Part of our weekly "In Focus" series—stepping back, looking closer. Every civilization has its rise and fall. But no culture has fallen quite like the Maya Empire, seemingly swallowed by the jungle ...

I am Jade Skirt and welcome to my family’s farm, not everyone lives in the city you know. We live and sleep in one big room covered by a thatched palm leaf roof. There are no windows, just one open ...

Matt Davies is Newsday’s Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist. Davies is also a children’s book author and illustrator, currently publishing with Macmillan imprint; Neal Porter Books/Roaring ...