In this old Silk Road city in western China, a state security campaign involving the detention of vast numbers of people has moved to its next stage: demolishing their neighborhoods and purging their culture.

Low were the whispers, manifold the rumours: / Some said he had been poison’d by Potemkin; / Others talk’d learnèdly of certain tumours, / Exhaustion, or disorders of the same kin;

More than 4,000 birds on a farm in Cihtong Township were killed Tuesday after its chickens tested positive for the H5N2 virus in late March.

Now, was it not the depth of absurdity—of genuine idiotcy, for that pitiful, slavish, mean-minded brach to dream that I could love her?