The writer disabuses us of a few misconceptions surrounding a shrewd president with strong support in the Arab world.

After translating for former Iranian President Khatami, Ahmadinejad’s people shoehorned the writer in as interpreter at the UN.

Hooman Majd on the upcoming Iranian election.

Hooman Majd reveals some facts about the Islamic republic that could surprise Americans.

Jon Stewart’s recent rant against—and subsequent interview with—Mad Money’s Jim Cramer was the latest incident of a comedian to initiate a thoughtful debate on a headline-grabbing issue. In this age […]

rnrnFirst it is an academic article only, at which I tried to use the Physic’s Chaotic theory, modern conditioning theory of human behavior and David X. Li’s mathematic model to predict the chance of Coup d’e tat in Pakistan.rnrn*Warning: It is only an academic guess, which was the first time to use the above- said three models to predict Coup d’e tat ! rnrn

The year 2000 was not a good time to be young and in charge, particularly in New Jersey. It was October of that year when Union City mayor Rudy Garcia […]

In March 2003, I served as a member of the prosecution team that drafted an indictment against the then-President of Liberia, Charles Taylor. The crucial role of the International Criminal […]

Are you 'reading' this oped on paper, or are you 'screening' it online?

More bad climate news out of the journal Science—the Earth, as a whole, has been seeing less and less of the sun over the last 30 years. Maybe the global […]

The economic pinch making it harder to make ends meet and you know what that means. Crime is back in vogue! And while bad people are doing bad things all […]

I know that I just shot an arrow into the war of Atheism Vs. Christianity but if we have time can we also discuss this topic. I’m a laymen and […]

Does everyone need to suffer? Should an image of Nouriel Roubini as standard-level modelizer trouble us?  Probably not. As much as we might like the idea of him holed up […]

Shall we expect a political stalemate or the largest economic rescue plan in the history of the universe next month in London? If for no one but Gordon Brown’s sake, […]

The Global Billionaires Club may be getting smaller by the minute, but there are still pockets of heavy growth. For example, Mexican drug lords are doing well. That’s why Forbes […]

What causes the Housing bubble and the result of recession! (See the cunning Greenspan, he only mentioned Housing Bubble not recession in his article! I do not buy it). ANSWER: THE PHILOSOPHICAL FLAW OF CAPITALISM!

Albert Einstein once opined, “you can’t solve a problem with the same mind that created it.”  How then, can we begin to cure our global economic ailments using the same […]

Love it or hate it, broadcasting the minutiae of one’s life on Twitter has become the serial writing skill du jour. But, as the LA Times blogs, the medium is […]

A bizarre cottage industry born out of the war in Iraq carries a few lessons about humans and the economy. One, Saddam Hussein was one of the most iconic tyrants […]

Expository Essay exploring the traits of Down Syndrome, and how to predict this syndrome.