By Christoph Reuter in Der Spiegel Driving through the outer districts of the city, a ghostly wasteland begins. The streets and the half-destroyed residential buildings are empty and the only sounds come from shredded metal signs moving in the wind… Read More ›
By Matthew Barber in Syria Comment The plight of thousands of Yazidi women, kidnapped by the Islamic State (IS) during its August 3 attack on Iraq’s Sinjar mountains and in the following weeks, has received some media attention, but most… Read More ›
We don’t often think or take the time to review the details of what Federal Agencies do for us. One that does a lot is the Food and Drug Administration. I receive daily email notices from them. It pays to… Read More ›
How to Turn Syria’s Opposition Into a Real Fighting Force By Kenneth M. Pollack in Foreign Affairs Syria is a hard one. The arguments against the United States’ taking a more active role in ending the vicious three-year-old conflict there… Read More ›
It is the greatest murder mystery of all time, a puzzle that has perplexed criminologists for more than a century and spawned books, films and myriad theories ranging from the plausible to the utterly bizarre. But now, thanks to modern… Read More ›
The United States House of Representatives currently has 21 congressional committees; 20 standing committees and one select committee. All but three committees, the Budget Committee, the Ethics Committee, and the House Administration Committee, are subdivided into subcommittees, each with its… Read More ›
Everything that is Federally governed starts with a law in the US and is legislated by the US Congress. As the population grew following the legislation/law, details emerge that are also addressed either with supplementary legislation or a new law. All… Read More ›
Food security is the basic ability to grow or buy food necessary to meet the nutritional needs of a person or family. Even before the Industrial age, the ability to grow food for personal use decreased as people moved into… Read More ›
For centuries people thought that physique was the defining factor of racial identity. For many of those centuries, they also thought the world was flat. Unfortunately, there are people who still hold firmly to the belief that physique, more commonly… Read More ›
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