Americas

The Public Editor’s Journal Blog: Guardian Story on Israel and N.S.A. Is Not ‘Surprising’ Enough to Cover

By MARGARET SULLIVAN THE NEW YORK TIMES September 16, 2013 Many Times readers have been writing to me for several days about a story The Guardian broke last week, describing how the United States routinely shares with Israel intelligence information that the National Security Agency gathers on American citizens. The […]

Scenic “Mount Vernon” is in Texas

By Saeed Qureshi While searching through Texas Tourism Department’s website for finding the sight-seeing places around Dallas/Fort Worth, we came across a curious name: “Mount Vernon”. Although there were quite a few other scenic locations, yet we decided to visit this place. It is one of those unique towns that […]

How to Immediately Improve Your Life

Huff Post: by Arianna Huffington. Philosophers have known this for centuries. “No one can live happily who has regard for himself alone and transforms everything into a question of his own utility,” wrote the first-century Stoic philosopher Seneca in his Moral Letters to Lucilius. And in practically every religious tradition and practice, giving […]