"I roar". Lemuel Gulliver famously sprawled, with Lilliputians,1894. Wikicommons/ Charles E.Brock. Some rights reserved.If we want to grasp the impact of Brexit on citizens’ and workers’ rights, we must mentally detach ourselves…

Originally published in the Post on May 22, 1920. Of course, we did have our bits of the higher life once in a while in the old days. Whenever the…

Yezidi women protest in front of European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium on 08.09.2014. Picture by Wiktor Dabkowski/DPA/PA Images. All rights reserved.The protection of women continues to be an ill-addressed challenge…

Originally published on March 12 1966. Even now, saying it aloud or, later, repeating that sentence to my husband, I will see that it is meant to amuse, to attract…

04 July 2018, Berlin, Germany: Viktor Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary, sitting in front of a European flag at a meeting with Bundestag President Schaeuble in the German Bundestag. Bernd…

This story is a runner-up in our 2019 Great American Fiction Contest. See all of the winners.  The instructor was bent like a question mark, a corona of gray hair…

Brett Kavanaugh claims he has no memory of Christine Blasey Ford. Furthermore, he “never did anything remotely resembling what Dr. Ford describes.” To her. Or to anyone.  Either he is…

Eno Alfred Adeogun. All rights reserved.This story starts with an invitation to appear as witness on “The Morality of Diversity” in the BBC Radio 4 “The Moral Maze” series, presented by…

Margaret Wister paused, as always, before descending the sun-bleached wooden stairway to the beach, not to get her breath but to look about her. Her terry robe was as old…

For those in the military, sleep can mean the difference between life and death. But shut-eye can be very hard to come by, especially during active conflict. According to Sharon…

The president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, in the middle, embraces the Venezuelan leader Diosdado Cabello under the watchful eye of the First Lady Rosario Murillo during a celebration of the…