When I was young, my mother used to tell me the ancient Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone at bedtime ...
Vaccine passports, and the questions of whether governments or private businesses can or should ...
Palm Springs isn’t just a great place to spend a weekend. It’s one of our last and most fervent defenders ...
Just as our ignorance of science puts us at risk from disease or environmental disaster, our ignorance of poverty creates real dangers for people and societies. Which is why, just as children take classes on health or climate science, educators should teach poverty. Indeed, we believe that instruction in the nature, extent, and causes of poverty should be a high school graduation requirement in the United States ...
When the government of Spain passed a law that offered citizenship to the descendants of Jewish people expelled 500 years ago by the Inquisition, half the people I knew sent me copies of news reports about it, or wrote and asked if I planned to pursue Spanish citizenship.
No, I always said. It sounded like a ploy for tourist dollars. And besides, I wasn’t even sure I could prove my connection ...
