Archaeology
THE PRICE OF PURPLE
Archaeologists have found new evidence of a robust dye industry that endured on the Mediterranean coast for millennia
10+ min |
November/December 2020
Archaeology
IN THE REIGN OF THE SUN KINGS
Old Kingdom pharaohs faced a reckoning that reshaped Egypt’s balance of power
10+ min |
November/December 2020
Archaeology
WEAVING FOR THEIR ANCESTORS
For 1,000 years, the Paracas people of Peru expressed their vivid conception of life and death through textiles
10 min |
November/December 2020
Archaeology
The Great Wall of Mongolia
A nomadic medieval dynasty constructed a 450-mile barrier to help manage their sprawling empire
8 min |
November/December 2020
Archaeology
CANADA'S FORGOTTEN CAPITAL
Beneath the streets of Old Montreal, the rubble of a short-lived Parliament building offers a glimpse into a young country’s growing pains
10+ min |
November/December 2020
Poets & Writers Magazine
A Chicago Press for the People
On September 24, 2009, sixteen-year-old student Derrion Albert was beaten to death outside of Christian Fenger Academy High School, on the South Side of Chicago, in broad daylight. Though there were many witnesses, one of whom captured the attack on cell-phone video, no one stepped in to help. The footage of the murder went viral, highlighting the severity of the city’s youth violence epidemic, as Albert was the third teenager killed in Chicago that month.
4 min |
November - December 2020
Bloomberg Businessweek
Becoming the Notorious RBG
Ginsburg found pop superstardom late in life—and that may ensure that her dissents echo into the future
9 min |
September 28, 2020
Bloomberg Businessweek
A Wealth of Opportunity But For Whom?
Over seven decades, Norfolk leveraged federal tax breaks to remake itself. Now the Virginia city is using them to demolish its historically Black neighborhoods
10+ min |
September 28, 2020
The Atlantic
The New Southern Strategy
How Black mayors in the South are leveraging both the power of office and the power of the street to achieve overdue changes
10+ min |
October 2020
The Atlantic
Claudia Rankine's Quest for Racial Dialogue
Is her focus on the personal out of step with the racial politics of our moment?
10 min |
October 2020
Reason magazine
Abolish Qualified Immunity
This court-invented doctrine shields bad cops from civil liability.
8 min |
October 2020
The Atlantic
Can An Unlove Child Learn to Love?
Thirty years ago, the world discovered tens of thousands of children warehoused in Romanian orphanages, deprived of human contact and affection. They’re adults now.
10+ min |
July - August 2020
Mother Jones
True West
The legendary Texas Ranger have a dark history of brutality and impunity. Now, they're facing a reckoning a century in the making.
10+ min |
September/October 2020
Archaeology
WALKING INTO NEW WORLDS
Native traditions and novel discoveries tell the migration story of the ancestors of the Navajo and Apache
10+ min |
September/October 2020
Archaeology
Wealth of a Medieval Power Broker
In England’s far northeast, a commanding bishop built a chapel rivaling the grandest in Europe
10+ min |
September/October 2020
Archaeology
SOUTH AFRICA'S FATEFUL SHIPWRECK
A seventeenth-century vessel foundered off the coast and transformed a nation’s history
9 min |
September/October 2020
Archaeology
SIBERIAN ISLAND ENIGMA
It’s hard to imagine that a tiny tree ring could help solve one of the medieval world’s most puzzling mysteries.
2 min |
September/October 2020
Archaeology
RESISTING ROME
How a Celtic tribe fought to defend their Iberian homeland against the emperor’s legions
10+ min |
September/October 2020
Archaeology
MOUSE IN THE HOUSE
Mice may have begun infesting European homes at least 2,500 years earlier than previously known.
1 min |
September/October 2020
Archaeology
INSIDE THE ROCK'S SURPRISING HISTORY
Before it was an infamous prison, Fort Alcatraz played a key role defending the West Coast
10+ min |
September/October 2020
Archaeology
CLOSING IN ON A PHARAOH'S TOMB
Archaeologists excavating in the Egyptian royal necropolis of Deir el-Bahari, on the west bank of the Nile, believe they have found the long-sought location of the tomb of the early 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Thutmose II (r. ca. 1492–1479 b.c.).
1 min |
September/October 2020
The Atlantic
The Relentless Erin Brockovich
She was an early crusader for environmental justice. Today, she’s sounding the alarm louder than ever.
10 min |
September 2020
The Atlantic
What Is MasterClass Actually Selling?
The Ads are everywhere: You can learn to serve like Serena Williams, write like Margaret Atwood, act like Natalie Portman. But what MasterClass really delivers is something altoguether different.
10+ min |
September 2020
Archaeology
A Rare Egg
Egyptian ostrich egg perfume case
1 min |
September/October 2020
Archaeology
LETTER FROM NORMANDY: THE LEGACY OF THE LONGEST DAY
More than 75 years after D-Day, the Allied invasion’s impact on the French landscape is still not fully understood
10+ min |
July/August 2020
Archaeology
Idol of the Painted Temple
On Peru’s central coast, an ornately carved totem was venerated across centuries of upheaval and conquest
8 min |
July/August 2020
Archaeology
THE EMPEROR OF STONES
In the language of the Vikings, Old Norse, rök means “monolith,” and no other runestone stands out from its peers in more ways than Sweden’s Rök.
3 min |
July/August 2020
Archaeology
HAGIA SOPHIA'S HIDDEN HISTORY
Unprecedented fieldwork in Istanbul has revealed new evidence of the cathedral at the heart of the Byzantine Empire
10+ min |
July/August 2020
Archaeology
THE POWER OF SECRET SOCIETIES
Clandestine groups throughout history have used shadowy rituals to control the world around them
10+ min |
July/August 2020
Techlife News
Ban The Confederate Flag? NASCAR Could See The End Of An Era
The familiar scene of Confederate flags waved by fans at NASCAR tracks could soon be a relic of racing’s good ol’ boy roots.
5 min |