Truly American mass shootings
On Saturday evening, I was in the middle of dinner with my American friends when we heard that a gunman started shooting at cars near Odessa, Texas. Seven people were killed and at least 22 people were wounded, including a 17-month-old girl. Authorities have...
“Trump is an imperfect messenger, but Democrats failed people”
Minneapolis As I entered the gates of the Minnesota State Fair on its opening weekend, the scene around temporarily transported me back to South Asia. A sea of people, scorching sun and scores of food vendors, including those selling footlong hot dogs and shaved ice....
WPI report 5: 9/11 anniversary in New York
Where were you on 9\11? Think about it – any of you old enough will have an answer. It’s amazing how the human brain is capable of archiving all the details, surrounding our day when terrible events like this occur. My 9/11 actually came 24 hours earlier – when...
Time to make humankind great again
When I was a child in the 1980s, we had these books called “My Friends” where your friends would write things about themselves: their favorite food, their dreameds, what they wanted to do as adults, etc. The book included a question about your worst fear. It seemed...
Trump Breaks the Foreign-policy Consensus
Since the beginning of his campaign to be the G.O.P.’s candidate in the Presidential election, Donald J. Trump has already suggested to build a wall along the border to Mexico, to increase imports tax, stated that he would fight ISIS and that the U.S. should not...
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