Should We Raise the Gas Tax?
The biggest barrier to innovation is sometimes the fact that it’s cheap enough to do things the old way. Why develop new foods when the old ones are popular? Why create new cars when existing ones fit...
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Inside Cuba: Road Tripping the Country Time Forgot
It felt as though I was breaking the law. When I arrived in Cuba, every move felt illicit, covert, crucial to deny. For 53 years it’s been illegal for Americans to do business with the island, and for...
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How Korea Found the American Dream
Readers of this blog know we love a good story about how the world works. Culture drives people, and economics drive culture. Follow the money and you can usually understand how the world is changing,...
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Would You Drive From London to Alaska?
The longest road trip I ever drove was across the United States, 2,600 miles in all, which took just 2.5 days. At the end, I couldn’t have been happier it was over. That thing about mountain majesties...
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Start Planning Now for America’s 2017 Eclipse
There are, around the world, groups of people so fierce about solar eclipses, they plan their years and even decades around the movements of Earth and the moon. An eclipse happens whenever the moon...
View ArticleChinese Pigs are Changing the World
We’ve all heard about China’s incredible pace of development. Now, finally, we have a symbol of that runaway growth: pork. Demand for pork in China is growing so fast, farmers can’t keep up. The...
View ArticleWill You Live in a Megacity?
On October 31, 2011, between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m., a baby born in India—or it may have been in Somalia or the United States, no one really knows—became the seven billionth person on Earth. The...
View ArticlePhotos: The Old Newness of the Washington Monument
George Washington never liked the name of the American capital that was being built on a swamp in the 1790s. He was too modest to like name Washington City, as it was called. He saw the fanfare more...
View ArticleFor Good Food, Look to a War Zone
Anyone who’s ever eaten knows that food can bring people together. And as a core pillar of a culture, it can also drive people apart. But when entire cultures intersect, big things start to happen....
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Why Iceland is (Still) So Hot Right Now
About a year ago, during a trip to Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, I had the strange and rare experience of emailing a head of state, being invited over for coffee, and knocking on her front door....
View ArticleHere’s the Only Way You Can Stop Climate Change
Every few months, a new report on climate change comes out that spells doom for the future of the planet. Sometimes it’s from the International Panel on Climate Change. Sometimes it’s the U.S....
View ArticleShould We Raise the Gas Tax?
The biggest barrier to innovation is sometimes the fact that it’s cheap enough to do things the old way. Why develop new foods when the old ones are popular? Why create new cars when existing ones fit...
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The Thanksgiving Feast Is Getting Cheaper
For a supermarket to look clean, fresh, and full, a complex equation needs to be constantly balanced. Food needs to be grown on time, shipped on a deadline, and purchased wholesale at the peak of...
View ArticleHere’s What It’s Like to Be Stateless
When whistleblower Edward Snowden gave his first interview to American media in May, one of his chief laments was that, with his passport deactivated and threat of jail time in the United States, he...
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The Fastest Route Across America
Last spring, we took an unconventional road trip. An NG photographer and I followed a truck of strawberries across the U.S. in three days, from California to Washington, D.C., to understand what it...
View ArticleCan Sardinia (Or Any Place) Change Countries?
Usually, when small restive territories want to secede from their guardian countries, they try to become independent. Just look to Scotland or Catalonia this year, both of which had rumbling groups...
View ArticleYou’re Eating Too Many Avocados
The avocado, that green, slimy, deliciously fatty fruit, the one chiefly responsible for bringing guacamole to humanity—and in recent years earning the rare and elusive title of a super food—is a...
View ArticleThe Growing Pains of the Ancient Hajj
Most cities experience a high season and for centuries, Mecca’s has been early October, when Muslims from all over the world visit the Saudi city for a once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage. Islam, their...
View ArticleThe Next Frontier in Farming
If we have any hope of reaching the United Nations’ goal of doubling Earth’s food production by 2050, farmers will have to innovate—and not just farmers, but the seed and fertilizer companies who work...
View ArticleMeet the Super Humans of the Future
Humans today live in big times. Our brains are getting larger, our lives longer, and our cultures, in many ways, more advanced and refined each day. All together, those things show the leap of our...
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