Born in the USA

The Homeland Security officer at Houston airport asked what we were going to do in the United States. I wanted…

Peter Jennings

Peter Charles Jennings, television and radio journalist: born Toronto, Ontario 29 July 1938; staff, ABC News 1964-2005, international anchor, World…

After all, who didn’t go through the most improbable adventure during the civil war? – Mikhail Bulgakov, Black Snow When…

Something bit me. In fact, lots of things were gnawing at me. Their chewing progressed up my leg to my…

Note: In 1987, Charles Glass’s journey through Greater Syria from Alexandretta in southern Turkey to Aqaba on the Red Sea…

In Robert Bolt’s play “A Man for All Seasons,” Sir Thomas More is confronted by Richard Rich, whose perjury will…

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Socialist Worker interviews Charles Glass. Revelations on the illegal occupation of Iraq Question: Revelations reported in the Guardian last week…

When Syria’s young president, Bashar Assad, contemplates the forces ranged against him, he may recall that his father faced greater…

For the sixth time in as many months, a woman has cancelled our dinner. In and of itself, a cancelled…