A brief history of Africa’s most brutal dictator and what his legacy means for Equatorial Guinea today.

Leland’s interest in magic and folklore led him to northern Italy in search of remnants of “the old religion” of witchcraft.

Is it possible to produce common household products that are sustainable and safe?

Harmattan carries more than dust—it also spreads disease.

Out of sight, below the soil’s surface, fungi play a vital role in the existence and health of our forests, woodlands, jungles, and prairies.

In the 1930s, a coalition southern white women fought against lynching, disproving the idea that extrajudicial killings were intended to protect them.

Well-researched stories from ProPublica, Ars Technica, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

The mother-daughter relationship in Hisaye Yamamoto’s fiction is a stand-in for the relationship between the American nation-state and the Nisei male citizens.

When FitzRoy distributed barometers to local fishing communities, he empowered individual sailors to use their own judgment about the weather forecast.

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