Criticism of consumer culture once emerged from the least likely place: American pop music.

As eloquent as Jesuit Jorge Mario Bergoglio can sound, his papal playbook has a history.

At the self-involved age of 10, even the assassination of a U.S. president can seem boring.

Thanksgiving once meant Arslan, Kaplan, Shasha, Assaf, Beyré and the two countesses.

Just what mìngyùn, or fate, lies China's future, no Westerner can pinpoint.

Read all about it — Italy, that is — but Luigi Barzini, Jr.'s 1964 vision still reigns supreme.

The U.S. eavesdrops because it can — and because digital tech is fashionable.

Now that major nations no longer wield tanks, shrieking does the human dirty work.

A Rome lunch date leads to uneasy monologue about the American fiscal stalemate.

Though among Europe's more caring countries, Italy struggles with immigration.

Idioms change, which is why "You dig?" is gone — but "acting out" is riskier business.