Studying Xi Jinping’s manipulation of language is a disorienting mental exercise. It is nonetheless crucial since Xi and the Chinese Communist Party routinely co-opt and redefine concepts…
I admire the United States with a passion that I sometimes find scary. I like almost everything about it: the optimism, the impatience, the drive-thrus, the record…
There is yet another reason to quit the twice-yearly tradition of changing our clocks back and forth an hour. A new study found that sticking to daylight…
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In American music, a handful of innovators stand apart from all those who followed. Jazz had Louis Armstrong and then Charlie Parker. Country had Jimmie Rodgers and…
Here’s a story that one often hears about American politics these days: Political conflict is driven by disagreement about facts about the world, and so disagreement stems…
It’s spring 1917, the third year of war. In Northern Germany, a teenager forges his mother’s signature and joins the Kaiser’s army. His name is Paul Baumer,…
The emblematic figure of American life in 2008 was Barack Obama, the one we had been waiting for, the hinge between eras, the basketball fan who taught…
The legendary American artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) painted in a realistic style and refused to bow to the dictates of modern art, saying he didn’t believe…
In a dramatic shift from just a few months prior, the once-hot real estate market is quickly cooling as home sales fall off due to soaring mortgage…
