The History of Sweden’s Colonial Empire | History is Now
History in 28-minutesby History Is Now Magazine·29 Jul 2026
The Swedish colonial empire is not often discussed in the context of European colonialism; however, the powerful country of Sweden did hold territories across the Americas, Africa, and Asia.
Bangladesh’s Islamist resurgence threatens women’s rights
Himal Southasianby Nawshin Flora·29 Jul 2026
Bangladesh’s Islamist extremist resurgence has feminists raising the alarm As right-wing Islamist extremist groups gain in Bangladesh, feminists are fighting for women’s rights and gender equality...
By his fruits shall we know him? • Robert Phiddian
Inside Storyby Administrator·29 Jul 2026
Anyone who tells you religion and politics don’t mix is either a fool or a knave. J.D. Vance is nobody’s fool.
“The Persian *Mâr-Nâmeh* or, The Book for Taking Omens from Snakes” (1892)
Public Domain Reviewby Joobin Bekhrad·28 Jul 2026
Addressing the Bombay Anthropological Society on the night of November 30, 1892, its then-president — George Waters, a British surgeon and lieutenant colonel — discussed a rather esoteric work: a...
Read_948 – The Battle for Monetary Independence
Bitcoin Audibleby Guy Swann·28 Jul 2026
“Your savings represent hours you worked, risks you accepted, businesses you built, time spent away from people you love, and consumption you postponed for the sake of the future.
Growing Mutant Bacteria To Save Earth | NOEMA
Noema Magazineby Matthew Ponsford·28 Jul 2026
Matthew Ponsford is a London-based writer and researcher. BARCELONA, Spain — The microbes have assembled themselves into the rough shape of an open hand, reaching out from fluid at the bottom of...
Attention Is All I “Have”
iHack, therefore iBlogby Dr. Ernie·28 Jul 2026
The Self as Attentional Architecture Abstract We propose a radical simplification of agency by exploring an attention-based architecture for subjective experience.
The great divide • Inside Story
Inside Storyby Administrator·27 Jul 2026
At the end of Australia Fair?, James Walter and Carolyn Holbrook’s monumental, sprawling and somewhat disheartening history of social policy in Australia over the past eighty years, we are left...
There Is No Life That Cannot Be Successfully Prosecuted From the Right Angle
The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty·26 Jul 2026
My mother does not understand adventure. This is not entirely true. She understands adventure as an abstract category, the way I understand the concept of debt: I accept that it exists, but I would...
What is it about The West of America? The Importance of the West in America | History is Now
History in 28-minutesby History Is Now Magazine·25 Jul 2026
What is it about the west? Why is country music listened to in every corner, region, city, small town, and house across the United States?
GeoAI: Understanding The New Grammar
ARKives·22 Jul 2026
GeoAI: Understanding The New Grammar Table of contents: This is the second part of the Decoding GeoAI series, an attempt to make sense of that new AI language.
Standing with strangers, a Tbilisi story - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Frankie Mills·21 Jul 2026
We’re inching forwards through the thick smog that has cloaked Tbilisi for days. At first, I thought it was a kind of blueish, pink winter mist that makes the city feel like it’s in an ongoing...
Wiring Capital to Compute
Palladium Magazineby Daniel Painter·20 Jul 2026
Over a thousand acres of land in Abilene, Texas, lie flattened with graded earth and poured concrete.
For some in Australia, hope is fading and anger is rising
ABC Newsby Cindy Wockner·19 Jul 2026
Sulaiman Zandinan does not pause to think about the question. What does being Australian mean to you? "Proud. Amazing. Freedom. Supportive. Happiness. Perfection," he said.
Mesa-Optimization is Destroying Education
Palladium Magazineby Matt Duffy·17 Jul 2026
In 1976 the social scientist and cyberneticist Donald T. Campbell developed a principle, now known as Campbell’s Law, that would later become one of the most reliable diagnostics of institutional...
Watching the Grass Grow: Passing My Millennial Childhood on to Gen Alpha
Narrativelyby Aj Hannah·15 Jul 2026
Photos courtesy the author. This story is part of our ongoing series From the Ground Up, a collaboration between Narratively and ScottsMiracle-Gro exploring the lives, memories, and connections...
The Death Years
Guernicaby Mahreen Sohail·15 Jul 2026
My son likes tomatoes, birds, dogs, cats, string cheese, the pedestrian wait signal at the traffic light. He says, “park” and “up” and “off”. He says “baahir” for outside and “ao” for come.
The Poems Will Not Stop: An Interview with Kathy Engel
Guernicaby Tyler Barton and Kathy Engel·15 Jul 2026
In November 1982—in the midst of Israel’s second invasion of Lebanon and on the heels of its massacre of thousands of Palestinians at Sabra and Shatila—Kathy Engel addressed an audience at the New...
Go for it
Guernicaby Sharni Wilson, Masami Kakinuma, and Atsushigraph·15 Jul 2026
Zashiki-warashi, a child spirit said to bring good fortune, roams a grandmother’s ancient home in rural Iwate.
Che Guevara: The Path to Marxist Revolutionary - 1951-1959 | History is Now
History in 28-minutesby History Is Now Magazine·14 Jul 2026
In 1951 Che Guevara was still known as Ernesto Guevara de la Serna. To his friends and family, he was a restless young man, still undecided about his life's direction, who constantly craved...
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