If Kiran Desai’s new novel were a mansion, it would be a vast estate with multiple wings built in different styles, full of interconnected rooms and hidden passages. From one room comes the voices of ...

The trailblazing artist’s abstract paintings, on view in her first US museum retrospective, are luxurious fields of color and form, each one pulsating with its own energy. The visual dynamism of ...

Kat Thompson is the audience editor of Eater’s Southern California/Southwest region. The best White Elephant gift might just be an immersion blender. I’m biased because that’s what I once brought to a ...

Liters, cc’s and—my favorite—cubic inches are all terms you’ll hear when folks talk about engines. While these terms are all based on different increments of measurement, they’re all used to describe ...

Lebanon's sectarian tensions rise amid mass displacement of Shi'ites from south Residents in southern Christian town uneasy about hosting displaced people Fears that the displaced could include ...

In popular culture, the fear of AI taking over jobs often manifests in dystopian narratives in which machines replace human workers, leading to societal unrest and economic collapse. Films like "The ...

Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, University of Maine As a result of the monthslong Israeli air and ground campaign in northern Gaza Strip, more than 1.8 million of ...

Up to 1.8 million Gazans — around 80 percent of the population — have been forced to leave their homes since Israel began its bombardment in response to Hamas’s attack on Oct. 7. That number is ...

GENEVA - The number of people displaced by war, persecution, violence and human rights violations globally is likely to have exceeded 114 million at the end of September, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, ...

This study examines the rise of property technologies, known as PropTech, in relation to their effects on rental housing and tenants in New York City. Digitalization of the real estate industry has ...

The vast majority of the 108.4 million people displaced globally are hosted in developing countries for five or more years. Since 2016, the World Bank Group (WBG) has been increasing its support to ...