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Liberal elitism can be as exasperating as conservative buffoonery. Both indulge caricature and cliché, sly or loud. Consider a recent [...]

It's commencement speech season. I have never been under the illusion that any educational institution would ever ask me to [...]

I recently heard a performance of Japanese "Taiko" drumming that had a very strange and unexpected effect on me. While [...]

The woman's voice began early this morning and every few minutes has repeated the same sequence. Numero 77, numero 6, [...]

This morning it’s raining in Naggalama, Uganda. It’s been raining a lot the last two weeks, both brief, light showers [...]

Among the toughest jobs for a young journalist to land in the antediluvian 20th-century was a staff writer's position with [...]

Vaccinations have grown in scope throughout Italy but gaps remain, writes Susan Levenstein.

There's a big white and grey cat that every so often comes out of my crawl space. Herman is his [...]

There is nothing one president made that another cannot dismantle, or try to. This simple bromide rooted in playground politics [...]

In the winter of 2014, newly elected Democratic Party leader Matteo Renzi staged the equivalent of a palace coup. Young, [...]

Though I returned to the United States last summer after 30 years of living in Italy, daily events still have [...]