It’s a Sunday morning during the 2025 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. As I walk along the National Mall, the sound of lively music fills the air—flutes and drums as a man sings in Spanish, whistles ...

If you don’t have the energy for New Year carousing, pick up these books instead. There are nights when the dance floor beckons but the bones refuse. When the urge to party arrives, it may be too late ...

Anaconda footage from the Amazon forest in a Nat Geo series shows scientists sampling a giant Green anaconda, tied to a proposed new species.

Nicolás Maduro balked at a gilded exile. U.S. officials then saw a more pliant option in his vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, known for stabilizing Venezuela’s economy.

The best and worst of 2025 – featuring devotion in DC, late-night tweeting and the fly that sank a birdie ...

Travel experts have rounded up eight distinctive New Year's Eve traditions from around the world, including some surprising ...

With its violent military intervention into Venezuela–a country I used to live in–the U.S. has begun this year with entitled and undisguised imperialism. The unapologetic kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro ...

Eleven's Rio Palena Lodge is a remote retreat hidden in the Andes where I helicoptered to glaciers few travelers have ever visited.

The best outdoor links of the past seven days, from the climbing history of an El Cap route to a Spanish climbing ban to the ...

With its violent military intervention into Venezuela – a country I used to live in – the U.S. has begun this year with ...

The trade agreement was passed by a majority of EU member states on January 9 despite Ireland’s opposition to the deal ...