Americans Now Love Wine as Much as Beer
Over the past five years, wine has made massive gains in the hearts of Americans.
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The Tagalong Metals
Inside the mining industry’s epic but surprisingly fragile push to keep pace with demand for the raw materials of modern life.
The New Bronze Age
Worries about oil and gas hog the airwaves. But copper is also essential to keep the world running: It threads through your house, your computer, your eco-correct hybrid car. And it's getting just as difficult, expensive, and environmentally menacing as oil to extract. We have entered the era of tough ore.
Will China Ever Be Able to Support Itself Agriculturally?
Food safety is becoming a bigger worry than food security after a series of scandals.
The Long-Term Harm Caused by Short-Term Exposure to Violence
A study of the political upheaval in Kenya shows what harm violence can have on the children who witness it.
Why eBay Failed in China
Successful in dozens of countries, the multi-billion dollar business was no match for China, where citizens place a premium on interpersonal relationships and high-quality social interactions. What lessons can others learn?
China’s Peripatetic Xi Jinping Still Must Mind His Es and Cs at Home
The new jet-setting president may be giving the impression that China's eyes are firmly fixed outward. But the co-authors of a recently revised book on the country in the 21st century insist that now, as forever, all politics remains local.
American Decline
People have been trying, for decades, to convince us that our country is in relative decline from an exceptional peak, that we must be on the road to ruin.
Why Is China Stealing Cities, Towns, and Buildings?
We don't really know, but if anybody does, it's Phil Thompson.