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Americans are gearing up to elect their president in November 2020, for a four-year term beginning in January 2021. The choice will be between the current president, Republican Donald J. Trump, or one of 23 declared Democratic candidates. Leading the Democratic...
By KANI XULAM 6/1/2014 “If you can’t explain it to a six-year-old, you don’t understand it yourself,” said Albert Einstein once...
By KANI XULAM December and bad news come together in Turkey. Two years ago, it was the Turkish planes that bombed a caravan of...
By Kani Xulam “To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.” -- Elie Wiesel, Nazi concentration camp survivor...
By KANI XULAM “When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.” --William Shakespeare, King Lear That...
By KANI XULAM Aug 9, 2013 Trouble is ominously brewing in the once-quiet, northeastern Kurdish corner of Syria where violent...
By KANI XULAM 6/10/2013 For centuries, the old Ottoman Turkish Empire ruled half the world. Is it rising again? Does the “Arab...
By KANI XULAM 5/18/2013 “Beware, lest you lose the substance, By grasping at the shadow.” --Aesop If a car is white when it...