In this excerpt from her new book, “Ice Cream: A Global History,” author Laura Weiss reminds us that ice cream was one of the first road foods.

Heightened border security, drug violence and anger over Arizona’s anti-immigration laws is hurting business on both sides of the border.

A fence meant to block Mexican immigrants from slipping into the United States has other, unexpected consequences

In this excerpt from her delectable memoir “Day of Honey,” the American author Annia Ciezadlo writes about the challenges of cooking in Beirut for — and with — her Lebanese mother-in-law.

Photographer Allison Heiliczer looks at the lives of children around Asia.

Indulging in nostalgia and poetry, at a clandestine festival somewhere between Moscow and Siberia

A photographer chronicles new life in Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina

A project supported by Columbia University’s Earth Institute aims to put Ghanaians on wooden bikes

An ex-Peace Corps volunteer’s bike donation program aims to boost developing economies