Glencore, Mercuria among firms pursuing Venezuela aluminium smelter deal, Bloomberg News reports London-listed miner Glencore and Swiss-based commodities trader Mercuria Energy are among firms ...

More than a decade ago, on the first day of a college seminar titled “The American South,” Glenda Gilmore—one of the deans of Southern history—challenged my classmates and me to define the borders of ...

Yun-Jeong Kim grew up imagining what her future family would look like — married with several kids, a nice home and a dog. But when the lease on her apartment in Seoul, South Korea, became too much to ...

For more than a century, readers have been fascinated by the American South, a place where the dialects remain distinct, raconteurs abound (I’ve never met a southerner who can’t tell at least one good ...

Waves in the Atlantic Ocean and the pier at sunrise, in Isle of Palms, South Carolina. Isle of Palms is one of several barrier islands in South Carolina to rank among the richest cities in the state.

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea, is a country in East Asia that occupies the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. The nation borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, ...

Over the last several decades, the diaspora of the Indian subcontinent has been labeled, relabeled and lumped together too many times to count. Indian and Pakistani immigrants were known as “Black” in ...

The term “Global South” caught the world’s attention in 2023. In China, officials have traditionally avoided using the term, but Foreign Minister Wang Yi and subsequently President Xi Jinping himself ...

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Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. Are people on the South Pole walking upside down ...

The cover of "Baking in the American South" by Anne Byrne. (Courtesy of Rinne Allen) Every now and then you find a new book that’s hard to put down. But perhaps that's less expected when it's a ...

Few television shows have quite the impact that South Park has. Created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the crudely made animated series first premiered on Comedy Central all the way back in the 1990s.