Quite by chance, I came across an interesting article on the website of National Public Radio (NPR). It was interesting because it was deeply revealing of our current state of mind and culture. The ...

For almost half a millennium, the phrase "call a spade a spade" has served as a demand to "tell it like it is." It is only in the past century... What happens when a perfectly innocuous phrase takes ...

Members of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) from the British Household Cavalry Regiment walk at the front yard of the Ledra Palace in the UN buffer zone separating the divided ...