Speculation has touched off the biggest gold rush in history, and that gold rush is straining Peru's society and environment.

Our modern cornucopia of consumer goods is supposed to make us happier, but it doesn't. Here's why.

The rising prospect of Kurdish independence, with Iraqi Kurdistan as its epicenter, portends major disruptions in Southwest Asia and beyond.

American music—not just playing and listening to it, but making and selling it—is a portal to cultural awareness.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Americans lost a "sensibility about time and space," says Robert D. Kaplan. His new book seeks to restore it.

Sincerity, a quality we typically think of as a constant and unchanging human virtue, is anything but.

Expect no grand political realignment this November. Neither party has the right diagnosis for what ails America, and much less a cure.

Opponents of the "death tax" are really aiming at the idea of progressive taxation itself. Years of perfecting a deceptive pitch have brought them to the edge of victory.

Using the tax code to accomplish what the legislative process is supposed to do is bad for both.

My title, “Goodbye America!” is taken from a song in the super popular Russian flick Brother 2 (the 2000 sequel to the also popular post-Soviet crime film, Brother). The film’s protagonist, Danila, accompanies his brother to Chicago, where he tries to “do justice”, becoming involved in a series of encounters with different types of Americans, […]