LAST week in this paper, I wrote about something that happened on a New York street. One man was chasing another man, the latter was screaming and seemed very frightened, and the former had what looked like a gun in his pocket.

Why would we choose to live somewhere it takes guts to live in, when life is already tough enough? 

On Tuesday, US voters are deciding who to represent them in The Senate, The House of Representatives, and dozens of State governorships are on the ballot too.

MEDIEVAL Ireland sounds so cool to me. I have to adjust my mind to understand how, back in the 7th, 8th, and 9th centuries, the island was blanketed in forests, which were home to wolves, deer, and wild boars.

Activist: 'The real question is why millions aren’t in civil resistance rather than why I am'

Many people who have not even committed a crime that caused anyone any physical injury are serving the same sentence as the Parkland shooter who murdered 17 people and injured 17 more in a Florida school in 2018

A giant puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian girl resonates with so many people

At Tehran University in 1979, students hung a banner in Farsi that translates as "the measure of a free society is the measure of women's freedom in that society. " If that is true, and I think it is, then 43 years later, no Iranians are free.

We need to prepare for a more extreme climate system - and put the solutions in place

TV news networks in the United States have committed enormous resources to covering the death of Queen Elizabeth, an event that has no material impact on anyone's lives there — and people are watching.