The recent violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, likely won’t be the last attempt by white supremacists to stoke racial conflict. An anthropologist offers insights to other communities that might face similar challenges.

The ethical, legal, and research-oriented tools of archaeology can encourage Native American self-determination rather than undermine it.

We should not try to erase our nation’s history of racism. But we should feel ashamed of it.

Primates are in big trouble. And it’s our fault.

The United States is divided between those who came together to support the inauguration of President Donald Trump on January 20 and those who gathered for human rights on January 21. Can we knit it back together?

Well before his inauguration, Trump’s incoming administration and Cabinet picks were breaking down definitions of conflict of interest and stretching the bounds of normalcy. Far from “draining the swamp,” Trump has added to it.

Indigenous people in the U.S. are increasingly challenging widespread stereotypes as well as the practice of cultural appropriation.

We live our lives filled with wild contradictions. An anthropologist argues that it’s good we do.

Dictionaries are typically viewed as being value-neutral. But they are just as steeped in culture and prejudice as the rest of the world—and they have the power to shape what we see as “normal.”

The everyday discrimination against black people in the United States bears frightening similarities to the suppression of Tamils in Sri Lanka.