Tag: Culture

The current price for a pound of Arabica coffee beans on international commodity markets is $3.84. That’s an all-time high and a boon for coffee producers. But those commodity prices ...

If you’ve scrolled through Netflix lately, you might have noticed a proliferation of reality dating shows promising to help singles meet their perfect match—or at least provide some entertainment in ...

“If it should be, and he came to London, with his teeming millions. … There may be a solemn duty; and if it come we must not shrink from it.”—Bram ...

The words of the year, chosen by the English-speaking universe’s custodians of the language, certainly describe the state of our world. Oxford University Press opted for “brain rot,” while Merriam-Webster ...

In 2024, Foreign Policy contributors read books that pushed them to reflect on their career experiences, reconsider the legacies of global icons, and rethink long-held beliefs about their areas of ...

This year, the Global Engagement Center, an agency that leads the U.S. State Department’s efforts to counter foreign disinformation, offered a $1 million grant to applicants proposing a video game ...

My family didn’t have cable when I was growing up. What we did have was a DVD player into which my parents fed offerings from the local Blockbuster. Our fare ...

Perhaps no moment better sums up the theme and purpose of Gladiator II than when the film’s hero, Lucius “Hanno” Verus (Paul Mescal), needing courage and inspiration, seeks it at ...

“Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?” asks the popular jazz standard, and the answer is pretty straightforward—the weather here is either stiflingly hot or bracingly cold, ...

In the opening pages of Devika Rege’s debut novel Quarterlife, one of the protagonists, Naren Agashe, goes to the Lincoln Zoo in Nebraska to buy a coffee. After an older ...