If America Is Such a Happy Place, Why Is the Suicide Rate Up 34% Since the Year 2000?

If America Is Such a Happy Place, Why Is the Suicide Rate Up 34% Since the Year 2000?

What in the world has happened to us? Despite our ridiculously high standard of living compared to the rest of the world, America is a deeply unhappy place. When I was growing up, there were no “smart phones”, the Internet did not exist, if you wanted to buy something you had to actually go to…

The Smell of Betrayal Hangs Over Trump’s Syria Withdrawal

The Smell of Betrayal Hangs Over Trump’s Syria Withdrawal

Kurds are well aware from history that friends are often fickle – so US President Donald Trump’s latest actions on Syria will be seen as following an ancient pattern of treachery.  His decision to withdraw US troops from their alliance with the Kurdish autonomy fighters in northeastern Syria comes only a few days after Turkish…