Folk Culture

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For the past month, up until Sunday’s parliamentary election, most French voters had been dreading the predicted victory of the...

Jo Franco still remembers the moment she realized that her nose worked. Growing up in Wilmington, a Los Angeles neighborhood...

When a certain type of person reaches middle age without having achieved the level of professional recognition or personal happiness...

Last year, hiking in Morocco’s eastern Atlas Mountains, I found an ammonite, a fossil of those spiral-shape cephalopods that to...

As Democrats debate whether to replace President Joe Biden, an ill-conceived argument for retaining him as the nominee is alarmingly...

If you were a college student in America a few decades back, chances are you engaged in a semi-regular ritual:...

Everyone should be in therapy.This phrase becoming embedded in our lexicon is a mark of how much American culture has...

President Joe Biden is insisting that his reelection campaign will go on. If it doesn’t, Kamala Harris is the most...

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