Being the archbishop of Canterbury, head of the Church of England, has always been a risky business. Modern incumbents are not likely to be murdered before their own altar, beheaded ...
Choosing to write about “settler colonialism” as a theoretical notion and political concept is not an obvious choice for a poet and cultural critic, but Adam Kirsch’s new book is ...
A Kansas City museum took great caution when unveiling a century-old time capsule. On Oct. 16, the The National World War I Museum and Memorial held a ceremony to open ...
In Africa, one doesn’t need to look hard these days to spot crises. Case in point: the broad swath of the continent known as the Sahel. There, in recent years, ...
On Oct. 1, 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) from the top of Beijing’s Tiananmen Gate. Now, as the PRC celebrates its 75th ...
You’ve heard of woolly mammoths, but have you heard of woolly rhinos? Well, they existed, and they existed at the same time as the woolly mammoth. Woolly mammoths just have ...
The Israeli military launched what it described as a “limited, localized” ground offensive into Lebanon on Monday in a bid to dislodge Hezbollah from the country’s south. The operations marked ...
Today, Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, will celebrate his 100th birthday. He is the only U.S. president to reach that milestone, and his centenary is an ...
A man in Corbeil-Essonnes, France, discovered a skeleton in his cellar while pursuing a renovation project. But that was just the beginning. ‘Tis the spooky season, I guess. By the ...
Researchers found cocaine in the mummified brain tissue of two individuals who were buried in a 17th-century crypt in Milan, Italy, suggesting that Europe had much earlier experience with cocaine ...