From looted artifacts to rogue employees, a series of crises have beset some of the world’s most visited collections.

To Jared Kushner, Israel’s war on Gaza presents a real estate opportunity... so long as the Palestinians are moved first.

A new history cuts against stereotypes, to show a region constantly changing—and whose future is up for grabs.

Gurnah’s haunting novels of war and oppression, which won him the Nobel Prize in literature last year, defy the dominant trends in American publishing.

A new bill in the House would let Puerto Ricans choose between statehood, independence, or free association, but the island’s status will remain in limbo unless Congress faces a ticking clock.

Hernan Cortes, Captain Cook, and Prince Philip were each worshiped as deities—with very different consequences.

The documentarian returns with an urgent argument about imperial violence—and what it means for America now.

Ho Chi Minh, Mao Zedong, and Mahatma Gandhi appear in this history of revolutionary struggles. But the main characters are lesser-known figures.

The essays in “Bland Fanatics” trace today’s crises to a long history of violent colonial oppression.

Her newly reissued masterpiece “The Transit of Venus” gestures at vast and intricate political problems.

Amid the pandemic, a recent documentary about Native American food culture asks audiences to reexamine the origins of this strange holiday.

The follow-up to the bestselling “Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell” is a fraction of its length but has far more heft.

Once the slurs and caricatures are gone, we’re left to reconcile the erasure, tokenization, and colonization that exist beyond them.

Confronting the ugly legacy of military prostitution in South Korea

The attempted erasure of Indigenous people and the land they steward continues with Trump's latest proposal.

Suketu Mehta’s new book reckons with the colonialism and exploitation that have uprooted so many people.

A new memoir by the legendary kung fu star reveals what it took to become one of Hong Kong’s greatest sons.

William Kentridge’s new performance piece uses various media to tell the story of the unsung conscripts of World War One.

The venerable museum has "given back" some stolen Iraqi antiquities, but that does not mean it's ready to atone for its colonial-era sins.

How neoliberalism shapes the global economy and limits the power of democracies.