Confucius himself—Kong Zi, or Master Kong, who lived between 551 and 479 B.C.—was one of many thinkers in the early Warring ...

Launched in 2009, it quickly became the nervous system of China’s civic sphere. Before Weibo, feminist organizers could hand out newsletters or hold a small meeting but never get on state TV; ...

Now, the planets of Tau Andromeda are overgrown with wildlife, nature reclaiming the skyscrapers of a once-advanced ...

A clear expression of Seattle Symphony Music Director Xian Zhang's vision arrives Feb. 12-15 with "Iris Unveiled," being ...

A new history charts how Palestinian militants of the nineteen-seventies made common cause with West Germany’s radical left.

Five brief words triggered this column. “Before it was a ‘thing’,” wrote my friend Delna Sanghvi, under a charming mid-1980s display picture on her phone. It showed her mother around a mahjong table ...

The US president should read history before making what could prove to be the costliest foreign policy mistake of his presidency ...

As markets grapple with the growing debate around an “AI capex bubble,” ALPS Capital Management is urging investors to ...

African leaders made a collective decision not to contest colonial borders. Since 1960, Studwell counts five interstate wars and 38 civil wars. “Most of Africa was frozen as an atomised, pre-modern ...

In this unusually eventful — mostly not in good ways — year for higher education, it’s salutary to be reminded how much good ...

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was an Italian astronomer, physicist, and mathematician, often referred to as the "father of modern science." He made significant contributions to scientific revolution, ...

When a lie about Haitians in Ohio spread nationwide, a pioneering Haitian-American journalist was forced to ask if belonging will always be conditional, that exile is not about geography, it’s the ...