Society
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Wellbeing
Born in China, Zee seeks a gender-affirming life in the American Midwest
11 minutes
essay
Home
Return of the descendants
I migrated to my ancestral homeland in a search for identity. It proved to be a humbling experience in (un)belonging
Jessica Buchleitner
essay
Anthropology
Societies of perpetual movement
Why do hunter-gatherers refuse to be sedentary? New answers are emerging from the depths of the Congolese rainforest
Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias
essay
Global history
One ship, many stories
How a single, unglamorous, workaday merchant vessel tells the history of the 19th-century world in many violent chapters
Boyd Cothran & Adrian Shubert
essay
Stories and literature
Citizens
Devon, 1970s: I’m a rector’s son, hanging out with Boz the biker. My life is about to open up – what does it promise for him?
Tim Pears
video
Demography and migration
One story, in a sea of millions, of swimming from China to freedom in Hong Kong
14 minutes
essay
Demography and migration
Asians in early America
Asian sailors came to the west coast of America in 1587. Within a century they were settled in colonies from Mexico to Peru
Diego Javier Luis
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Economic history
Matrimony and the market
The sexual revolution promised new norms of intimacy based on egalitarianism. So far, only the rich have cashed in
Daniel Tutt
essay
Archaeology
Finding the First Americans
Archaeology and genetics can’t yet agree on when humans first arrived in the Americas. That’s good science and here’s why
Jennifer Raff
video
Demography and migration
How the world’s harshest lockdown hit India’s millions of migrant workers
27 minutes
essay
Cities
Living closer together
Urban density was once seen as a sign of unhealthiness and poverty. But today it is necessary to make cities sustainable
Max Holleran
essay
Demography and migration
The ungreat replacement
Workers in the West have indeed been repressed – but not by immigrants. The policies of their own governments are to blame
John Rapley
video
Demography and migration
In 1980, two feuding professors bet on the fate of humanity. Who won?
5 minutes
video
Demography and migration
Tension, bureaucracy and deep humanity define life aboard a refugee rescue ship
27 minutes
essay
Political philosophy
How important is white fear?
It’s become a commonplace that demographic anxiety is driving white voters to the far Right. This is dangerously wrong
Mark R Reiff
video
Family life
The walls come down on guarded emotions and secrets in an intimate family portrait
16 minutes
video
Personality
Meet the British bouncer in LA on an expired visa who has no time for immigrants
10 minutes
essay
Anthropology
Safety is fatal
Humans need closeness and belonging but any society that closes its gates is doomed to atrophy. How do we stay open?
David Napier
video
Demography and migration
The hopes and fears of the migrants selling souvenirs in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower
15 minutes
essay
Demography and migration
Exiles on Main Street
To respect exiles as real and important political actors, we should get over casting them as saints, threats or victims
Ashwini Vasanthakumar
essay
Human rights and justice
Gulf slave society
The glittering city-states of the Persian Gulf fit the classicist Moses Finley’s criteria of genuine slave societies
Bernard Freamon
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Cities
How the Barbican brought back living into the working heart of London
22 minutes
video
Nature and landscape
Prairies, bison and nuclear warheads – a 2002 postcard from North Dakota
23 minutes
essay
Love and friendship
Is marriage over?
Marriage is practised in every society yet is in steep decline globally. Is this it for longterm intimate relationships?
Manvir Singh