Display of prehistoric stone tools at Melka Kunture Prehistoric Site -- Richard Mortel, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Deborah...

By Vijay Prashad At 10 p.m. on the night of October 28, 2024, the Israeli air force struck a five-story building in Beit Lahiya, in the...

By Brenna R. Hassett There is a great deal of attention in modern societies to inequality and the social problems it causes. Often...

We know from history that there are many ways we can live together—let’s explore the idea. Aerroscape & Lino Zeddies, CC BY-SA 4.0 By...

The skyline of Perth seen from Kings Park, Western Australia -- Calistemon, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>...

When COVID-19 hit, U.S. bookshops were an endangered species. Olympia, Washington’s largest independent bookstore survived by embracing...

What draws us to such a distant and long-gone time? A fruitful relationship has always existed between prehistory (a scientific...

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

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

Protest against the Israeli war on Gaza outside the New York Times building, November, 2023 -- image via X By Norman Solomon As the Gaza...

Human technologies have continued to evolve exponentially since the end of the Paleolithic: today we are using them to learn more about...

By Richard D. Wolff The evidence suggests that empires often react to periods of their own decline by over-extending their coping...

Skid Row Los Angeles By Richard D. Wolff From its beginnings, the capitalist economic system produced both critics and celebrants, those...

The North Missoula Community Development Corporation brings permanent affordable housing to Montana. Image via the North Missoula...

By Richard D. Wolff As the French economist Thomas Piketty most recently exposed, capitalism, across time and space, has always tended to...

Ancient human retrovirus DNA could be one of the markers of susceptibility to mental illness—specifically schizophrenia, bipolar...

Bike co-ops uphold a tradition of self-empowerment through cycling. Vegasjon, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4....

Composite By Richard D. Wolff Fans of capitalism like to say it is democratic or that it supports democracy. Some have stretched language...

By Brenna R. Hassett, Human Bridges We know that humans live relatively long lives, and we certainly know that we spend a larger...

Collaborative efforts between forest agencies and Indigenous communities are improving wildfire management by combining oral histories...