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 ...

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 ...

Every child is taught that landfill is the worst place our trash can end up. It is the sad consequence of a failure to recycle: a mountain of waste leaking chemicals and smells, blighting the land ...

In September 2022, a new kind of pig farm opened in China: a twenty-six storey high-rise in Ezhou, near the Yangtze River. Months later, a second tower went up. Inside, pigs are kept by the tens of ...

In June 1973, chestnut colt Secretariat ran the Belmont Stakes so fast that no horse has matched him since. In less than two and a half minutes, Secretariat flew along the track, finally pulling away ...

Western countries used to let landowners build almost anything anywhere. Now, strict rules freeze the character of most neighborhoods, banning change and densification. Why? One theory is that modern ...

The AI buildout is bottlenecked by energy. But America has the electricity to power its data centers; the problem is getting it to them. One of the most expensive projects in history is under ...

In Irish mythology, a man forces his heavily pregnant wife, Macha, to race the King of Ulster’s horses on foot. She wins, gives birth to twins at the finish line, and then curses the warriors of ...

Multiple myeloma is brutal. We may finally have a cure, but American regulatory inertia means that it was discovered abroad. Multiple myeloma is among the most painful of all cancers. The disease ...

What Americans take to be a borrowed European tradition turns out to be a national style all of their own. I recently visited Washington DC, for the first time since I was a boy. Visiting Washington ...