Disillusioned by politics, I read these books to get out of my slump. The Washington Post’s longtime book critic Michael Dirda took a break from reading, then delved into some favorites and new ...

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Forget James Bond. George Minden was the real thing. A Romanian aristocrat by birth, he could have spent his days in manor ...

A presidential road trip, the life and soul of a river, Saudi Arabia’s future and more.

According to the Center for Okinawan Studies at the University of Hawaii, there are estimated to be between 45,000 and 50,000 persons of Okinawan descent living in Hawaii — about 3% of the ...