Faced with a new Palestinian uprising, Israelis have shelved the idea of a two-state solution—and have found surprising new allies in a disintegrating Middle East.
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From the Adamses to the Roosevelts to the Bushes, no family yet has been able to put three presidents in the White House.
Do we have to keep pretending that movies have anything like their old cultural urgency?
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As Britain debates whether to leave the European Union, the coined words “Brexit” and “Bremain” get a workout
Physicist Frank Wilczek on a mind-bending experience in the desert.
Even 6-month-old babies predict that the person with more allies will prevail in a struggle, new research shows. They are political pundits in diapers.
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This week, the Varsity Math team members are focused on their fascination with numbers.
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University of Wisconsin researchers have harvested some of the considerable power generated by walking humans. Daniel Akst on the technique’s future.
The book “Weird War One” compiles eccentric materials that reveal another side of the Great War.
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Amanda Foreman celebrates Feb. 29, a leap-year anomaly, with a history of calendars and disputes over them.
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A new exhibit stars Hubert Robert, who was famed for his paintings of ruins.
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Can all those scientific studies on TV, pain management, sighing and dental hygiene be true? Joe Queenan’s view
The Paul Simon ballad “American Tune” spurred Jeffery Deaver, then a young folk singer, to consider a life of crime writing.
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Paul Theroux’s ‘The Mosquito Coast’ follows a character’s ill-fated attempt to build a microcosm of a better civilization.
The memoirist recalls drawing on bedroom walls and escaping through books.
Publisher David Chickey launched nonprofit Radius Books in Santa Fe so he could keep the profile small—and produce art monographs that prioritize inventive design.
The monstrous cartels that run the narcotics business face the same dilemmas as ordinary firms—and have the same weaknesses.
The Whole Foods Market co-chief executive on his plan to get his company out of a downturn, his penchant for being frank and his belief in capitalism with a cause.
Brexit—a British exit from the European Union—would give the U.K. self-determination and free it from the dysfunctional European project.
Harper Lee, the Southern author best known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning portrayal of racial bigotry in the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” died at age 89.
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Italian author Umberto Eco, best known for the international best-seller “The Name of the Rose,” has died. He was 84.
In some patients, dementia can spark newfound artistic potential. Understanding the connection offers some lessons in creativity.
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The game Diplomacy, a classic simulation of international politics and conflict, has proved to be useful for researchers studying the psychology of betrayal.
Recent research shows that in brain development, cell mutations are ubiquitous. Melvin Konner on what this means for genetics
Dan Ariely answers readers’ questions on patient care, persuasive vegetarians and effective wooing.
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The name of the material used to make records—and a catchall term for the records themselves—is finding renewed popularity in an HBO series.
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Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 came to be known as the ‘Symphony of a Thousand’ because of the vast numbers required to perform it.
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A show of samurai armor will open at the Denver Art Museum on March 6 as part of a worldwide tour. Moving the exhibit around is no easy feat.
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These explorations of British menswear—both classic and otherwise—offer ample motivation to take you from armchair traveling to strolling down Savile Row.
Lois Lowry, award-winning author of “The Giver,” and the latest WSJ Book Club host, chooses William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies” for our next read.
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James Grant reviews “Dear Chairman: Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder Activism” by Jeff Gramm.
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A brief flowering of democracy on the Muslim-majority archipelago prefigured the Arab Spring.
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J.R. McNeill reviews “A Foot in the River: Why Our Lives Change—and the Limits of Evolution” by Felipe Fernández-Armesto.
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Ruth Scurr reviews “At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails” by Sarah Bakewell.
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Amity Shlaes reviews “Imbeciles” by Adam Cohen and “Illiberal Reformers” by Thomas C. Leonard.
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D.G. Hart reviews “Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion” by Susan Jacoby.
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Harold Holzer reviews “The Immortal Irishman” by Timothy Egan, an irresistible story of an Irish exile who won fame in the U.S. Civil War.
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Roger Lowenstein reviews “The Golden Lad: The Haunting Story of Quentin and Theodore Roosevelt” by Eric Burns.
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Rien Fertel reviews “Meathooked: The History and Science of Our 2.5-Million-Year Obsession with Meat” by Marta Zaraska.
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A review of “The King of Fear,” by Drew Chapman.
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Reviews of “The Dead Bird” by Margaret Wise Brown and other picture books.
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Alexandra Mullen reviews “Weatherland: Writers & Artists Under English Skies” by Alexandra Harris.
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David Wootton reviews “The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World” by William Egginton.
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Reviews of “The Castle Cross of the Magnet Carter” by Kia Corthron and “I Met Someone” by Bruce Wagner.
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The author, most recently, of “On Stalin’s Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics” on Soviet women.
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The U.S. dominates the fields of hardware and software. But it remains uniquely vulnerable because its so connected to the Internet.
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The owner of a seedy trailer park earns roughly $447,000 a year. But if the profit were less, would those accommodations remain available?
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What do teenagers use their phones for? Bonding, backbiting, bullying—and texting naked pictures. Lots and lots of naked pictures.
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Critics charged that Stellarwind was nearly worthless as an intelligence tool. Hayden has no doubts about the program’s effectiveness.
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Evangelicals reject the feminist label, yet they support feminist principles like equal pay for equal work and political equality.
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A revelatory history of American abolitionism.
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From the ‘Catholic Encyclopedia’ to a 1761 guide to the prostitutes of London’s Covent Garden.
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A reporter in 1884 judged the Washington Monument ‘absurdly unworthy of its subject.’
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Eleanor Roosevelt became friends with a young black woman who refused to curtsy to her.
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Frank Lloyd Wright pitched his Broadacre City design as a cure for the ‘economic, aesthetic and moral chaos’ of the 1930s.
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The jump shot was invented by a 13-year-old seeking an edge against his older brother.
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A Brazilian novelist climbs up an almond tree with a suitcase in hand and disappears.
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Tipped waiters receive the same federal minimum wage they have for two decades: $2.13 an hour.
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The odd walking style that fashion models affect on the catwalk is also employed by chimpanzees to stay upright.
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Darwin was fascinated by the question of the origin of life, but it did not bear on his theory of evolution.
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Two brothers toiling on the cacao plantations of the Ivory Coast must fight together to survive.
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The author of ‘The Fame Lunches: On Wounded Icons, Money, Sex, the Brontes, and the Importance of Handbags’ on novels of despair.
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Christianity’s move from Aramaic and Greek into Latin gave the Roman church its imperial bearing.
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Romania, having suffered under two of the nastiest dictators of the Soviet period, is now in the crosshairs of Putin’s new cold war.
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Techniques for smoothing the passage of humans and vehicles date to the Romans, whose famous roads were lined with hand-laid stones.
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In the hands of the late pastry chef Gina DePalma, unexpected combinations tasted absolutely right. This creamy tart with a chocolate-almond crust and a marmalade glaze was a signature, with good reason.
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When push comes to shove, there are really only a few Oscar nominees, but there are a lot of glamorous Oscar people.
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These grand hotels go back decades, but with spa services that range from classic to downright futuristic, they definitely aren’t stuck in the past.
Dan Neil sings the praises of the Chevy Malibu. But he’s not certain the upgraded trim packages are worth the price.
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The 68th Cannes Film Festival was brought to a surprising close Sunday with Jacques Audiard’s Sri Lankan refugee film taking the festival’s coveted top honor, the Palme d’Or.
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EXOS is training some of the top prospects for this year’s NFL draft—and a bunch of office workers.
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Best-selling books for the week ended Feb. 21, with data from Nielsen BookScan.
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—James Freeman on Charles Gasparino's new book about the fall of Wall Street“At the heart of 'The Sellout' is its own irksome inquiry: Why did so many large and prestigious institutions make disastrous bets on American mortgages?”