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The black descendants of slaves in Mexico struggle against entrenched racism. Alexis Okeowo explores the so-called first free slave town in the Americas ...  read more »

Lori Gottlieb is raising a furore among women with her new book "Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr Good Enough". But her original article in the Atlantic provoked some sympathy from Adelle Waldman, whose response is republished here ...  read more »

Ed Smith had a theory that sprinters—like greyhounds and racehorses—were not getting any faster. But then came Bolt ...  read more »

If news, as a commodity purveyed by reporters, is coming to an end, when and how did it start? Brian Cathcart finds out ...  read more »

It’s an unstoppable buzzword. But has professionalism gone too far? As a sportsman, Ed Smith saw it backfire at first hand; now he sees this in other fields, from “The Wire” to the banks ...  read more »

Drinking wine is a serious business, according to Roger Scruton, an academic philosopher. Anthony Gottlieb reviews his book "I Drink Therefore I Am" ...  read more »

Believers have got into a tangle trying to fend off the likes of Richard Dawkins. And then there’s the problem of the horticultural parable. Anthony Gottlieb does some digging ...  read more »

Known as the “nine-day queen”, Lady Jane Grey has become an iconic Tudor victim: virginal, sweet and beheaded at 16, largely because of the machinations of her evil mother. But is any of this true? Leanda de Lisle discovers otherwise ...  read more »

What's it like in "Hopenhagen"? Alas, The Economist's energy correspondent found himself annoyed with the conference within the first ten minutes ...  read more »

In the autumn issue of Intelligent Life, Rebecca Willis recalled the challenges of being one of the first girls to attend an all-boys school in the late 1970s. The response from readers has been staggering ...  read more »