World
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A Big T.V. Hit Is a Conservative Fantasy Liberals Should Watch
We may vote once a year, but most of us watch television every day. Pop culture says a lot about…
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New York’s Hottest Club Is the Catholic Church
As senior churchmen seek to make Catholicism palatable to modernity, members of a small but significant scene are turning to…
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Guatemala’s Corrupt Officials Train Their Sights on the Press
MEXICO CITY — When I last saw José Rubén Zamora, the owner and director of Guatemala’s leading investigative newspaper, elPeriódico,…
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Three Sentences That Could Change the World — and Your Life
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ Today’s show is built around three simple sentences: “Future people count. There could be…
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Why China’s People No Longer Look Up to America
BEIJING — My generation of Chinese looked up to the United States. When I was a university student in northwestern…
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Did Democrats Just Save Civilization?
They really did it. The Inflation Reduction Act, which is mainly a climate change bill with a side helping of…
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When Sexual Liberation Is Oppressive
The conclusion of Louise Perry’s “The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century,”…
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A Choice of Mooncakes for the Mid-Autumn Festival
It’s a good month before the Mid-Autumn Festival (Sept. 10), also called the Moon Festival, is celebrated in Asian communities.…
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Olivia Newton-John, Pop Singer and ‘Grease’ Star, Dies at 73
Olivia Newton-John, who sang some of the biggest hits of the 1970s and ’80s while recasting her image as the…
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Do Spiders Dream of Eight-Legged Sheep?
By day, jumping spiders hunt their prey, stalking and pouncing like cats. When the lights go down, these pea-sized predators…