Since early summer, children and families falling through holes in the safety net have kept reporters busy in Massachusetts and Vermont. Neglect and murder, the horror stories never end. Nor…
Considering the US through the prism of stories in the Bahamian press reveals facets of the flawed, cracking diamond that is our country. Drug Wars Uber Alles The Punch, The…
‘America’s present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy….’[1] So said Warren Harding in his successful campaign for president in 1920. But how different was Harding’s ‘normalcy’…
Why do the illegals keep coming? The journey of terrors to reach water in the US doesn’t stop them. Neither the certainty of life off the books nor the chance…
My mother shut off topics that approached her well-defended borders of propriety. Her eyes would slowly rise above the lenses of her half glasses to meet the speaker’s. ‘Do I…
‘Dies irae, dies illa’. ‘Day of wrath, day of anger’. That line from Mozart’s Requiem in D Minor greeted me when I turned on ABC Classic…
A civil liberties lawyers is a Cassandra. Unlike Chicken Little, though, the Trojan prophet’s sky did fall. Harvey Silverglate, has served in this role for almost half…