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LOS ANGELES — When Harrison Birtwistle died last week at 87, he became the sixth pioneering composer who came to prominence in the 1960s that we lost in less than nine months. This uncompromising British modernist, along with Holland's most important composer, Louis Andriessen, and Americans Frederic Rzewski, George Crumb,…

America entered what I call the Age of Parenting Enlightenment around 1970. That was the year, or thereabouts, when parents stopped listening to their elders about childrearing matters and began instead listening to people with capital letters after their names. The people in question were enlightened, supposedly, by having attended…

The Tesla and SpaceX tycoon has donated to both parties and attacked everyone from Joe Biden through Donald Trump to trade unions and ‘pronouns’, but underneath it all there is a consistent ideology, writes Io Dodds

Mainstream media is hooked on the narrative that Trump's influence is fading. It's nowhere near that simple

Markets tumbled across the globe today on fears China is heading for a sharp slowdown and the expectation that America is poised to ratchet up interest rates.

Fifty years ago, the national networks CBS, ABC and NBC dominated television screens in America and were the primary way voters obtained information: Each network, along with newspapers and radio, told its audience facts first, and all agreed on what the facts were. That meant Americans had a shared understanding…

In her newly published memoir, Growing Up Biden, the president’s sister pays tribute in a moving portrait of sibling love

PUDUCHERRY: Culture was the common thread that bound citizens across the country, said Union home minister Amit Shah in Puducherry on Sunday. Addressing the 150th birth anniversary celebrations of revolutionary freedom fighter-turned-spiritual guru Sri Aurobindo, organized by the Sri Aurobindo Society, Shah said India was the only geo-cultural country in…

The show is the antithesis of "helicopter parenting" — and a reminder of how unsafe American pedestrians are today