In the months ahead, Democratic Party officials and operatives will analyze election returns and voting patterns to try to make sense of what happened on Election Day. There will be…

I bathed in oil during the U.N. climate summit. It was crude oil from a half-mile underground, pumped into a bathtub at a hotel in Azerbaijan. It crept into every…

If you didn’t think they were serious before, you certainly ought to know better now. Donald Trump’s team has construed his victory as a mandate for carrying out what it…

My colleagues and I have spent months investigating the sugar industry in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. We’ve documented illegal underage marriage, brutal working conditions and a pattern of…

On his path to the presidency, President-elect Donald J. Trump consistently made Mexico a target. He threatened extreme tariffs on the country’s exports to the United States and vowed to…

With its flying monkeys and magical shoes, oh my, the story of the Wizard of Oz has been lodged in the popular imagination for over a century. It is, after…

At 5,525 miles, it is the longest border between any two countries. And that border — separating the United States and Canada — seems set to become a flashpoint between…

The best and worst developments in public health have always come from moments of crisis. In 1937, when the Food and Drug Administration was still a tiny, toothless backwater unable…

Several years ago, to attract more students, Jean Muteba Rahier spiced up the name of his introduction to the anthropology of religion course. He called it Myth, Ritual and Mysticism.…

When his daughter turned 12, Gighe Dutta decided this would be the year that he and his wife quit cutting sugar cane in the fields of western India. The work…