Cristian Mungiu’s “R.M.N.” zooms in on the resentments and anxieties roiling Europe.

Since 2007, Romania has lost between half and two-thirds of its virgin forest. The environmentalists and activists trying to protect it keep getting killed.

The furniture giant is hungry for Romania’s famed trees. Little stands in its way.

As a researcher in Ceausescu’s Romania, Katherine Verdery did not suspect how profoundly the secret police would interfere in her life.

The new science of babies and brains—and how it could revolutionize the fight against poverty.