To the loser go the spoils? Hats off to the politicians who accept defeat — despite Trump’s influence
In Canada, the recent provincial election in British Columbia shows just how important it is for losing politicians to accept ...
Will the lights go out on Cuba’s communist leaders? With fewer options to prop up economy, their future looks dimmer
Blackouts on the Caribbean island are shining a light on a crumbling economy that the nation’s communist leaders may struggle ...
Kristallnacht’s legacy still haunts Hamburg − even as the city rebuilds a former synagogue burned in the Nazi pogrom
Questions about how to represent German Jews, past and present, have complicated plans to rebuild the destroyed temple.
Les Brics+ pourraient façonner un nouvel ordre mondial, mais ils manquent de valeurs partagées et d'une identité unifiée
Les Brics+ sont une organisation pilotée par les les États où la société civile est reléguée au second plan. Il rappelle l’ ...
Guerre et surnaturel : d'anciens soldats congolais racontent les pratiques rituelles utilisées pour se préparer au combat
Les rituels peuvent constituer une véritable force pour les soldats, en leur procurant un sentiment accru de confiance et de ...
Cells have more mini ‘organs’ than researchers thought − unbound by membranes, these rogue organelles challenge biology’s fundamentals
Membraneless organelles, also called biomolecular condensates, are changing how scientists think about protein chemistry, ...
Only 5.3% of welders in the US are women. After years as a writing professor, I became one − here’s what I learned
When I received my diploma in welding in May 2022, I’d already found the place I wanted to work: Howe’s Welding and Metal ...
Carl Sagan’s scientific legacy extends far beyond ‘Cosmos’
On what would’ve been the astronomer’s 90th trip around the Sun, here’s a look at his legacy as a scientist, advocate and ...
Beefing up Border Patrol is a bipartisan goal, but the agency has a troubled history of violence and impunity
Created in 1924 to enforce draconian new immigration quotas, Border Patrol recruited its first agents from the Texas Rangers ...
Is the election making you feel adrift and wobbly? That’s ‘zozobra’ – and Mexican philosophers have some advice
Mexican philosophers have a word for the peculiar anxiety you may be feeling: ‘zozobra,’ a dizziness that arises from social disintegration.
How Native Americans guarded their societies against tyranny
Native American communities were elaborate consensus democracies, many of which had survived for generations because of ...