The recent violent attack on Club Q, an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, happened in a place shaped by decades…
What Commentators Get Wrong (and Right) About North KoreaAn anthropologist argues that unfair portrayals of North Korea as a hopelessly irrational hermit state has huge implications for policy…
Heritage Forensics Is Tackling Devastating New Forms of Cultural ErasureIn the Caucasus, researchers are using aerospace technology to expose the clandestine obliteration of Armenian cultural heritage. These new methods…
When Women Answer the Call of DutyFrom Syria to Ukraine, the sight of women taking up arms to fight for a cause calls audiences to attention.…
Archaeology at the Borders of the Refugee CrisisArchaeological methods, which are typically used to study the past, can also illuminate the experiences of today’s displaced people. This…
What’s Behind the Backlash to Lightyear’s Animated Kiss?What do Twitter debates over Disney-Pixar’s recent family film tell us about today’s parenting politics in the U.S.? ✽ On…
An Archaeology of Personhood and AbortionOpinions about fetal personhood and abortion have fluctuated enormously throughout history and differ in surprising ways between cultures. ✽ After…
Stop Projecting Nationalism Onto StonehengeTwo archaeologists respond to the portraits of Queen Elizabeth II beamed onto Stonehenge—the latest attempt to appropriate the monument for nationalist messages.
We Should Talk More About the Abortion PillThe abortion pill revolutionized activists’ fight for reproductive rights in Ireland in the 2000s—but in the U.S., cultural narratives have been slow to catch up to how medication has transformed abortion access.
Unmasked: Illustrating COVID-19 in OkobojiAn anthropologist and comic artist collaborated to bring to life the cultural squabbles and social complexities of the first pandemic year in Okoboji, a tourist town in northwest Iowa.