Planet
The foods we eat and the way we produce them not only are killing ourselves. They are destroying other forms of life on Earth. For years, scientists have warned that our way of life...