Starting in the 15th century, Portugal began exploring the African coast searching for a shorter route for trade with Asia. Not to be outdone, Spain sponsored Columbus’ voyage due west and discovered ...

With a Chennai address printed on their calling card for 32 years, Mikael and Maria have fashioned separate legacies. 2024 is ...

Between the 15th and 20th centuries, just 10 European countries colonized nearly the whole world. Colonization brought ...

In their 2012 book Why Nations Fail, Daren Acemoglu and James Robinson discussed how institutions determine the success or ...

Europeans, no matter what happens in the American election, will be investing billions of euros along an 1,800 mile line ...

The world’s liberal democracies suffered a major defeat this week. Its autocracies have chalked up a major win. Illiberal populist demagogues have for the past few years scored a series of outright ...

I have got a new friend; it is called SCOBY*. In Mexico, however, it is Bulgaros; in Northern Caucasus, Kumis; in Sweden, ...

The work of this year's Nobel prize winners in economics has much to say about the big choice facing Americans on November 5.

Vultures aren’t the only animals susceptible to getting sloshed. Tipsy grizzly bears are hazards to trains in Western states.

Maintaining the massive 12,000-square-foot compound amounts to many thousands of shekels a month, and the owners are eager ...

The cider features Scandinavian lingonberries, which are similar to the taste of cranberries, and is made from the museum's Rambo apple trees, a species brought over to the New Sweden Colony (now ...