A thaw is emerging in United States-China relations, if not an icebreaker, between the largest two global rivals. That became clear on Nov. 15 when the nations…
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Even if the 2016 presidential election had turned out differently — if, say, Donald Trump had been bested in the primaries and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) or…
I’ve been a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma since joining the sorority in college. But according to the organization’s standards, I should be expelled from the group…
The Beatles ended as a rock band in 1970, the year John Lennon sang that “the dream is over” on his first solo album. Yet the Beatle…
I was taking a walk through my neighborhood with a friend yesterday. We were doing our usual “cigar walk,” during which we smoke cigars and stroll along…
Jamal El-Haj is a Social Democratic member of Parliament for Malmö, Sweden’s third-biggest city. In 2018, he called Israel an “apartheid state.” Rather than censure him, Magdalena…
In a country in which individualism sometimes seems to blot out all other values, it was perhaps inevitable that our movie screens were for so long dominated…
Any time you see the words “bipartisan overhaul creating new regulations,” you know that some well-connected lobbyists just scored a major win. Also, you can be sure…
The work of Brit Marling, the screenwriter and actress behind Netflix’s 2016 puzzle box The OA, can only be described as interestingly flawed. That series, her debut…
