Why was a Māori sweet potato introduced to Nigeria - and what can it tell us about the nature of colonial rule? James Akpu explores the global history of the kūmara.

Archaeopteryx is an evolutionary icon for scientists.

In the early nineteenth century, the British Empire attempted to reform the institution of slavery. Sascha Auerbach explores how enslaved people used this new legal landscape to advocate for their hum...

Tom Suárez’s “Palestine Mapped” is an essential guide to how conceptions and mappings of the “Holy Land” have evolved over millennia and why they continue to influence political thought today.

Alors que les socialistes français avaient dénoncé la conquête du Maroc et militaient pour une solution politique au conflit qui oppose la France à la (…)

From Standing Rock to urban resistance, an unflinching Indigenous land defender confronts colonial power while facing relentless persecution - and her story demands to be heard.

Bea Lumpkin, a daughter of Russian revolutionaries, passed away June 14 at 107 years old. A lifelong communist herself, she began making solidarity trips in support of striking workers when she was ju...

July 4th, 2025.

All Jews must kill Zionism within Judaism

Light eyes, hair, and skins probably evolved several times as Homo sapiens dispersed from Africa. In areas with lower UV radiation, light pigmentat...

70 years ago the UK stepped up a brutal colonial intervention in Malaya, presenting it as a war against Chinese communism.

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Esperanto had always seemed to me like an idealistic movement that had failed. So why was its annual congress so vibrant and full of young people?

Il y a 58 ans, des Algériennes se dévoilaient publiquement à Alger, déclenchant un débat colonial sur l’émancipation féminine, toujours influent dans la société algérienne contemporaine.

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It is true that the New York Knicks' journey to a championship brought disparate communities together, but gentrification remains the norm in the city that is the capital of capital. Black people are ...

Le 28 mai 2026 le Code noir (1685) a été abrogé par l'Assemblée nationale. Une décision nécessaire qui revêt une portée symbolique majeure.

A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

Hindutva is very different from Hinduism. One is a 20th century majoritarian movement, the other an ancient faith.

Over centuries, the narrow channel between the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean changed hands between Portuguese conquerors, Safavid shahs, Arab seafarers and British naval forces

Le 15 mai 1948, suite au vote de la résolution onusienne du 29 novembre 1947 (à l'encontre de la volonté des Palestiniens à l'autodétermination), le mouvement sioniste proclame l'État d'Israël en Pale...

The Haganah attacked Beersheba on 21 October 1948. A week later, David Ben-Gurion came to inspect the town. He admired...

Appalachia has been here before. Not the lithium part, but the part where something valuable gets discovered underneath people who have been poor for a very long time. Coal built fortunes, just not lo...

Plastic has become embedded in everyday life. That’s because for the last 70 years, the plastics industry convinced consumers to embrace the material for its low cost and disposability.

Eye makers for millennia have been trying to re-create the expressionist power of the human body’s most complex and emotionally meaningful visible organ.