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Looking ahead to the next 40 years, President Obama writes about our nature as Americans to dream big and solve problems
August 2010 | By Barack Obama

The United States population will expand by 100 million over the next 40 years. Is this a reason to worry?
August 2010 | By Joel Kotkin

Maturing populations may mean a less violent future for many societies torn by internal conflict
August 2010 | By Carolyn O’Hara

Filmmaker Chris Eyre says Native pride will embolden the next generation of first Americans
August 2010 | By Chris Eyre

The co-chair of the world's largest philanthropy talks about what can be done to improve global health and poverty
August 2010 | By Terence Monmaney

Deafening to fans, broadcasters and players, the ubiquitous plastic horn is closely tied to South Africa’s soccer tradition
June 08, 2010 | By Jim Morrison

From two of Oregon’s best chefs come two recipes to liven up your wild fungi
January 28, 2011 | By Smithsonian.com

Chinese urban planners are building new towns with a foreign flair, each mimicking architecture from Europe’s storied cities
June 10, 2010 | By Rachel Kaufman

After years of conflict, Turkey's tradition-rich Kurdish minority is experiencing a joyous cultural reawakening
June 2010 | By Stephen Kinzer

A Texas cattleman used genetic science to breed his masterpiece – a near-perfect Red Angus bull. Then nature took its course
April 2010 | By Jeanne Marie Laskas

September 21, 2010 | By Megan Gambino

Baltimore's A. Aubrey Bodine cast a romantic light on the city's dockworkers in painterly photographs
April 2010 | By Abigail Tucker

The celebrated writer returns to the town of her birth to revisit the places that haunt her memory and her extraordinary fiction
March 2010 | By Joyce Carol Oates

Shelby Lee Adams' 1990 photograph of life in the eastern Kentucky mountains captured a poignant tradition
March 2010 | By Abigail Tucker

March 01, 2010 | By Megan Gambino

For more than half a century the Scurlock Studio chronicled the rise of Washington's black middle class
February 2010 | By David Zax

Carlos Perez could have been an artist or a gangster. Photographer Donna DeCesare helped him choose
February 2010 | By Patti McCracken

Wealthy businessman John Gussenhoven pledged his fortunes to assist those who helped him on his journey across America
December 18, 2009 | By Jamie Katz

A reporter follows the lucrative, illicit and heartrending trade in stolen wild animals deep into Ecuador's rain forest
December 2009 | By Charles Bergman

As demand for its antiquities soars, the West African country is losing its most prized artifacts to illegal sellers and smugglers
November 2009 | By Joshua Hammer

Novelist Tim O'Brien revisits his past to come to terms with his rural hometown
November 2009 | By Tim O'Brien

The artist’s eye for the off-kilter and unusual offers a distinctive portrait of the West at the turn of the 20th century
October 05, 2009 | By Donna M. Lucey

The European discovery of America opened possibilities for those with eyes to see. But Columbus was not one of them
October 2009 | By Edmund S. Morgan

In Southeast Asia, forensic investigators using cutting-edge tools are helping stanch the deadly trade in fake anti-malaria drugs
October 2009 | By Andrew Marshall

Explore these mock sovereign states fueled by local disputes, utopian idealism and the imaginations of a few eccentric individuals
August 24, 2009 | By Robin T. Reid

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