Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.
Amanda LindhoutThe everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
Charles KuraltThere are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude.
Regina BrettThe U.S. relationship with Bahrain is obviously more complicated than with Syria and Iran.
Rebecca MacKinnon