Folk Culture

Many will read last week’s federal appeals-court opinion that could ban TikTok as a loss for the First Amendment, and...

On Instagram, the wellness women don’t seem like a political movement. Their pictures scroll by like snapshots from heaven. Angels...

For more than a week now, a 26-year-old software engineer has been America’s main character. Luigi Mangione has been charged...

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On Tuesday, the federal government succeeded in doing something that it hasn’t done, or even seriously tried to do, in...

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In his magnum opus, One Hundred Years of Solitude, the Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez turned a century-long history lesson...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s personal health-care routine is perplexing in its inconsistencies. He decries seed oils, despite near scientific consensus...

The second election of Donald Trump has served as an opportunity for all sorts of people to reevaluate their priorities,...

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