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We can protect our communities from commodification, but it takes work

The first myth to dispense with: That there’s almost no research on quote tweets! I added to this misconception with my December…

Being curious and obsessed can lead to interesting places

The firing of an art historian at Hamline University after dubious 'Islamophobia' claims further dislocates the religion from its history

“Anger continued on past its usefulness becomes unjust, then dangerous… It fuels not positive activism but regression, obsession, vengeance, self-righteousness. Corrosive, it feeds off …

Investigators found suspect Bryan Kohberger with the method that solved the Golden State Killer case. But they aren’t saying so.

Russians haven't risen up and overthrown their government like some of their neighbors. No, not because something is wrong with them.

Young Muslim women in Karnataka recount how a court order legitimised Hindutva prejudice and locked them out of an education.

And he got it from an unlikely, although unknown, source.

So is it even possible to make a video game that resists capitalism-colonialism?

After their removal from the region around Chicago in the early nineteenth century, Native Americans began returning to the city in the 1950s under the federal government's ill-planned relocation policy. Chicago has the oldest urban Indian center, and the third largest urban population of Native Americans.

The dismissal of an instructor at Hamline University on baseless charges of 'Islamophobia' raises concerns about freedom on campus

On Hamline University's shocking imposition of narrow religious orthodoxy in the classroom.

In Diyarbakır, Turkey, one 24-year-old is documenting an ancient practice and popularising it among a new generation.

Research finds secret of durability of buildings such as the Pantheon could be in the techniques used at the time

Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

As layoffs in the tech sector mount, Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer is worried. Research – by him, and others – has shown that the stress layoffs create takes a devastating toll on behavioral and physical health and increases mortality and morbidity substantially. Layoffs literally kill people, he said.

The convergence of global diets means just three crops provide 50% of the world’s calories. When shocks come, they hurt.

A note in Ajami, a modified Arabic script, from Fallou Ngom's late father opened the door to a lifetime of discovery in African language and history.

Bans. Danger. Polarisation. The cross-border harmonies of Indian and Pakistani pop culture have been imperilled over the last few years. But fandom, and cultural memory, survives against increasing odds — A new story from the Indian sub-continent to the world, each week on FiftyTwo.in

Whereas American narratives focus on the individual, the Blackfoot way of life offers an alternative of a community that leaves no one behind

Far from being profoundly destructive, we humans have deep capacities for sharing resources with generosity and foresight

A scandal has fractured the world of medieval historians, and it turns on the meaning of a single word of Medieval Latin. The word is “raptus” and it appears in a batch of late fourteenth century legal documents pertaining to Geoffrey Chaucer, famous author of The Canterbury Tales. In late 2022, two scholars announced a […]

Miniature Calendar is an incredible ongoing project by Japanese artist Tatsuya Tanaka, that features beautiful miniature dioramas of everyday life using

Stay woke: How a Black activist watchword got co-opted in the culture war.

28 November 2022 Edited December 29 2022