Despite the slowdown in funding for the arts, Miami institutions are putting on their best looks this fall. Here’s what intrigues us: ...

The back roads around Paradise are perfect for Sunday drives. You’ll pass one-room schoolhouses where Amish children learn in much the same way their grandparents did. Roadside stands appear like ...

Nestled between the ridges of central Pennsylvania, Belleville sits in what locals call Kishacoquillas Valley (try saying that five times fast), a fertile agricultural haven where time moves at the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The African Union has started an effort to oust the Mercator projection map and replace it with what it says is a more accurately drawn map. The 16 ...

Warning: This post discusses sexual assault. Before she became one of Hollywood’s most beloved actors, Natalie Portman got her start around 10 years old, when she was approached to do modeling by a ...

Critic Leonardo Goi considers the 2025 Venice Film Festival, including titles “No Other Choice,” “Rose of Nevada,” “Bugonia” ...

Ecuadorian director Ana Cristina Barragán's third feature world premieres in Venice's Horizons program: "I want to push the boundaries of the intimacies we’ve come to accept as normal." By Georg ...

The map of the world as you know it – the Mercator projection – isn’t totally accurate. And Africa is leading the charge to get rid of it for good. Last week, the African Union, a continental union of ...

The world’s top GeoGuessr players in Copenhagen for the 2025 World Championship. But how did a simple Street View guessing game become a global phenomenon and an esports spectacle? One moment you’re ...

Two Africa-based advocacy groups, Africa No Filter and Speak Up Africa, launched a change-the-map campaign in April. “When whole generations, in Africa and elsewhere, learn from a distorted map, they ...

President Trump has cut hundreds of thousands of jobs from the federal work force, disproportionately affecting Black employees. Dr. Peggy Carr, the chief statistician at the Education Department, was ...

Disregard what you learned in geography class—Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized the same lineup: Africa, ...