The International Day of Peace can hopefully help us probe what peace means–Soon it’ll be Christmas and we shall talk about the spirit of peace, and then do what we do every year and go back to our ordinary selves forgetting all about it. But peace is more than a wish, more than a slogan…

Dual citizenship enriches one’s understanding and does not divide loyalties–More and more people are becoming dual citizens, holding U.S. passports along with passports from their native countries. It is a trend that is disturbing many traditionalists, saying that one cannot be loyal to both the United States and another country. Obviously those who say this…

What united us after 9/11 can do so again if we make the effort to reconnect to it–After the 9/11 tragedy, we ceased to be separate groups. We weren’t young and old, blacks and non-blacks, Democrats and Republicans or rich and poor, we were one people. Given the reaction of the world, it can be…