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Anthropologists are all too familiar with the violence and bloodshed triggered by marital infidelity. Now they are coming to terms with a more mysterious phenomenon—consensual wife sharing. If men fly ...

The city’s history can be understood through the people who sell food on sidewalks. Here’s how New York could set them up for success. By Priya Krishna and Sasha Arutyunova The new light-rail train, ...

Universities worldwide are up against it like never before. Technological innovations such as artificial intelligence and the global ‘massification’ of higher education pose fundamental questions ...