POLITICAL STRATEGIES
Several political strategies, that require an absence of integrity, have been perfected by Donald Trump during his successful campaign to return to the U.S. Presidency. …
NORAD TRACKS SANTA
NORAD Tracks Santa is an annual official program in which North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) publishes the tracking of Santa Claus, who is said to leave the North Pole to travel …
THE BEALE CIPHERS
I had never heard of the Beale Ciphers until I recently read an article in, of all things, the Popular Mechanics magazine. The Beale Ciphers …
BRAIN DRAIN
The phrase “Brain Drain” usually refers to the migration of the intellectual elite of one place to another place. This is often driven by deteriorating …
AMERICAN DEMOCRACY’S STRESS TEST
American democracy’s stress test. American democracy is about to undergo a serious stress test, according to a former journalist who lived through the slow and …
LEWES
The town of Lewes, with its picturesque cottages and bustling high street full of antiquarian bookshops and artisanal bakeries, might seem the very model of …
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Trump has promised to eliminate the Department of Education. In 1786, Thomas Jefferson wrote to a colleague about public education: “NO OTHER SURE FOUNDATION …
PERU’S NEW MEGAPORT
Peru’s new megaport has been built by the Chinese. It is part of their worldwide strategy, called “Belt and Road” which pores millions of dollars …
HISPANIC HERITAGE
“I am an American with Hispanic heritage”. That was a response from someone living close to the border between the U.S. and Mexico, who was …
ELECTION PREDICTION
Election prediction is obviously not my forte. My gut had told me it might be a landslide, and I was right. The only problem was …