Education

There is a common narrative that our attention is a precious resource. But that narrative is incomplete.

The Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) report 2023-24 has revealed a startling reality: nearly 13000 schools across India have zero enrollments.

A new study sheds light on tattoo designs found on more than 100 mummies from Chancay culture, a group that lived on the Peruvian coast between roughly 900 and 1500 C.E.

Hello, hello, Dear Readers! It’s just about the middle of January, and what a start to the year it has already been, a year already defined, it seems, by its inability to be pinned down, by i…

Power in society is tightly linked with the racialized ownership of land, and the privileges that ownership confers, writes Michael Albertus.

In a recent episode of “Silo,” the sci-fi series from Apple TV+, a character who does not have long to live puts on a virtual-reality headset. She’s spent her entire life in a subterranean shelter, which descends more than a mile into the earth like an upside-down skyscraper.

At present, describing historians as political actors evokes bias, political manoeuvring and a lack of critical thinking.

Spurred on by a New York Post story about Pope Francis opening "five sacred portals" this Christmas, the goofier corners of the social media world are breathlessly sharing warnings that the Pope is planning to open the "Tomb of Lucifer," or the Devil's Tomb this holiday season.

Around the beginning of each year, I customarily write a column about how we’ve just had the “best year ever” in the long history of humanity. This annual eruption of exuberance outrages some readers who see it as disrespectful of all the tragedies around us.

Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 election was an extreme failure for the United States as both a nation and a country. He has open contempt for democracy and the Constitution.