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Back to SearchThe real Chinese American experience
Several trends are shaping the world today. One is immigration and migration. The mass movement of peoples from rural to urban area and across bord…
11 years, 9 months ago
The beginning of an era and the end of innocence
For ten days in March 1971, the Rolling Stones traveled by train and bus to play two shows a night in many of the small theaters and town halls where…
11 years, 9 months ago
Where's the beef?
To paraphrase Shakespeare, that fault is not in our food, but in choices we make. Specifically about what we eat, where it comes from and the policy …
11 years, 9 months ago
How the immigrant feels
Immigration seems the issue on everyone's mind today. Yet with all the thinking and all the talking, we forget half the story. It’s not just about …
11 years, 9 months ago
A Spymaster's Story
It’s easy to forget that long before the intelligence failures of 9/11, the misinformation about Iraq's WMDs and what has become almost the militariz…
11 years, 9 months ago
A Spymaster's Story
It’s easy to forget that long before the intelligence failures of 9/11, the misinformation about Iraq's WMDs and what has become almost the militariz…
11 years, 9 months ago
Dead laws and broken government
We all know that our system of government is broken. Mostly we attribute it to bickering and bitter partisanship. But also, in part, it’s the fault…
11 years, 9 months ago
Why John Wayne still matters
Back in the last 1960’s there was a very famous ad campaign that asked, What Becomes a Legend Most? In fact, the real answer to that question is not…
11 years, 9 months ago
The Bronx is calling
Whether you grew up in a big city or a small town, if you moved away and then went back to visit, years later, everything had probably changed.
It …
11 years, 9 months ago
The tangled roots of American independence
History is a funny thing. Time goes by, books are written and we think we know all there is to know about a particular time and place. Yet the com…
11 years, 9 months ago