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Every summer, you wait for one thing: that perfect strawberry.

Some of us are more optimistic than others about the future. We optimists recognise that it is still possible to...

We're in the heat of summer here in North Carolina, and people of all walks of life are taking time with their friends and families. Some travel to the beach. Others can't stand the crowds, sand, and heat, so they prefer a mountain lake. Wherever you end up parking your folding chair, you're probably going

BERKELEY — Some of us are more optimistic than others about the future. We optimists recognise that it is still possible to escape from the traps that America’s Second Gilded Age has laid.During a gilded age, productive capabilities are directed away from providing most people with necessities and conveniences, and toward exorbitant spending on status-seeking and other

Julian Zelizer writes that by comparing President Biden to two popular presidents with monumental legacies during a speech, GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene helped the president contrast the Democratic and Republican agendas in a simple way.

The Biden first family seems determined to confirm every stereotype of their antisocial behavior — to the point of dysfunctionality.

From the blog of Marc Eichenbaum at The Times of Israel

PARIS/STANFORD — Ajay Banga, the newly-appointed president of the World Bank, is taking the helm at a pivotal moment. The devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have impeded progress in developing countries and pushed 124 million people into extreme poverty. And Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which has exacerbated inflation and US-China tensions, promises to

The president faces a major challenge: The auto workers’ contract negotiations pit two of his major imperatives against one another — his effort to vastly expand the production of electric vehicles and his struggle to strengthen unions, writes Julian Zelizer.

We are not a start-up nation but a renaissance nation. Commitment to live in this country must transcend cost-benefit analysis.