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Flooding is one of the growing challenges facing cities and industrial facilities, with limited drainage and proper control measures…

Fueled by sugar and caffeine, Cairo is a late-night city, and the energy in both its ancient heart and wealthy ‘New’ Cairo is boundless. A…

At twenty-one, I faced a devastating medical prognosis. The doctor entered my hospital room, looked me in the eye, and delivered the…

A hundred and one years after James Baldwin’s birth, the writer has become as much an icon as a public intellectual can be—a status that,…

It’s not normal to have hundreds of thousands of students from an adversary nation able to commit acts of surveillance, sabotage, and…

I recently found myself in that familiar state—lost in a daydream, mentally wandering through fields of possibilities while the world…

The Cannes Film Festival—or, as it should rightly be known, the Oscars: Linen Edition—is reliably the source of some of the year’s biggest…

Why you should visit Hokuriku This central Japanese region has some of the country’s most spectacular landscapes, from towering mountains…