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Probably because the very idea of suicide is repellent to us, we tend to think of it as being rare. In fact, suicide is more common than we’d like to …

In the wake of the success of the #BringBackOurGirls Twitter hashtag campaign, the mainstream media are now giving more time to the ongoing tragedy in Nigeria. The Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram …

It’s called the Switzerland of South America. Its citizens are mostly of European stock. It is a Social Democracy that offers free education, legal marijuana, abortion, and same-sex marriage, and …

The Mayor of Torrance, California recently had to face a real-life Bruce Springsteen lyric: “These jobs are going, boys, and they ain’t coming back.” This week, Toyota announced it was …

 The Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington DC, is one our nation’s most respected research organizations for identifying and exploring issues and trends that shape and influence …

The talk of the weekend was the alleged recording of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling. On the tape, the person identified as Sterling makes a series of virulently racist …

Remember when you were twelve, and you promised your mother you’d wait here after school until she or your father left work to pick you up? As soon as you …

See more Living in… posts by Bruce Haring. Say “Colombia,” and what springs to mind?  The beaches, the women, the temperate climate, the warm and friendly people? Or perhaps, are you thinking …

North Korea’s security thugs have arrested their third foreign tourist in the past six months — but this one was an American seeking to defect to the Communist nation. According …

“You like potato and I like potahto You like tomato and I like tomahto Potato, potahto, tomato, tomahto Let’s call the whole thing off!” — “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off” …