On a page titled “TO LINGER WITH,” this website reproduces lines that seem to merit reflection, including a verse written by the 19th-century American poet, James Russell Lowell:
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Events and places compel attention, but the world can do with voices that insist on “Sanity first!”
The “America first!” slogan fetched clinching votes a few months ago for Trump,
Does the “friendly neighbor” exist anymore in international relations? “Y-yes,” some may hesitantly say as they welcome the EU-UK agreement to revive a few of the mutual favors
We are in an unpredictable and probably unstable moment, but I want to start by passing on the note of extremely cautious but pleasant surprise shared in a lead article
The following paragraphs were written but not posted on this site when word came that India has launched what it claims are “focused, measured, and non-escalatory” actions on “nine
Significant news this week from different parts of a world shaken by recent events includes the Liberal Party’s victory in Canada, which will be seen as an unanticipated consequence
In December 1936, a boy born in Buenos Aires to migrants from Italy was named Jorge Mario Bergoglio. At the age of 22, after becoming a chemical technician and working
An enduring law of economics states that prices, whether of goods or stocks, are influenced as much by expectations as by current supply and demand. An unmissable reality of the
While Trump’s tariff bombshells preoccupied the world, New Delhi’s Hindu nationalist government was launching a fresh strike on India’s Muslim minority. Prime Minister Modi’s government enacted
Earthquakes typically don’t have a season, but right now many across the globe are being jolted day after day. While Myanmar (and places in neighboring Thailand) experienced high-order
Today’s troubled and perhaps fevered world can do with one bold nation that is not drawn to the road of “might is right,” one that searches instead for the
Are we moving, have we already moved, to a new world order where raw power brazenly trumps values? Thus far the world has extolled, at least on paper, or in
