Raising taxes on cigarettes has not curtailed smoking, but rather made smokers consume each butt more intensively.
The era of optimism for democracy in the Middle East has ended, says one foreign relations specialist.
The English are descended from the Angles and the Saxons, right? Only if you ignore the DNA record, which shows that most share a heritage with the Basques.
Disability payments have reached an annual cost that is nearly three and a half times the budget of the Department of Homeland Security.
Anti-Americanism is nothing new, but it seems there are different categories of dislike.
Why does Latin America, economically, continue to be the sick man of the West?
Women number fewer than men among bloggers, despite a few prominent voices on the Web. The explanation may be found in the Internet's history and culture.
Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney, in the view of one critic, has succeeded because "his sense of responsibility extends to pleasure itself."
Aaron Dalton on the body's largest, and perhaps most mysterious, organ