by Ethan Casey | Oct 9, 2016 | Bearing the Bruise, Ethan Casey, Haiti, Home Free
There will be a lot to say and write about this U.S. presidential election after the dust settles, if it ever does. For now, suffice it to say that it’s not really about Donald Trump. Trump is a savant, a performance artist whose medium is the rotten state of...
by Pervaiz Lodhie | Oct 8, 2016 | Commentary
Whenever I see a problem, my instinct as an engineer is to try to find a solution. If there is a problem with radicalization of some Muslim youth in America today – and there is – then the solution lies within the Muslim community. There is frustration on every side,...
by Pervaiz Lodhie | Sep 5, 2016 | Commentary
I was a founding member of the Pakistani-American community in Southern California. I arrived in Los Angeles on March 3, 1967, enrolled at Pasadena City College, and gained tremendous practical experience as a nighttime stock clerk at a company that made instruments...
by Ethan Casey | Jun 12, 2016 | Alive and Well in Pakistan, Ethan Casey, Home Free
The appalling mass shooting in Orlando early Sunday morning rips back open the festering confusion about what exactly is going on in today’s world and today’s America. Quickly the gunman was identified as 29-year-old Omar Mateen, an American of Afghan...