Saturday was a wonderful day as we in the Czech Republic watched the polls close and the returns come in on the presidential election. Our adopted country chose a good person, a true leader, over a self-serving corrupt corporatist as their new head of state. That was fabulous, but the …
Since late 2018, I have had the privilege of living in Prague, Czech Republic. This is not a perfect nation, no nation is, but it has an open, democratic society with civil rights. We were able to emigrate to the Czech Republic because it has a clear, and as far …
I grew up in the United States late in the Cold War. I was one of the Americans continually told to beware of the Soviet evil empire and a threat of nuclear war always simmered in the background. But it was all rather a distant notion—a hypothetical that few thought …
We attended a peaceful demonstration in support of Black Lives Matter. People gathered in front of the US embassy in Prague to lay flowers and signs to protest racism and police brutality. The Prague police, probably at the urging of the US embassy, were out in force, but there was …
