While the magazine has closed, its living archive endures—open to all and preserving the many ideas, voices, and discoveries that deepen our understanding of what it means to be human.
Chinese journalists reporting from abroad grapple with a conflicted identity, facing both censorship and the perception that their work often serves nationalistic goals.
Ancestry Tests Pose a Threat to Our Social FabricCommercial DNA testing isn’t just harmless entertainment. It’s keeping alive ideas that deserve to die.
Grief Can Make Us WiseGrief makes sense of loss and opens us to rebuilding all that is meaningful in life. Society would benefit if public grief were acknowledged more.
The Shameful Persistence of White Supremacy in the United StatesThis loathsome worldview continues to have an outsize impact on U.S. culture. Can Black Lives Matter and other progressive movements do anything about it?
Are Religious People More Moral?Cultures around the world share the belief that atheists lack morality. The evidence, however, tells a different story.
Is the United Nations Broken?Anthropologists turned the U.N. into a field site. Their studies highlight the U.N.’s fragility, but we shouldn’t give up on the organization just yet.
Three Lessons I Learned From CharlottesvilleThe 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.
Confronting Cultural Imperialism in Native American ArchaeologyThe ethical, legal, and research-oriented tools of archaeology can encourage Native American self-determination rather than undermine it.
The Ku Klux Klan and the Value of ShameWe should not try to erase our nation’s history of racism. But we should feel ashamed of it.
New Study: 60 Percent of Primate Species Threatened With ExtinctionPrimates are in big trouble. And it’s our fault.
