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You forget how exciting the idea of America is until you're away for a while. Then you see it. The...

There were maybe a half-dozen tents in all, filled with these homeless people, in the shade of General Grant's tree.

What makes Americans seem special to people everywhere else is the ease with which we seem to break out of...

Many Americans view the early 1960s as a golden age, one reason for the popularity of the TV show. While...

Imagine Atlanta layered on top of a Soviet-era street grid, filled with a young, teeming population of go-getters. This is...

We lease it back to any rail line wanting to use it, for a surcharge. Easy to pay off over...

Security is the claimed excuse for all this. But every study I've seen indicates the new "security measures" do nothing...

We can't have both a free trade agreement and a de facto state of war. The road we are going...

There seems to be an unspoken agreement among drivers about the risk they are willing to accept on the highway....

Since 9-11, Americans have become increasingly insular. They have been encouraged in this by a xenophobic government. The falling dollar...