Boreal Expat

Last week occurred one of the most shameful episodes in US politics. Even more troubling than the precipitous firing of an FBI director in ...

I can’t say I have a head for learning languages. Not by a long shot. That’s unfortunate, since I ended up in a situation where being a fu...

I didn’t manage to cover, as I originally planned to do, all the parties involved in the Helsinki city council election, at least not befor...

There are four parties in the Helsinki city council race that can be described as “leftist”. The two that I’ve talked about already I called...

Not surprisingly for a European country, and you might say especially for one that was on the fringes of the Russian Revolution, leftist po...