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A A judge's private room, without the press or the public being present - In camera A period of time in the past that was idyllically happy and peaceful - Halcyon A tax or levy - Cess An abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words...

How Xi Jinping, an unremarkable provincial administrator, became China’s most authoritarian leader since Mao. By Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 6 April 2015 In anticipation of New Year’s Eve, 2014, Xi Jinping, the President of China and the General Secretary...

The red-nosed pros at the 2014 World Clown Association annual convention know you think they’re creepy. How does a maligned and misunderstood centuries-old art form survive bad PR and cultural decline? “In our hearts, we’ve been burned.” A spry woman...

Article Author(s): Jacques Delacroix Questions of concern to all. In the two days following and during the events I heard much nonsense about the context of the mass murders of 12 newspapermen and police officers, of a policewoman the next day, and...

For the last two decades, the rules of political reporting have been blown up. And I’ve cheered at every step along the way. Not for me the mourning over the dismantling of the old order, all those lamentations about the lost golden era of print newspapers...