Ancient DNA from Inca mummies is the first genetic proof that European colonists brought smallpox to the Americas. The post ...
Outside Hackney Town Hall last week, while the council was voting to “de-twin” the east London borough from Haifa in Israel, ...
James Crawford’s “The Vanishing Earth” contends that extraction has become more than an economic activity—it has become the ...
Ceuta – and its fellow “enclave” Melilla – have been under Spanish control since the 1400s. By the progressive definition of ...
Competing accounts of the deadly Tell confrontation highlight growing tensions over settler violence, Palestinian attacks, and the risk of a wider uprising.
The Pacific island nation of Nauru has been renamed the Republic of Naoero, according to its president, for better ...
South African universities must resist donors who use financial power to impose political obedience.
From the blog of David D. Cohen at The Times of Israel ...
A landmark judgment of South Africa’s Constitutional Court has reignited one of the defining legal debates of our age: when political upheaval transforms an ordinary migrant into a refugee, does the ...
Competing Israeli and Palestinian accounts of the deadly confrontation near Nablus highlight deep disputes over settler violence, terrorism, and the risk of wider unrest The deadly confrontation in ...
Left-wing forces have a blind spot when it comes to dealing with Islamic fundamentalism. We shy away from the debate, gloss over or downplay problems that actually exist. And when we do engage, we do ...