As AI changes the way the world gathers information, some critics say that it is perpetuating stereotypes and erasing ...

FROM the sandy wastes of North Africa to the lush rain forests of Southeast Asia, the winds of anti-colonialism blow with gale force, and wherever they blow, there is resentment and suspicion of the U ...

Colonialism's legacy still casts a shadow over the way paleontologists conduct their research and learn about the world. Some researchers are trying to expose and reform that pattern. Paleontologists ...

University of Cambridge research associate Harriet Mercer on how colonialism has fuelled global warming and made many communities more vulnerable to its effects Colonialism, the report asserts, has ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

“We alone can use properly our own resources; and no work in art or literature ever has been, or ever will be, of any real or lasting value which is not true, original, and independent.” Nothing is ...

Government rejects offshore rubbish being shipped to Fiji and burned after opposition from traditional landowners and tourism operators ...

Image: Tar sands, Alberta. Credit: Dru Oja Jay/Flickr, CC 2.0. The consequences of colonialism and imperialism, in all their forms and across all their epochs, defy our imagination. Unspeakable ...

Ideas of Africans as inferior, backwards and barbaric can be traced back to those justifying slavery in the 18th century. And the stereotypes still cast a shadow over the continent There is a view ...

The standard version of colonialism, explains Adam Kirsch in his provocative and important new book, involves a relatively small group of colonists—mostly colonial administrators, merchants, and ...