The mythology of the struggling artist is everywhere, but sometimes it is startlingly real; here are some musical prodigies from Indian slums who defied all odds ...

Set to an infectious beat, the video of the Rocinha favela has exploded on social media at a time when the city is drawing record tourist numbers.

It’s not good for printing,” this photo that Gary Mark Smith took of a few boys on the streets of Tangier, Morocco. It’s not ...

Steven Knight's Peaky Blinders puts a fictional spin on some very real events. The Peaky Blinders were an actual street gang that operated in Birmingham, England in the late 19th and early 20th ...

Britain’s council estates were originally built as an ambitious solution to the overcrowded slums of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Early social housing projects offered working-class families ...

Yet even though overpopulation is an issue as dated as Dacron pants or disco, Ehrlich helped give an imprimatur of scholarly authority to a new kind of politics—a politics of scarcity—that has proved ...

Homelessness is a global crisis that affects millions of people across every continent. From the tent cities of Los Angeles ...

Nevertheless, the politics of scarcity has persisted. Much of what makes Trumpism distinct from previous Republican presidents’ ideologies—above all, its insistence that immigration is per se ...

Cool Bazaar’ in the midst of the Traffic Gate market in Rourkela may well be dismissed as a new gimmick. A group of women ...

Residents and activists in the Lagos waterfront community of Makoko are raising fresh concerns over displacement and land ...

Neo-Malthusian Paul Ehrlich recently passed away, but not before his false doomsday claims made him a very wealthy man.

A National Rally victory in France’s second city in municipal elections that start on Sunday would be hailed by the party as a step towards taking the presidency next year ...