In academia or in Internet discussions, feminists who pounce on the most trivial offense in European or American society turn timid when it comes to true patriarchal horrors elsewhere.

With a football at his feet, Lionel Messi makes the game look easy -- but his journey to become one of the great all-time players has been anything but. He reveals how he overcame adversity to fulfill his vast potential.

The New Yorker's Calvin Tomkins has long managed to establish a system for his artist profiles that renders his subject, no matter how radical the artist may seem, straight and with clear angles. The result is always masterful, but a new book offers the unedited transcripts from the writer's meetings with Marcel Duchamp in 1964.

A streak of activism has always been in Wilde's blood. Her family was filled with writers and war correspondents who weren't shy about sharing their beliefs.

On campinmygarden.com, people can register their private gardens as temporary campsite accommodation and users can search for their next left-of-center bargain break.

Never mind the economic downturn. There are companies finding double and triple-digit growth. What can you learn from them?

Inaction in Syria demonstrates that the Unites States learned little from the genocide in Rwanda.

Nostalgic traveller lands in Peru, where Pisco, mummies, and the Temple of the Sun add up to a real-life comic-book adventure.

Experts say the best time to learn a second language is at the same time you're learning your first.

Democrats didn't get good at technology because they undertook central planning. They are good at it because they have an army of grassroots technologists dedicating themselves and their talents to building the progressive technology infrastructure. Republicans depend on mercenary engineers.

A new book chronicles how Leonardo da Vinci was something of an underachiever, until he began work on The Last Supper.

Want to get bigger? You need to shock your muscles, then help them recover. Here's a half-century of ways to do just that.

Resist the temptation to buy any scale that "speaks." If my scale announced bad news every morning, I'd shoot it.

The mining of prehistoric sands -- used in the hydraulic fracking of oil and gas -- threatens the health of humans and the environment.

There are parallels between the multiethnic Habsburg Empire and the contemporary United States, in particular the racial alienation felt by some in the ethnic majority after previously marginalized minorities gained a measure of political power.

Living abroad is not simply a matter of relocation. It's a matter of mindset. And what you get out of it depends more on what goes on in your head than on your dates of arrival and departure.

Never punish your child for wetting the bed. Remind him, and yourself, that it's not his fault.

The Republicans aren't anywhere close to achieving a coherent -- much less popularly appealing --ideology. On the other hand, neither are the Democrats.

The applicant, U.S. Pentagon, seeks to purchase a wide variety of firearms in vast quantities. This background check has determined that the applicant has a long history of assisting individuals, organizations and governments prone to gun violence.

Destroying illicit tunnels between Gaza and Egypt can be a way for The Muslim Brotherhood to become a realistic political governing force. Otherwise, it will fail and fail miserably.