Ann Jones has written a book that explains why the U.S. is losing in Afghanistan. She is a American journalist and photographer who went to Afghanistan in the winter of 2001 to help the country out as an aid worker and spent four winters there. Her book is part memoir of her time working with a feminist non-government agency (NGO) Madar which helps Afghan widows and also teaching English as a ...
Here's a doctor who teaches at Harvard arguing against the House of Representatives health care bill as a bad bill that will continue our too costly private health insurance system and give bad care. She says this health care bill is a private health insurance takeover of the health care system. She gives good alternatives too: just expand Medicare. First expand it to people 55 to 65. Then ...
P.D. James 2001 novel Death in Holy Orders is much more than an enthralling mystery story. She is the Dostoyevsky of the English novel, making the mystery novel into a great piece of literature. Death in Holy Orders is set in a St. Anselm's, a small theological college on the east coast of England that trains Anglican priests; St. Anselm's has seen two suspicious deaths even before detective ...
