Lux Americana

The Caribbean’s largest island, Cuba, has been off limits to Americans since the Kennedy era. It remains the only place in the world which Americans are forbidden to visit by their own government.
President Obama’s recent removal of travel restrictions for Cuban Americans visiting family has given hope to those who assert our freedom to travel [...]

On an episode of Dutch television program Advocaat van de Duivel (The Devil’s Advocate) airing last month, a civil jury of five found Osama bin Laden not guilty on the charges of ordering and financing the attacks of September 11, 2001, and being the head of Al Qaeda.
The immigration debate in the Netherlands has been [...]

Just in time to preemptively address the inevitable international remembrance of the 20-year anniversary of the Tiananmen  Square massacre, the Chinese State Council released its “Human Rights Action Plan” for the next two years on Monday.  Unfortunately, the “plan” contains very few concrete actions to be taken that will actually improve civil liberties.
The document primarily [...]

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has responded to international outrage over his recent signature on the Shi’ite Personal Status Law – which Barack Obama has called “abhorrent,” and is being viewed by some as tantamount to legalized rape.
“We understand the concerns of our allies in the international community. Those concerns may be out of an inappropriate [...]

In early 1939, during the run-up to war with Germany, the British propaganda ministry created these posters – “Keep Calm and Carry On” – in order to reassure the people, and remind them that all would be okay, no matter how dire the circumstances, if only they would not fall into fear and paranoia.
While very [...]

Is Mexico in danger of becoming a failed state in our own backyard?  Violence has been erupting across the nation in recent months as the drug cartels fight each other over territory and terrorize the local populations, and it’s spilling over into the United States.
Vice President Joe Biden said recently;
“Since the beginning of last year, [...]