In Essence

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."

The Equal Rights Amendment may not have passed, but many of its principles seem embodied in the Fourteenth Amendment.

Iran's system of compensating organ donors is being watched closely by transplant advocates and medical ethicists alike.

Despite man's best efforts--or, more precisely, because of them--a Hawaiian raven is all but extinct in the wild.

Novelists ought to keep "a private address," in Eudora Welty's famous construction, but one critic believes too many writers are ignoring the advice.

Some Americans want to reconsider "birthright" citizenship, even though it's protected by the Fourteenth Amendment.

Iraq holds the world's second-largest oil reserves, an irresistible target for smugglers.

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