A Ragtag Band of Crypto Populists Tried and Failed to Buy the U.S. Constitution in an Epic $43.2 Million Auction Showdown
One of only two privately owned first printings of the U.S. Constitution sold at Sotheby’s New York on Thursday evening for…
After a Long Political Battle, a Statue of Thomas Jefferson Housed at New York’s City Hall Will Move to a History Museum
A controversial sculpture of Thomas Jefferson is moving from the New York City Council Chamber to a new home at…
Editors’ Picks: 14 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From Licensing Lessons for Artists to the Return of Immersive Van Gogh
Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events, both digitally and in-person, in the…
This Year’s Nobel Prize Is Going To Change Everything…
This year’s Nobel Prize is going to change everything you thought you knew about economics… Get between $3 and $100…
A Texas Marketing Company Is Opening a Juneteenth Museum, Promising an Interactive History of the New National Holiday
A National Juneteeth Museum is opening in Fort Worth, Texas, on the site of an existing institution that commemorates the…
A New Polish Law Will Make It Practically Impossible to Pursue Restitution Claims for Nazi-Looted Artworks
Polish President Andrzej Duda has signed a controversial law reducing the statute of limitations on all challenges to allegedly stolen property, making Nazi-looted art…
Jawaharlal Nehru’s vision for a just and equitable post-colonial world, with India leading the way
This piece is part of a new series in collaboration with the ABC’s Saturday Extra program. Each week, the show…
How Golda Meir, Israel’s ‘Iron Lady’, helped establish an independent Jewish state
This piece is part of a new series in collaboration with the ABC’s Saturday Extra program. Each week, the show…
As Part of a $4.5 Billion Oxycontin Settlement, the Sackler Family Has Promised Not to Lend Its Name to Museums for Nine Years
The highly contested Purdue Pharma settlement over the prescription painkiller OxyContin is one step closer to being finalized, as 15…
A Napa Wine Family Has Given the Smithsonian’s American History Museum a $4 Million Gift to Hire a Food and Drink Curator
The wine-making Winiarski family, who founded Napa Valley’s Stag Leap Wine Cellars, just gave the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History $4…
DOJ subpoenaed Apple data on 73 phone numbers, 36 email addresses in leak probe
The Justice Department requested metadata on 73 phone numbers and 36 email addresses in a subpoena to Apple as part…
Peru: Empowering mountain communities | Global Ideas
Villagers in the Manu Biosphere Reserve are actively engaged in protecting the environment while developing ways to make a sustainable…
The Caspian Sea is set to fall by 9 metres or more this century – an ecocide is imminent
Imagine you are on the coast, looking out to sea. In front of you lies 100 metres of barren sand…
Indonesia’s Peats Restoration Agency gets an extension despite falling to hit its target: what are the hurdles and next strategies?
Despite falling short of its target, Indonesia’s Peatland Restoration Agency is likely to continue its work to rehabilitate the country’s…
Climate emergency or not, New Zealand needs to start doing its fair share of climate action
Following this week’s climate emergency declaration, New Zealand will have to face up to the fact it has one of…
One-fifth of ecosystems in danger of collapse – here’s what that might look like
One in five countries are at risk of their ecosystems collapsing, threatening more than half of global GDP (US$42 trillion,…