Boreal Expat

One thing that I suppose helps Trump supporters sleep at night is the notion that, despite his rotten, ill-tempered, chaotic, ignorant, con...

Yesterday, I voted in the Finnish presidential election for the first time. But it’s not the first time I’ve voted here. (Non-citizen perma...

Donald Trump, in a cabinet meeting last week after the GOP passed its big tax bill – the only major legislative achievement of his first ye...

Last week we learned that there are up to 1000 US troops stationed in Niger, a force level that even key senators were not aware of. This f...

This is a stupid question, but also a serious one.  Why is the National Anthem played, and people expected to stand, at every pro sport...