AS WARS fade from living memory, time should heal the emotional scars. In Asia, however, it seems only to deepen wounds left by the second world war. The 70th anniversary this year of the conflict’s end is likely to attract more attention than even the 50th or 60th. That would seem to offer a chance…

A DESOLATE scene surrounds Little Zhang’s Tyre Repair in the dusty rock-mining township of Shijing, in the northern province of Hebei. Zhang Minsheng, the owner, still gets some business from passing traffic. But the recent closure of nearby rock quarries, because of air-pollution restrictions, has…

After nearly 10 years of using OS X as my primary OS for personalwork, I switched away in late 2014. I consider it to be the best techdecision I made last year. I started using OS X in 2005 when 10.4 (Tiger) was released. I ditchedLinux at the time because I needed to print things and Linux was…

To Siri, With Love Credit Louie Chin Just how bad a mother am I? I wondered, as I watched my 13-year-old son deep in conversation with Siri. Gus has autism, and Siri, Apple’s “intelligent personal assistant” on the iPhone, is currently his BFF. Obsessed with weather formations, Gus had spent the…

The protests in Hong Kong mark one of the most difficult tests of Chinese rule since Tiananmen http://t.co/SKAXgdcS5C http://t.co/fjyby7ZOZy

HE PETS calves, cups babies’ cheeks and kicks footballs. He laughs and smiles in public. He holds his own umbrella, shuns a limousine, carries his own bowl of dumplings to a restaurant table and sits crossed-legged in a farmer’s hut. His glamorous wife accompanies him on international tours; he…

Camera + the ultimate photo app Adventures in iPhone photography from the creators of… Camera + MagiCam Filters Home Posts About Lisa Bettany Lisa Bettany is cofounder of Camera+ and MagiCam and has been named one of the top 10 most influential photographers on the web. She is passionate about…

Op-Ed Contributor Obama Isn’t Finished Yet Credit Erik Carter WASHINGTON — ON Sept. 18, 1986, more than two years before the end of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, the columnist George F. Will , one of Reagan’s earliest and strongest supporters, pronounced the Reagan administration dead. “When an…

As China becomes, again, the world's largest economy, it wants the respect it enjoyed in centuries past. But it does not know how to achieve or deserve it MATTHEW BOULTON, James Watt’s partner in the development of the steam engine and one of the 18th century’s greatest industrialists, was in no…

The show is known for historical accuracy. But do the characters really talk like people from the '60s? AMC With Mad Men's return on Sunday comes the return of the paeans to the show's attention to period detail. By various reports, Matthew Weiner devours half-century old letters, dresses actors in…

Op-Ed Contributor China Must Purge Mao's Ghost NEW YORK — Thursday marks the 120th birthday of Mao Zedong, founding father of the People’s Republic of China, but the leadership’s celebrations of his legacy are an alarming reminder that China has a long way to go before it can join the league of…

Leader’s Fall in China Put Allies in Peril MAY 20, 2012 The Nanshan Lijing Resort in Chongqing, China, where the body of Neil Heywood was found. He was a British businessman with ties to the family of Bo Xilai, whose wife has been tied to Mr. Heywood’s killing. Gilles Sabrie for The New York Times…

It’s been three days since Tim Cook unveiled the new iPad, but you’re still stuck with your trusty old iPad 2. You’re keen to get rid of it so you can buy the new one, but you forgot to log in to one of those buy-back sites before Wednesday’s launch. Predictably, the announcement sent trade-in…

Q. and A. on the Debt Ceiling JULY 27, 2011 Doug Mills/Associated Press For a time it seemed safe for many people going about their summers to try to ignore the debt ceiling drama playing out in Washington. If Wall Street had not seemed overly concerned that the United States was headed toward…

Google, the world’s largest search company, is formally making its pitch to become a major force in social networking. The product it announced Tuesday is called Google+, and observers might wonder whether it’s simply one more social effort by a company that’s had a lousy track record in that field…