A new biography of Stephen Hawking presents the renowned physicist not simply as a scientific celebrity who overcame severe disability, but as a researcher whose relationships, intellectual clarity and determination were central
From a converted barn in New Hampshire, with an American flag draped behind him, Ken Burns looks back across nearly five decades of documenting the United States. The filmmaker, widely known as
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The winding roads of the Texas Hill Country lead not only through the landscape that shaped Lyndon Baines Johnson, but also through the unresolved questions surrounding the meaning of American leadership, democracy
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King Felipe VI of Spain and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum have moved to restore diplomatic ties between their countries after seven years of political tension, meeting Thursday at Mexico’s National Palace in
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Two decades ago, I was in South Africa with the Malawian economist Thandika Mkandawire (1940–2020). We were talking about his generation of scholars, who came of age during the national liberation movements.
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Across the world, the strength of a governing party is often measured through numbers: approval ratings, economic indicators, or public surveys. In China, another indicator is remarkable: the number of Party members
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Forty-two years after Operation Blue Star, the events of June 1984 remain among the most consequential and contested episodes in modern Indian history. What began as a military operation aimed at removing
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In the history of modern science, few figures embody the intersection of discovery, identity and institutional struggle as profoundly as Abdus Salam. Born on January 29, 1926, and remembered for his groundbreaking
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A historic and bloody conflict took place 269 years ago at a place called Palashi, on the banks of the Bhagirathi River, about 50 kilometers north of Krishnanagar in Nadia district of
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Michael Heseltine spent six decades at the centre of British political life, occupying some of the highest offices of state and becoming one of the Conservative Party’s most recognisable figures. Yet, at
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Another of the five police stations captured by the rebels during the April 1971 uprising was the Warakapola Police Station in the Kegalle District. The rebels who captured the Warakapola Police Station
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In the remote northern region of Coahuila, Mexico, a small community is fighting to preserve a history that crosses borders and centuries. El Nacimiento, a rural village near the Sierra de Santa
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The discovery and continuing excavation of human remains at the Chemmani mass grave in northern Sri Lanka have intensified demands for answers from the government and renewed calls for international attention to
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The deeper we explore humanity’s past, the harder it becomes to sustain some of the most powerful political myths of the modern world. For more than a century, authoritarian ideologies have sought
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In a March 2026 paper published in the journal Science Advances, which focused on variability in governance along the autocratic-democratic axis, my coauthors and I found that one of the strongest associations for the 40
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In the mid-1980s, as Sri Lanka’s ethnic conflict moved toward a more dangerous phase, US intelligence analysts assessed that Colombo faced a difficult choice: pursue a negotiated settlement with Tamil militants or
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