An obscure zoning regulation passed in 1961 has restricted residential housing development in New York City for the last 64 ...

While the idea of using public funding is often labeled as socialist by the American right, public transportation ...

The US now faces the likelihood of a bruising and raucous set of confirmation hearings − a clear break from the cooperative ...

The Co Down-born artist championed social reform projects to improve the lives of the city's poorest residents ...

The Scot shed her smart city layers for a burka and left early 20th century Edinburgh for the beautiful yet dangerous mountains of the Khyber Pass.

A West Yorkshire campaigner fears that the graves of the war dead may be disturbed as part of a plan to save space in ...

"Imagine a land where the sun once set on a gilded empire and rose on the flag of a foreign crown. This is the story of India ...

The former American president was a complex and confounding man, says his biographer, Jonathan Alter, who looks at the extraordinary life and achievements of this misunderstood man and the people who ...

The serfdom that had operated in Russia since the middle of the seventeenth century was technically not slavery ... It had long been appreciated that some land reform was necessary. To the social and ...

A cover story in The Economist, entitled, The coming food catastrophe, compiled sobering facts regarding worldwide food ...

What part of our lives did the COVID-19 pandemic not impact? The list of social and economic phenomena that has emerged is ...