It should come as no surprise to those of us with even a cursory understanding of the history of U.S. imperialism that the once sovereign Kingdom of Hawai’i became the very first state in the nation ...
The standard version of colonialism, explains Adam Kirsch in his provocative and important new book, involves a relatively small group of colonists—mostly colonial administrators, merchants, and ...
Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is ...
University of Cambridge research associate Harriet Mercer on how colonialism has fuelled global warming and made many communities more vulnerable to its effects Colonialism, the report asserts, has ...
Long before colonialism brought slavery to the Caribbean, the native islanders saw hurricanes and storms as part of the ...
Harriet Mercer is a member of the Making Climate History project, which receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust. The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)‘s sixth and latest report on the ...
Michael Ippolito is a member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation. OXON HILL, Md.—The Earth is warming, and while many worry about the potential consequences of the change, it is ...
On a sweltering January day in 2018, Pope Francis addressed 100,000 of the faithful in Puerto Maldonado, Peru, not far from where gold mining had ravaged an expanse of Amazon rainforest about the size ...
Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature (in 2016). Other past winners include Pär Fabian Lagerkvist (1951), Ivo Andric (1961), Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson (1903), José Echegaray (1904), ...