With COVID-19 airborne and threatening to infect more people, Americans are leery of indoor/air travel.  Instead, road-tripping is back -- the adventurous spirit of Kerouac and Steinbeck returns, and the great outdoors awaits.  Americans are blessed with a car culture...

As if the COVID-19 pandemic were not devastating already, 2020 America should have to experience yet another upheaval.  Protests about police brutality and inequality/injustice have broken out in all major cities across the United States, from Minneapolis, New York, Ph...

Covid-19 has undoubtedly devastated the travel industry and changed the ways we would travel in the foreseeable future.  100 million travel sector jobs has been lost, according to one global estimate.  Use of U.S. airlines is down 95 percent, while international travel...

Celebrating Easter Amid the Coronavirus Crisis

Easter, or Resurrection Sunday, commemorates the resurrection of Jesus from the dead.  Easter and holidays related to it — such as Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday, and Good Friday — are called “movable feasts.”  They do not fall...

Amid the Coronavirus/Covid-19 threat, the world is taking measures to avoid public gatherings or mass events.  The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is postponed to October in 2020, Austin cancels South by Southwest Festival, NBA and NHL both halt their sport se...

Sanna Mirella Marin has been serving as Finland’s Prime Minister since December 10, 2019.  A Social Democrat at age 34, she is not only the world's youngest serving state leader but Finland's youngest prime minister.  Her all-women governing cabinet of 5 parities speak...

What's New in the New Decade?

The year of 2020 kicks off the beginning of a new decade.  While no one can make 100% accurate predictions of what’s in store for mankind, one can discern what’s coming in the new decade.  Japan will hold the Summer Olympics while also ende...

The Burning AmazonFor more than 10 years, men have been burning the Amazon rainforest for cattle ranching. While deforestation is also connected to commercial activities for lumber, soy, paper and palm, the cattle industry is responsible for up to 80 percent of the cle...

On June 15, 2012, President Obama announced the policy of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) to enable individuals brought to the US as children to obtain a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and become eligible for a work permit (...

Born on October 2nd, 1869, Mahatma Gandhi was India’s icon for non-violent battle to attain independence from Britain, as well as unity of India. A peaceful fighter he was; the oxymoron within inevitably foretold unsettled sectarian tension between Muslims and Hindu pe...