America
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News
Why Has America Fallen So Hard for Harry and Meghan?
Whether out of Anglophilia, nostalgia, masochism, traditionalism or just a particular strain of fealty to the rich and famous, America’s…
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When American History Turns Into American Mythology
In the realm of folklore and ancient traditions, myths are tales forever retold for their wisdom and underlying truths. Their…
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Making America the Opposite of Great
I admit it: Like many liberals, I’m feeling a fair bit of MAGAfreude — taking some pleasure in the self-destruction…
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Kenneth Rowe, Who Defected From North Korea With His Jet, Dies at 90
Two months after the Korean War armistice, he handed America an intelligence bonanza with his headline-making flight in a Soviet-made…
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World
It’s Noche Buena
What Christmas Eve means for these Latino and Filipino households.
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Books
From Pest to Ecosystem Engineer: The Beaver Gets a Makeover
“Beaverland,” by Leila Philip, offers an appreciative account of the North American rodent, whose habit of taking down trees and…
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News
The U.S. Needs to Change the Way It Does Business With China
In a recent speech, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo suggested an incremental shift in how the United States approaches “competitiveness and…
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News
Iran Uses Rape to Enforce Women’s Modesty
One gauge of the hypocrisy of the Iranian regime is that there are credible reports that it is enforcing its…
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News
A Contagion the U.S. and China Both Fear: Each Other
For decades, the United States and China have each treated the other’s ideology as a kind of infection. Then came…
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News
Trump Struggles, but America Is Still Feverish
Has America’s fever broken? An optimist could make a case. Donald Trump, the central figure in America’s febrile ailment, was…