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Tammy, 71, sits on the curb with her hands clasped on top of her knees, her long tangled hair wrapping around her shoulder and down her chest. She’s been growing it out, she says. It’s a statement. Tammy lost her…
The art world has undergone a reckoning as authorities have seized stolen antiquities from the world’s most prestigious art museums. Museums have collected art for centuries, but efforts to validate their origins have scarcely begun.
Last month, Chile resoundingly voted down a constitution that would have protected a multitude of civil rights. What went wrong?
The summer’s news cycle has been dominated by stories of supreme and state court rulings eroding social protections secured by landmark cases over past decades. The overturning of Roe v. Wade by way of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization…
Exeter’s colonial buildings look the same as they did ten years ago, but the town sounds different now. There’s a gushing noise in the background as if someone’s breathing through their teeth. For over one hundred years, the Exeter River…
1980s, South Korea –– Bak Jong-cheol, a student leader at Seoul National University, was one of many young activists struggling against the South Korean military dictatorship. Later, when Bak was interrogated for his involvement with pro-democracy movements, he refused to…
On May 29, 2022, millions of Colombians voted for change. Since 1998, the country’s broadly right-leaning governments have all been heirs to an old political establishment. Two of its past four presidents — Andrés Pastrana and Juan Manuel Santos, directly…
Delian Asparouhov was an unlikely origin for an unlikely movement. An MIT dropout, he’s worked for a little over three years at the venture capital firm Founders Fund, led by Peter Thiel and Keith Rabois—two deities of the tech world….
