Mike Villareal wasn’t worried about losing his identity or purpose when he retired from his decades-long refinery job at Total Energies eight years ago. He already had a new role in place as a reading ...

We hear from Atlantic staffers about the books they read in high school that stuck with them. In an era when fewer young people are reading books, we state what might be obvious to the already ...

A pair of psychologists, one with Brock University, the other with the University of Calgary, both in Canada, has found evidence suggesting that middle children who grow up with multiple siblings ...

Photo: Jimin Kim/Dave Decker/Zuma Press The consequences of Bashar al-Assad’s fall from power in Syria will reverberate for years across the Middle East, but one great fact is already clear.

Middle-income Americans ... Venessa is a graduate of the Columbia Journalism School and Middlebury College. Follow her on Twitter @venessawong.

You’re reading an excerpt from the WorldView newsletter ... His ousting represents a political sea change in the Middle East. “Just as 1989 marked the end of communism in Europe, Assad ...

Oil trading major Glencore has been buying spot cargoes of Middle Eastern crude grades for a Singaporean refinery it has recently acquired from Shell, anonymous traders have told Bloomberg.