A new exhibition at The Met Cloisters makes the case that gender and sexual fluidity were an essential part of Medieval religious art.

A new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature.   In Black Knights, Rachel Schine reveals how the Arabic-speaking world developed a different form of racial knowledge than their Europe...

Protesters in Nigeria have disrupted this week’s opening of a major museum of West African art, where local disputes over the world-renowned Benin Bronzes have already kept them from being put on disp...

Governments have failed to limit global warming. What comes next?

"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."

Total referrals reach record high, with 21% being due to ‘extreme rightwing concerns’ and 10% to Islamist ideology More suspected far-right extremists were referred to the government’s anti-terrorism programme Prevent last year than those suspected of Islamist extremism, annual figures show. In total, 8,778 referrals were made because of suspicions of extremist radicalisation in the year to March 2025, 27% more than the previous year and the highest number of referrals in a single year since records began 10 years ago. Continue reading...

The Mamdani campaign extended the arena of political participation to ordinary and unseen people of every place and pursuit. The challenge going forward will be sustaining faith in the idea that the c...

The David Hogg affair, Zohran Mamdani’s win, and the future of the Democratic coalition.

Scots have afforded a warm welcome to the newly opened Palestine Museum in Edinburgh, which showcases the joy, vibrancy, and unavoidable horror of Palestinian diaspora art.

The Democratic party appears listless and unprincipled, unwilling to fight because they do not believe in anything. Zohran Mamdani is the opposite of this

Like 'monks' in the Middle Ages, volunteers are working to preserve cultural treasures they fear are under threat from President Trump’s war against 'woke.'

Like the steam engine, electricity, and computers, generative artificial intelligence could take longer than expected to transform the economy.

More than 5,000 law enforcement departments across the U.S. use interconnected Flock Safety cameras to track residents’ movements.

Already overwhelmed food pantries, banks and churches across Massachusetts are scrambling, pleading for donations as more than 1 million people's SNAP benefits are set to expire this weekend.

Opinion: Fenway Health must return to its roots and care for those the government casts aside, writes Erin Reed.