It's 1:30am and you just missed the last train to Connecticut. Time to take a $100 cab ride.

Next to water, more people of the world drink tea over any other beverage.

You can trace basically all modern English terms for Chinese food to a cookbook from 1945.

Francis Fukuyama debunks Sam Huntington's paranoia about Mexicans.

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How can secularists and religionists build common causes instead of just scream at each other?

Sure, there was a Troy, but what about the Trojan War?

The No Child Left Behind law will make kids good at taking tests, but not much else.

Anti-Bush protesters are ready to give the Republicans a whole new kind of Bronx cheer in September.