This week, President Obama will travel to Mexico to visit with President Enrique Peña Nieto, elected to office in December. During his two-day visit, the presidents will discuss a wide range of topics, from expanding our increasingly robust and diverse economic relationship to a host of bilateral, regional and global [...]

Don’t be fooled. Even in this day and age, the ordeal of “coming out” for a gay person can be, and more often than not is, traumatic. In his Sports Illustrated interview out this week, NBA professional basketball player Jason Collins tried to put in words both the anguish of [...]

This entry picks up right where “Привет: Part 2” left off last week. To read “Привет: Part 1,” click here. To read “Привет: Part 2,” click here. In the last two parts, I have taken you through the process of becoming part of my married family and now, in the [...]

This week we recognize Earth Day, a time to both celebrate the natural beauty of our planet and recognize the impact that human activity is having on our habitat. The byproduct of this damaging man-made activity is of course pollution. According to the Environment Protection Agency, the average American throws [...]

Buried on the bottom of the graph- and chart-thick “Markets” page of yesterday’s Washington Post was Michael A. Fletcher’s article on the Pew Research Group’s latest report on the growing wealth inequality between the top seven percent in the U.S., and the rest of us, the 93 percent that constitute [...]

Should the gay community forgive former “ex-gay” superstar John Paulk who reemerged from the closet to offer an insincere, non-apology last week? Or, should it demand penance for his perfidy? Before we address this question, it is critical that we put his despicable deeds in historical context. In the early [...]

Last week I started a multi-part series on my journey from anti-social perfectionist to one day becoming patriarch of my married-into family, on my assimilation into an immigrant dynasty. I described the relative ease with which I got to know Baba (grandma) Klukluka and my in-laws, and suggested that my [...]

Juxtaposing the two videos is jarring. Video number one is an excerpt from a documentary, Chasing the Devil, where the International Healing Foundation’s (IHF) founder, Richard Cohen, is completely unhinged and bares his fangs. “And they took over, they put their faces in the faces of the people,” Cohen barks [...]

Our nation mourns the victims of the horrific tragedy that transpired at the Boston Marathon on Monday. The full force of the FBI, Boston Police, and intelligence agencies are committed to tracking down, and bringing to justice, the perpetrator or perpetrators responsible. This vile act of terrorism also underlines the [...]

“No more hurting people. Peace.” This was what a hand-drawn sign read, held by a wide-eyed little Martin Richard, age 8, in a photograph taken prior to his being killed by the Boston Marathon bombings on Monday. The pathos of the appeal and tragic subsequent development is surely palpable. What [...]