The old ambassador had me at “hoodwinked.” When he added “bamboozled” and “railroaded,” I was in Seventh Heaven, as always [...]

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After being delivered to a child psychologist to exorcise my affection for all things gone – my inner world hinged [...]

One day soon the United States will strike a face-saving deal to extricate its troops from Afghanistan. It will be [...]

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Long before I started going blind, I was an only child in a capital city. A more practical way of [...]

What emanated from this American president is not fascism, as some are wont to believe, but monarchism. This president is [...]

I never liked vanity, let alone its fairgrounds. Self-effacement governed my mood. Imagining an exuberantly selfish president like Donald Trump, [...]