In the face of widespread ecological destruction, social injustice, economic deprivation, there are powerful countercurrents.

Whether or not he knew it, JD Vance recently waded right into one of the thorniest questions in political philosophy: Who is a citizen and who is not, and who gets to decide? Above and beyond that ...

His inspiration for "The Afterlife Project" came in conversation with an astrophysicist who calculated a plausible path for time travel.

Very few, even from amongst India’s vast contemporary intelligentsias, seem ready to accept that state’s institutional recording and documenting castes and sub-castes – what I call emblematically the ...

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Archaeologists have uncovered the 1,600-year-old tomb of Caracol’s first Maya ruler in Belize.

During an appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored, former CIA officer John Kiriakou described convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey ...

Marine archaeologists in the port city of Alexandria, Egypt, have recovered 22 massive stone boulders used to build the city’s ancient lighthouse in 280 A.D.

Nothing exemplifies this odd couple trope better than Ancient Greek mathematicians and particle accelerators ... “He just ...

One of history’s dark jokes is that the Roman Empire, for all its vaunted accomplishments, only made a single great ...

Sam Kelly explains how Queen Victoria became a huge fan of drugs—and how she brought China to its knees because of it.

The mass slaughters of dogs carried out in Mexico and Europe in the 19 th century seem to have been a rehearsal for the human ...