Category: Features

An ocean of ink has been devoted to the surprising election results in Virginia, New Jersey, and especially Massachusetts. There is so much angst in …

One of the greatest, though unsung, heroes of the Marshall Islands is my friend Gene Savage. With one simple act, he altered the existence of …

I am in a group phone interview with Gary Johnson, the former construction-company owner and libertarian-leaning Republican who was governor of New Mexico for two …

Jerome David (“J.D.”) Salinger wrote what may be the most influential American novel of the 20th century, “The Catcher in the Rye” (1951). “Catcher” is …

On January 20, the first news day after the Massachusetts election, the headline in my local paper, the San Diego Union-Tribune, was this: “Patient Access …

President Obama’s decision to travel to Florida to announce federal grants to the states for high- speed trains on the day after his State of …

President Obama has failed to learn the simple basic lesson that the Pilgrims, who established the tradition of Thanksgiving Day in 1623 (not 1621, as …

A memorable phrase in an historic speech sometimes becomes the name by which the speech is remembered: I have a dream. Ich bin ein Berliner. …

What of Barack Obama, one year on? I argued a year ago in these pages (“Same as the Old Boss?”, March 2009), that he was …

I am in India. When I lived and worked here, few things were world-class. One was a private airline company, Jet Airways. Now it is …