A great nation—and optimistically speaking, any nation—is supposed to represent all its inhabitants, equally and without discrimination. It shouldn’t see a difference between people of different sexual orientations, between people of different races, between the personal beliefs of its citizens. And yet, in many countries—commonly third-world and second-world ones, but unfortunately often also in first-world [...]

From time to time, I feel like life is passing by much slower and at the same time much faster than I would like it to. Not the actual passing of time, this is not a case of seconds and minutes flying past the progression of life. It is so much more — this is [...]