One of my joys in traveling to Brazil, which I did recently for the seventh time, is dining. In general, Latin America is the great underdiscovered frontier for top-tier food. Most of the region is ...

I am aware that I am a bit of a kitchen equipment nerd, okay? So maybe you don’t have to roll your eyes theatrically like my cousins did when I tell you my wife and I got a swanky induction cooktop ...

Popular mythology holds that a tolerant and affirmative view of human sexuality prevailed in classical Antiquity until it was crushed by puritanical and repressive Christianity. I passively accepted ...

Dan Wang is a columnist for Works in Progress and the author of an annual letter at danwang.co ...

Robin Rivaton is a tech founder and author of Why China Will Run the 21st Century.

Tyler Cowen is an economist. Although Viktor Zhdanov's name is little known today, he spearheaded one of the greatest projects in history. Who was he and what did he do? Read more → ...

Charles C Mann is a correspondent for The Atlantic. Although Viktor Zhdanov's name is little known today, he spearheaded one of the greatest projects in history. Who was he and what did he do? Read ...

The cities they run function as vertically integrated conglomerates that benefit not just from the success of their local ...

Over three thousand years ago, on a plain beside the Orontes River in Syria, two great armies clashed in what may at the time have been the most colossal battle ever seen: the Battle of Kadesh. The ...

Is a build up of generic regulations together causing us to be three times poorer than we need to be? Probably not. But the insidious rise of risk aversion is still a big drag on economic growth. We ...

When America’s economy overtook Britain’s a century ago, it remade the world order. How it happened is still debated. Once upon a time, Western opinion leaders found themselves both impressed and ...

How we calculate inflation has always been a subject of debate. Small changes that might seem trivial can lead to enormous changes in how well-off we think we are. Every month, the US Bureau of Labor ...