From my home country, the US looked like the pinnacle of scientific research and technological innovation, the place to be for any scientist, the place where science was revered, abundantly funded, and rightfully seen as the number one tool for progress and advancement. It made sense that America would be...

I watched the last presidential debate and couldn't believe my eyes.

Senator John McCain, a husband and father, trying to convince the women and men of his country that they should entrust their lives to his judgment, raised his hands, stuck his fingers out in the air and made the...

I came to this country two weeks before September 11 2001. I watched the attacks live on television, I wept and prayed for America, while my family was weeping and praying on the other end of an overseas call. Back home, my mother has a framed facsimile of the original...