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This year’s Shakespeare in the Park production puts the star-crossed lovers on the U.S.-Mexico border. And there’s another ...

Although very few people in Butte, Montana, had heard of Bertolt Brecht, it was the kind of place that Brecht would have dug: a boomtown staked out on arid highland better suited for grazing sheep, a ...

You’re reading The Financial Page, John Cassidy’s weekly column on economics and politics. In recent months, higher prices and sagging consumer sentiment have caused the U.S. economy to slow on an ...

In English, it’s called the World Cup, but I prefer the stirring names by which it’s known in other European ...

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