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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…

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…

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,”…

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.…

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…

There Are a Million Ways to Make Campfire S’mores. Here’s the Best One.

The campfire s’more is a gooey mess: saccharine, certainly, but also sentimental, stuffed with childhood memories. “When you get older,…

David McCullough, Best-Selling Explorer of America’s Past, Dies at 89

David McCullough, who was known to millions as an award-winning, best-selling author and an appealing television host and narrator with…

Bert Fields, Lawyer to the Hollywood Elite, Dies at 93

Bert Fields, the colorful and canny dean of Hollywood lawyers whose services were called on by superstars and studios alike…

In Search of Mexican Pizza

PHILADELPHIA — On a sticky day in late June, Margarita Jeronimo and Aaron del Rosario assembled a feast on a…

A.I. Is Not Sentient. Why Do People Say It Is?

As the sun set over Maury Island, just south of Seattle, Ben Goertzel and his jazz fusion band had one…

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