Seeking sanity on Syrian refugees

 ISIS boasts that it's embedding its fighters in the flood of refugees escaping war-torn Syria. Frontline Greece says it doesn't have the resources to properly screen the tsunami of humanity. Brussels, after years of looking the other way, is on lockdown looking for terrorists involved in planning  the Paris attacks and more,  who travel freely in a borderless …

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Paris horror: sad, angry and seeking solutions

Our friends in Paris are safe: "shocked, sad, anxious, but safe." But also angry, en colère.   A lot of their children's friends and school mates were injured; a university friend, 21 years old, is dead. Here at home, we remember the Marathon bombing and try to multiply it thirtyfold. And, as we were Boston Strong, so …

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