3+ day, 13+ hour ago  (660+ words) by Alan Manning+ BIO is professor of economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. His latest book is Why Immigration Policy Is Hard: And How to Make It Better (2025). Edited by Cameron Allan Mc Kean Listen…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago  (68+ words) The grassroots project that's restoring an endangered Hawaiian ecosystem Finding the spirit of Haiti through a tour of its contemporary art The ancient Hawaiian myth that sparked a modern ecological breakthrough The voyages of Ancient Pacific mariners echo in modern…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago  (605+ words) by Ron Po+ BIO Besieging the pirates in Lantau, Hong Kong; detail from a scroll entitled "Pacifying the South China Sea" (1810). Courtesy the Hong Kong Maritime Museum Listen to this essay But empires do not simply turn away from seas…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (730+ words) by Attiya Waris+ BIO Touts on a matatu bus along Moi Avenue in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, 15 July 2025. Thomas Mukoya/Reuters is the United Nations independent expert on foreign debt and human rights, and an inaugurated professor of fiscal law at…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (128+ words) Video by the Metropolitan Museum of Art Producer: Ann C Collins Inside the remarkable, endangered mud castles of West Africa What the "Louvre of the desert" reveals about the human story Steep climbs lead to sacred spaces carved high into…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (757+ words) by Likam Kyanzaire+ BIO is a freelance writer based in Toronto, Canada. His work has appeared in Briarpatch Magazine, the Toronto Star and The Weather Network, among others. Listen to this essay That discovery sent Eglash across the continent. What…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (703+ words) by Noah Charney+ BIO Details from three versions of Caravaggio's The Lute Player (full paintings below). Courtesy Wikipedia is a professor of art history and the founder of the Association for Research into Crimes Against Art (ARCA). His books include…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (492+ words) by Andrew Deming+ BIO Fallingwater, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, Bear Run, Pennsylvania, US. Courtesy the Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress is a designer, strategist, and co-founder of CITRA, a studio in Florida focused on architecture, property, and thoughtful preservation....

2+ mon, 4+ day ago  (615+ words) by Karen Stollznow+ BIO Listen to this essay A single word can tell us a great deal. The journey of bitch, from a literal term for a female dog to one of the most charged words in the English language,…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (788+ words) by Julia Ravanis+ BIO Emmy Noether, c1935. Courtesy the Special Collections digital archives, Bryn Mawr College is a historian of science engaged in a popular science initiative at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. Her main interests are the existential aspects…...