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Ian Johnson

Women pray in front of paramilitary policemen at Yonghegong Lama Temple on the first day of the Lunar New Year of the Rooster in Beijing, China.

Religion is alive and kicking in officially atheist China

Books

A variety of religions are thriving in post-Mao China.

A Taoist priest stands in sunlight to keep warm in the courtyard of the 700-year-old Dongyue Temple in central Beijing.

Daoism gains a foothold, again, in China

Belief

London ad campaign upsets South Carolina

Global Politics
The World

‘Wall Street got drunk’ and other pithy phrases for global crises

The World

South Carolina: it’s not easy being ‘so gay’

Arts, Culture & Media