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For William Kentridge, searching and erasure serves as a model for understanding our place in the world.
For black South Africans, the hard lesson was the same as it had been during the Boer war: support for Britain would bring few rewards.
There’s been significant advances in mental health genetics research, but Africa has largely been excluded.
The success of the women’s movement shows the importance of international solidarity.
Scientists at Cern’s Large Hadron Collider have seen something that may force us to abandon everything we thought we knew about the world on the level of particles.
The de Young Museum of San Francisco recently opened an exhibit devoted to the Islamic fashion scene. Here’s how Muslim women’s fashions challenge popular stereotypes.
The Democrats are favoured to win control of the US House, but it may be closer than expected.
The threat to use force to defend Egypt’s right to water from the Nile has been a common theme through successive governments.
Hipsters exhibit a nostalgia for the past that echoes right-leaning political movements around the world.
Students need to be taught about colonialism’s dark past.
Donor premiums are a common fundraising tactic. But recent research suggests that they are not cost-effective.
According to a new study, the oceans have absorbed more heat from climate change than previously thought. This could mean the Earth will warm even faster in the future than scientists have predicted.
Indonesia should start investing in mental health care and ensuring that each Puskesmas has enough human resources to detect, treat and care for people with mental disorders.
When immigrants come to the US, it isn’t just the people who assimilate. The microbes in their gut also become Westernized after living here. This may predispose them to diseases like obesity.
The very first cyberattack clogged up the nascent internet, halting digital communications. Now much bigger, the internet is still largely open to – and suffering regularly from – similar attacks.
South African voters are worried about how their country is being run. Most still support the ANC but in far fewer numbers.
A migrant caravan of almost 7,000 people who left Guatemala and Honduras is heading north towards the United States. The reasons they are leaving are complex but involve a U.S.-backed violent history.
Standing 240m tall, the Statue of Unity celebrates India’s development. But jarringly, it towers over a divisive and environmentally damaging dam project.
Satoshi Nakamoto proposed Bitcoin in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.
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