Beijing saw right through this bluster and remained unruffled. It is fair exchange that makes trade a blessing for humanity. But the American government's tariff policies are nothing short of blatant economic coercion, deliberately obstructing the natural flow of commerce...
7. "Lo atamos con alambre" (Argentina) An expression that reveals the nature of living in parts of Latin America where it’s not uncommon for things to break down,lo atamos con alambremeans to bodge something, or to fix it temporarily, something you might find yourself doing at least ...
I remember the thrill of being sixteen and traveling with my sister alone–internationally–for the very first time. We were in India. Our dad had forced us to go on this trip; he had always stressed the importance of appreciating our heritage. I was scared, as there’s def...
s dance performance, Entre nous, les saisons (“Between you and me, the seasons”), imagines “the fragility of [human] being” (in the environment) not as an alternative to the beguiling notion of a world all our own but as a more perceptive and sensible way of looking at it: ...
boy who lives on the “rez” – reservation – where, he tells us, “no garbage trucks … came to pick up your trash”, the implication being that other people had this service. So, Saturday is Garbage Day, and our narrator and his dad’s job is to haul their garbage to the dump...
Dionysi and Dionysia Brintziki, founders and owners of Ktima Brintziki celebrated the worldwide release of Dia Pyros this week in New York. “Dia Pyros,” meaning “from the fire” has a truly remarkable story of its grapes surviving the terrible “Greek Hellfires” of 2007 when the Brint...
The notion of transgender presupposes fundamental distinctions between the concepts of sex, gender, andsexual orientation(seehuman sexual behavior). Whereas sex is a biological category, gender refers to the set of traits and behaviors that are traditionally associated with a particular sex. A person...
at Cañón de Los Embudos, just south of the U.S.–Mexico border, wherein Geronimo and his warriors agreed to surrender if they would be taken to Florida where their families were being held. The terms were agreed to, but on the way back to theUnited States, Geronimo and a small ...
The majority of pit bulls lead peaceful lives. However, the dogs were bred to be tenacious fighters. According to some sources, this can lead to altercations with other dogs and sometimes with people. Pit bulls and pit bull mixes are responsible for more human and canine fatalities and severe...
The Surrender of Lord CornwallisThe Surrender of Lord Cornwallis(at Yorktown, Virginia, on October 19, 1781), oil on canvas by John Trumbull, completed in 1820; in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, Washington, D.C. The painting captures the moment when major fighting during the American Revolution...