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…
It’s not often an article so lodges in my head that I must reread it three days later. Such is ‘Rotten Ice: Traveling by dogsled in the melting Arctic’ by…
What happens when an essential part of the social safety net frays or disappears? A conversation with my son, Jotham, a lawyer who’s handling some Workers’ Compensation cases, got me…
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…
The election results, which at mid-afternoon seem foreboding, will be known when most see this post. As I distracted myself this afternoon, I happened across a couple of quotations attributed…
‘If God had meant us to vote,’ said the much missed folk singer and labor activist U. Utah Phillips, ‘He’d have given us candidates.’ On this, the pointedly funny…
Marcia Angell is a doctor, a crusader for reform in medicine, a fine writer and a first-rank muckraker. I’ve admired her work for years. Going through a…