by Eli Lake | Sep 15, 2017 | Opinion
Consider the plight of an ethnic group seeking self-determination in the Middle East. Its leaders have renounced terrorism. Their militias fight alongside US soldiers. While their neighbors built weapons of mass destruction, they built a parliament, universities and...
by Margaret Jordan | Jul 4, 2017 | Opinion
When I return to Washington, the city where I was born and raised, I see places others do not. At 21st and K streets NW, I see the cheerful home of my great-grandmother, where a World Bank building now sits. On the rapidly gentrifying corridor near First and Bates...
by Mohammad Ali Salih | Feb 2, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture
Washington- Last week, The Washington Post wrote: “How wonderful it is that Rumi, the 13th-century Muslim versifier, has become the best-selling poet in the United States! He might enjoy knowing that Trump’s America is snapping up translations of his tinged work even...
by Jason Sokol | Jan 25, 2017 | Opinion
Newburyport, Mass. — Every year on the third Monday of January, Americans of all races, backgrounds and ideologies celebrate the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He is rightly lionized and sanctified by whites as well as blacks, by Republicans as well as Democrats. It...
by Amir Taheri | Jan 20, 2017 | Opinion
As Donald Trump takes over as the 45th president of the United States, speculation is rife regarding what he might do with the power that history, via the American electorate, has put at his disposal. As a student of American politics since the 1960s I don’t recall...
