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Millions of Americans are inhaling e-cigarettes illegally imported from China. Because of tariffs, they’re about to get a lot more expensive.

Daughters tend to receive higher levels of affection and patience at home than sons. But the sons might need it more.

Americans once associated spheres of influence with a cynical, volatile European past. Now Washington is resurrecting them.

Trump’s threats to annex Canada reversed its political trend—but they should not reverse its commitment to free trade.

The Russian president is enacting one of the world’s most extreme natalism programs—and one of the weirdest.

Mainstream Christianity’s attitudes about sex have always been complicated—and its institutions might even be able to evolve.

The MIT economist David Autor helped fracture the old free-trade consensus. But he thinks that what’s replacing it is even worse.

An executive order will convert 50,000 government employees into de facto political appointees who serve only at the president’s pleasure.