.E. G. Singer

Remember playing this childhood game with friends?  A small group of boys and girls would get together and designate one person as IT—and then scatter...

“Who is the slayer, who the victim? Speak.” —Sophocles Please don’t respond again with the outworn phrase, “This is not who we are.” This is...

By E.G. Singer “Reluctant warrior” was the phrase Colin Powell used to describe himself when it came to the various positions he occupied over...

“The Texas state motto, begun in 1930, is ‘friendship.’ The motto, purportedly chosen because the name of Texas or Tejas was the Spanish pronunciation...

There has been much biographical and historical content written about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg over the last 25 years;...

The boiling frog is a fable describing a frog being slowly boiled alive. The premise is that if a frog is...

“Dying is easy, comedy is hard.” This quote is purported to have been spoken by an...

“Them belly full, but we hungry / A hungry mob is an angry mob” Those opening lines are from a 1974 song by reggae musician,...