At just the time when Beijing had decided that thirty years of plastic waste importation had done unforgivable harm to the ...

The Indonesian government’s plan to release new history books has sparked concerns that some of the country’s darkest ...

Renaissance writers reassessed their history, inventing terms like the Dark Ages — to the eternal chagrin of medievalists — ...

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Conceptual problems, ideology clashes and xenophobia prevented the concept of zero from catching on for a long time. Today all mathematics is based on it ...

Today the geopolitical relations of many nations are dominated by division and polarization. But culture, people and politics ...

Whether or not you have a sister (or more than one!), you know that this sibling relationship can be complicated, to say the ...

The Handmaid's Tale' book and TV series reflect currents of political turmoil, particularly rising authoritarianism in the ...