Native American oral history and archaeological data alike suggest that farmers in parts of North America began abandoning major settlements such as Mesa Verde in Colorado and Cahokia in Illinois ...

Gold has just crossed a milestone no asset class has ever reached before—a $30 trillion market cap. That number alone says a lot about where investors are seeking safety and what they expect from the ...

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“We made the world we’re living in,” writes James Baldwin, “and we have to make it over.” Today these words ring truer than ever as we confront a deep moral crisis, one that threatens the very ...

Learned, lively and often irreverent, David McWilliams’s “The History of Money” is rich with surprising details about currency, then and now. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an independently ...

Over the next five years, New York City will welcome two new momentous spaces for the arts, both along Manhattan’s iconic Fifth Avenue, some 40 blocks apart. The first is an airy new $550-million wing ...

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There’s a practical way to break that loop whether you’re a frontline employee or a senior leader: the steering guide. It’s a one-page, simple framework that translates strategy from “what we say” ...

Within just 24 hours, Erin went from a Category 1 hurricane to a Category 5. Here’s how that happened. Reading time 2 minutes The Atlantic’s first hurricane of 2025 wasted no time making history.

The Haitian scholar Michel-Rolph Trouillot said that "any historical narrative is a particular bundle of silences." To form the historical narrative that suits him, President Donald Trump is silencing ...

Henry Kissinger once compared himself to the lone cowboy who rode into town to sort out the bad guys. But the U.S. secretary of state, who also served as national security adviser, knew different when ...

Zug Island may not be the prettiest piece of property in all of Michigan. Pipes twisting and turning, concrete and steel structures belching steam, piles of coal and miles of railroad track, all ...