Some of the best culinary creations out there involve heating up some frying oil. While the end result is often delightful, the process of getting there can be anything but. Oil is, in a word ...

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan ...

Without you guys I’d just be another weirdo typing into the void. No film by the late Studio Ghibli cofounder Isao Takahata better embodies the animation auteur’s defiance of mass market sensibilities ...