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A century on, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great Jazz Age novel still speaks to what ails America.
But it’s when discussion of the American Dream gets closer to home that her West Virginia students light up. “One thing ...
When politicians are no longer game to appeal to the better angels of our nature, you know we’ve got a problem.
Writing is a fundamental aspect of language learning, but the process of grading compositions often proves time-consuming and inconsistent. Teachers ...
In my oral radio commentary for Friday, April 18, I decided NOT to make any comments on the craziness of Trump’s on again off again tariff war with the rest of the world.
It is hard to beat the Suffolk Coast in Spring for old-fashioned Englishness. The tea shops shut at 4pm. Big jars of sweets, ...
When the British conquered the Indian subcontinent in 1806, they quickly realized the need for a formal administration to govern their new territorie ...
In the summer of 1859, a year before his election to the U.S. presidency, Abraham Lincoln received a curious letter in the ...
Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters for decades, has died, ...
Jeanette Winterson was one of the first British writers to tackle the implications of technology – and she’s still at the ...
At a time when the country is seeing a museum-building renaissance — mega projects such as the Yuge Yugeen Bharat National ...
From Mr. Mulliner to Bertie and Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse's creations make me laugh out loud. In today's world, that's gold ...