It is almost 4 years since I started writing this blog with the laudable goal of promoting moderation over extremism. Most of the...

As we enter 2024 we can expect more traffic in the middle of the road. This will be mainly due to Republican candidates for everything...

In the non-medical sense, dysfunction can be defined as unhealthy or problematic behaviors and attitudes within a social system. I...

I have long felt that the practice of characterizing political positions as "left" or "right" with the qualifiers "center", "moderate"...

Indian Prime Minister Modi's visit to the US has drawn the attention of Americans to India - the world's largest democracy. At first...

Time flies, they say, and I did not realize that it is almost two months since my last post. The long silence is certainly not due to a...

I don't know if the number of mass shootings in the US, defined as those with three or more fatalities, exceeds the number of days in the...

...is defined as a dilemma from which there is no escape because of mutually conflicting or dependent conditions and accurately describes...

As we start the new year, we can wish each other the best but should probably be prepared for something less. If the goings-on in the...

It has been said that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. While the results of the mid-term elections could be considered a mixed...

As the dust settles after Election '22 I would like to share my experience with the election process. I have lived in the US for most of...

With Election '22 a week away one thing is clear - the premise underlying my decision to start this blog more than two years ago has been...

The passing of Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev took me back three decades to the - take your pick - turn of the century/ end of the USSR/...

The term, cost of living, normally represents the cost of necessities like food, shelter, clothing etc. While health care also is...

... goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall." Although these words come from Proverbs 16:18, the sentiment is common...

At the end of his eulogy to Caesar, Marc Antony, knowing he had succeeded in turning the Roman mob against Brutus and his...

Today is the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in; hence the title of this post which stands for Committee to Re-elect the...

...or stupidity? Earlier this month when President Biden announced discontinuation of the use of Title 42 to deny entry to migrants at...

The Emmett Till Anti-lynching Act was recently passed by Congress and signed into law by President Biden. News reports mostly emphasized...

This post was inspired by a recent op-ed by George Will titled "How America became nation of the woke and the wary". In it Mr. Will...