The rare earths so essential to our modern technology have become a new diplomatic weapon—used to leverage influence and ...

Guatemalan security forces eradicate opium poppies in a village near Tajumulco, Guatemala, March 20, 2024. The boom in supply and use of the synthetic opioid fentanyl has devastated the trade in opium ...

Opium is a highly addictive drug. It’s made from juice extracted from the unripe seed pods of opium poppy plants (the scientific name is Papaver somniferum). Opium is used to make a class of drugs ...

Boston University historian Benjamin R. Siegel’s book, Markets of Pain: Opium, Capitalism, and the Global History of ...