By Martin H. Levinson Had Facebook been around during the time of the Crusades, at the start of the American Revolution, or right before World…
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by Michael J. Mangano You grow up in then-unfashionable Brooklyn, become an adult and make enough money to afford moving out of Brooklyn to Manhattan’s fashionable, expensive…
By Martin H. Levinson From the Boston Tea Party to the 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol, Americans have always been partisan and overblown in…
Stephen J. Lyons I am a bad American. My sin: I don’t care one whit about Mars. There, I said it. Go ahead and dox…
By Martin H. Levinson At the end of the day, the day is over. That’s the God’s honest truth. If you want a longer day…
By Martin H. Levinson The three “R”s—reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmetic—were the mainstays of our education system for many years. But students in the 21st century…
By Boaz Dvir In January 1991, when I finished my Israel Defense Forces (IDF) basic training and received my military-service assignment, my family and friends…
By Martin Levinson Effective communication is one of the most essential skills to master to succeed in life. It’s the key to great and long-lasting relationships.…
by Fred Russell How are new words popularized? Mostly in the media, but journalists are only the middlemen of language, picking up on words and…
By Martin H. Levinson The U.S. military has had great success setting up no-fly zones over the lands of foreign enemies. So maybe we should…
By Martin H. Levinson A cognitive bias refers to systematic errors in one’s thinking. Such biases can skew our perceptions and impair our ability to…
Among his other qualities, the president has a homing instinct for slapping nicknames on his perceived enemies, who include much of the world. Since most…
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