Amy Coney Barrett, one of President Trump’s short-list selections for the Supreme Court, is by all accounts a likeable person and a popular professor at the University of Notre Dame. Her membership in the People…
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YouTube superstar Logan Paul posted a video of a dead body in Japan’s so-called “suicide forest” in his vlog, in what was perhaps the most abhorrent video of 2017, a year which saw numerous counterpoints…
Something happened quietly over the long holiday weekend. Perhaps it wasn’t entirely quiet – at least not among the many social media supporters of author, former Salon editor and frequent news commentator Joan Walsh. Walsh…
Being an American myself, I don’t like the term “ugly Americans,” but sometimes it fits. Joseph Dasilva and Travis Dasilva, a married couple from San Diego, call themselves the “Traveling Butts” as they take pictures…
Most Americans know about Small Business Saturday – it’s 72 percent of them, according to last year’s survey by sponsor American Express and the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB). They’ve also become pretty supportive…
The response to my recent article on this site, “A king’s funeral and a chance to show the world the best of Thai culture,” was overwhelming. Thanks to all the thousands Thai people who took…
We love pomp – grand spectacles of celebration or mourning, which give us as humans a deeper connection to a loved one and to each other. Even as we may try to lead modest lives,…