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I made an interesting discovery a few weeks ago while searching for photos of my father to share on Facebook [...]

Uno tira l’altro, or “One pulls another.” While this Italian expression may sound like an Iron Curtain slogan —“One pulls [...]

Working at my desk the other day, I felt the house cool as dusk fell. But since it's officially spring [...]

Not a day goes by that I don't notice an example of an American trend I wasn't aware of during [...]

For columnist Madeleine Johnson, thinking back to long ago Midwestern evenings means card games and music, Lottie and Mildred presiding.

Whenever I used to tell people that I lived in Italy, the response was almost inevitable. "Oh, that's always been [...]

The highlight of my 2018 was a trip to France to commemorate the centenary of the World War I Armistice, [...]

When columnist Madeleine Johnson was young, one Christmas catalog fit all. Not so in 21st-century America, a nation of tribes.

More than a year ago, I moved to rural New Hampshire from Milan, where I had lived for 30 years. [...]

Columnist Madeleine Johnson had a father who warned her about the perils of male aggression, and those warnings endure.

One of the delights of director John M. Chu's comedy "Crazy Rich Asians" is hearing the reasons viewers worldwide are [...]

The other day, after speaking at a conference and going out for dinner, I happened to pass a noisy and [...]