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Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly ...

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The mighty Colorado River — that carved the Grand Canyon and was dammed by the epic Hoover Dam — is in big trouble. The ...

Huge crowds of mourners came to view the casket of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was exalted by some and despised by others. He was killed four months ago at the start of the U.S.-Israeli attacks.

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Late-period Spielberg remains one of cinema’s last great humanists, turning extraterrestrial wonder into a plea for empathy in an increasingly fractured world ...

F OR 250 YEARS America’s ascent has been defined by the country’s sheer scale. In the 19th century it handily surpassed ...

We not only do not know which spark will ignite the fire, but neither can we know it in advance. Over the past several weeks, ...

Recently discovered documents reveal a back-channel attempt by a leader of the Continental Congress to make peace. (He did ...