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Like many people both inside and outside the United States, I’m an admirer of Michelle Obama. And back in 2016, when she made the remark, I ...

The old saying is that one swallow doesn’t make a summer. This year, our challenge has been to see whether one summer could make six swallow...

As war rages in Iran, it’s worth pausing to imagine a different kind of leadership. Smoke over Tehran following an Israeli attack on 13 June...

There was a time when the police in Britain didn’t announce that a suspect had been arrested. The person in question would be ‘helping polic...

A few days before the New Year, Matilda and Elliott came to see us in our home in La Cañada, near Valencia.  Well, they brought their parent...

It may not be the best literary diet for a twelve-year-old, to read Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World one week, and George Orwell’s 1984 the...

Dinosaurs. Planets. Two subjects that have fascinated kids for at least a couple of generations. What’s surprising is how impactful a conver...