Giorgio Buccellati’s At the Origins of Politics takes readers to the early stages of a process that became the structure of modern life....

By Vijay Prashad After news broke that Han Kang—the South Korean author—had won the Nobel Prize for Literature, her father—the novelist...

The seven steps that could help build a social movement and ensure a sustainable future. kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0...

You can learn a lot about humanity from the first technological revolutions of more than 10,000 years ago. By Brenna R. Hassett, Human...

Despite corporate commitments, deforestation rates remain high, and community land conflicts continue. Activists protest P&G's role in...

Commercial financial flows to the forest-risk commodity sectors are driving the majority of tropical deforestation. By Laurel Sutherlin...

The promise of AI is eclipsed by its perils, which include our own annihilation. By Richard Heinberg Those advocating for artificial...

By Brenna R. Hassett Anthropological science is our species’ attempt to address our most fundamental questions about who we are and how...

Mother sperm whale and her baby -- Gabriel Barathieu, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia...