The past several decades have been turbulent ones for the world system: the financial crisis, the rise of new middle powers ...

The strikes carried out by both sides in the war have stretched across a vast area of more than four million square miles, as ...

After years of deep-sea sleuthing, National Geographic Explorer Katy Croff Bell has created a treasure map. It’s not drawn on ...

Vlad Mazanko is Ukraine-based gaming enthusiast, writing about the industry since 2013 and covering everything from games and studios to movies and TV shows. He joined the Valnet family back in 2021, ...

From President Trump’s bid to acquire Greenland to Beijing’s claims over the South China Sea, cartographer William Rankin tells Mike Higgins how maps sometimes don’t help geopolitical decision-making.

Join scholar and artist Denise Ferreira da Silva (New York University) for a screening of Ancestral Clouds Ancestral Claims (2023), an award-winning film by Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman.

The Trump administration has shut down the CIA World Factbook, and there's much lamenting about the demise of a free source ...

The State Department has continued to update its travel advisories as the conflict with Iran and adversarial relationships with other nations continue to play out across the world. Americans traveling ...

When I checked my 10-year-old daughter’s TikTok messages in early February 2026, I expected to find the usual mix of dance ...

Disruptions to the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz over the past four weeks will unleash a “sequential” shock to global supplies that’ll run from east to west, with much of the world taking a ...

This is no country for old men.” Three years later, in 1965, Medicare was created. A major expansion of Social Security ...