Presidential candidates are selling nostalgia. Don’t buy it.
If Donald Trump's presidential campaign had an official theme song, it would probably be "The Way We Were," or maybe Archie and Edith Bunker's rendition of "Those Were the Days."...
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Let me tell you about the very rich. It’s not like we didn’t know what was going on.
It's not like we didn't know what was going on. But the Panama Papers, the largest-ever document leak and one that implicates political leaders and business executives around the world,...
A ‘lost’ daughter speaks, and all of China listens
A woman in her mid-40s cradled a scrap of blue cloth checkered with red. "Have you seen this before?" she asked. "Do you recognize this pattern?" I held it up...
Slum tourism
When Marie Antoinette wanted to escape the confines and pressures of courtly life, she retreated to her quaint Petit Hameau where she and her companions donned their finest peasant frocks...
NSA spy operation is a Bush-era program
WASHINGTON — A decade ago, a Pentagon research project called "Total Information Awareness" sparked a mass panic because of its seemingly Orwellian interest in categorizing and mining every aspect of...
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
[I]n the Victorian and Edwardian eras, mountains and the men who grow out of them were the first order of reality; ideas, however uplifting, were only the second. And yet,...
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
The era of male dominance is coming to an end. Seriously. For years, the world has been witnessing a quiet but monumental shift of power from men to women. Today,...
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
Asia is nowhere near closing its economic and military gap with the West. The region produces roughly 30 percent of global economic output, but because of its huge population, its...
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
The man or woman who picks up George W. Bush's standard in 2009 will inherit an enviable legacy. Europe is at peace with U.S. leadership. India and China export the...
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
A world without Islam would still see most of the enduring bloody rivalries whose wars and tribulations dominate the geopolitical landscape. If it were not religion, all of these groups...