A historic cafe renowned for its artistic and intellectual clientele in the Pakistani city of Lahore has reopened after 13 years. Literary circles in the city say that they are overwhelmed with joy over the restoration of the Pak Tea House. The Mall Road cafe was established in 1940 when …
Younger and more educated men and women are delaying marriage to pursue careers and financial stability. The numbers of unmarried men and women have increased during the past 10 years. As of 2011, 24 percent of women and 38 percent of men had never married. But they face ostracism and …
Spend any time in India, and you will see men urinating in public. In the state of Rajasthan last month volunteers began shaming offenders by drumming and blowing whistles. But some argue the country also needs more, and better, public toilets. A few days after we moved to India my …
Today is Wednesday, July 4, the 186th day of 2012 with 180 to follow. This is Independence Day in the United States. The moon is waning. Morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. Evening stars are Mercury, Saturn and Mars. Those born on this date are under the sign …
House Republicans led by Speaker John Boehner appealed to the Supreme Court on Friday in a DOMA case. Here’s why a leading conservative thinker says they could lose. Conservative commentator George Will predicts that if the Supreme Court must decide on the legality of same-sex marriage, then it will side …
Justice Antonin Scalia needs to resign from the Supreme Court. He’d have a lot of things to do. He’s a fine public speaker and teacher. He’d be a heck of a columnist and blogger. But he really seems to aspire to being a politician — and that’s the problem. So …
Gail Collins on what the state has done to the rest of us. What happens when you turn one of the nation’s sharpest liberal commentators loose in one of the nation’s most ferociously conservative states? Think about mixing fire and hydrogen. Yankees fans and Red Sox fans. Donald Trump and …
Twitter went atwitter Wednesday over a somewhat surprising spat: The President of Estonia apparently slamming New York Times columnist Paul Krugman as “smug, overbearing & patronizing.” Estonia enjoys a budget surplus after enduring harsh austerity measures, which have been deeply unpopular across the Eurozone. Wednesday, Krugman argued in a short …
Rick Santorum, we hardly knew ye. And I mean that quite literally. Santorum had no organization, no coherent strategy, barely any money for advertising, little coherent message, and was frequently unable to even get his name on the ballot or file a delegate slate. Before the primary, his public image …
FARGO, N.D. — A North Dakota newspaper columnist sat down to review her town’s hot new Italian restaurant, rhapsodizing about the chicken Alfredo, crisp greens and “two long, warm breadsticks.” But because the restaurant was the Olive Garden, Marilyn Hagerty’s earnest assessment swiftly became an Internet sensation, drawing comments both …
Ten People Who Should Quit the Media in 2012 This is not just a list of media people we don’t like. Nor is it just a list of media people who had a bad year. This is a list of media people who—abundant evidence shows—should not be in the media, …
The columnist’s father suffers a broken hip, renewing questions about declining health, medical care and euthanasia. Last time I wrote about my dad, he’d taken a fall in his bedroom, couldn’t get up, but didn’t want yet another ride in an ambulance. So my mother got down on the floor …