Folk Culture

Perched on a densely forested hill crisscrossed with narrow, winding, often unsigned roads, Frank Lake’s house in Orleans, California, is...

Nearly 25 years ago, two prominent political scientists formally discovered a political gender gap. It had been an “established orthodoxy...

When Robert Towne sat down to write the screenplay for Chinatown, he quickly found himself lost in a maze of...

The Supreme Court’s gun-rights decision last week came to the right result, but for the wrong reasons. On June 21,...

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Netflix is out with a new delectable documentary series, America’s Sweethearts, about tryouts for the 2023 Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. Why...

Over the past two years, a simple but baffling request has preceded most of my encounters with medical professionals: “Rate...

Over the weekend, at two campaign events, Donald Trump bragged to audiences about another of his big “ideas,” this one...

A year ago, the Chinese leader Xi Jinping told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that, in the words of Beijing’s official...

Editor’s Note: On the last Monday of each month, Lori Gottlieb answers a reader’s question about a problem, big or...