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From Mesopotamian irrigation to McDonalds, the bestselling food writer tells Oliver Milman that his new history of food is his most important work

Minari is a gentle, universal story about a resilient South Korean family trying to make it in 1980s America. You should watch it.

The culture wars turn bloody, Republicans split, and more developments in a time of turmoil

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey just introduced a new plan to employ millions of Americans in good-paying jobs that respond to climate change. Who’s in?

Our nation has a positive constitutional obligation to redress segregation with policies as intentional as those that segregated us.

The relationship between the US and Saudi Kingdom was famously sealed in a 1945 meeting on the Suez Canal between President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Abdul-Aziz. In exchange for oil, the US government would provide them with security and military aid

News of the World embezzles actual events to promote a favorable fictional narrative of westward expansion free from Indigenous complications.

In March, 495,000 women entered the labor force, but the figures betray the harsher economic situation for Black women and many have dropped out altogether.

Our analysis provides striking evidence of the failure of leading medical journals to publish extant scientific research on racism and health.

Western counterterrorism policy in the Sahel has failed, being both over-militarized and ineffective. All suggest, in slightly varying language, that policy must be “rebalanced” or “rethought” to emphasize diplomacy and good governance.