When India Reinvented Prints

Two forceful exhibitions have shown how Indian artists and presses met the cultural upheaval of the nineteenth century with lithographic prints that rendered Hindu gods more approachable and helped to galvanize national identity.

The Judeo-Bolshevist Target

Popular memory in the West tends to separate the Holocaust from the German war against the Soviet Union, but for the Nazi regime they were two faces of the same undertaking.

Compromised Values

Joe Manchin’s memoir reveals that the West Virginian Senator worshipped “work” at the expense of supporting his party’s efforts to help working people.

When The Machines Deserve Our Consideration

We will never know for sure if AI can be conscious. A neuroscientist argues that we shouldn’t wait for proof to decide how to treat it.

Song of Our Cells

Though a mystery to Darwin in his lifetime, the constant mutation of our genes is what allows for life’s magnificent diversity.

Hungary: The Flood

Peter Magyar’s landslide electoral victory in April made clear that after sixteen years, Hungarians were tired of Viktor Orbán.

Is the Artist Present?

By transforming her own old paintings into new works of art, Eliza Douglas raises questions about sincerity and cynicism.

The New Ellis Island

A history of five families in El Paso reveals the city’s significance as a bellwether of America’s immigration policy.