In the West Papuan regency of Merauke, close to the border with Papua New Guinea, Indonesia is rapidly clearing land ...

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As for the garden – yes, there can be golden flecks in it – there is a glow. And the shrubs and trees in her yard are in cone, globe and weeping shapes. Otherwise, it is undecorated.

is a wheel where they turn to tell him sorrow is gain. The way he sets his spine to the ironwork is a drag-line of grief: ...

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Graeber’s doctoral fieldwork among the Malagasy in the rural community of Betafo, Madagascar, conducted in the early 1990s under Marshall Sahlins’s supervision, was eventually published as Lost People ...

Donald Trump has alienated a good number of his MAGA supporters by seeking to suppress the full disclosure of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Are his supporters angry because they think he is guilty of ...

The main component of cigarette filters is a plastic, cellulose acetate, and trillions of butts are discarded into ...

D onald Trump ​ likes to tell us that ‘tariff’ is ‘the most beautiful word in the dictionary’. He does not remind us that the word comes from the Arabic ta’rif, or that such duties were first applied ...

Seas are repetitive creatures, working in cycles of tides, migration and climate change, which is normally to say ...