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Tatlin’s Tower, One of the Most Ambitious Buildings That Was Never Built

It’s no small project to found a new society, especially when you’re doing it on the scale of a place like Russia. Apart from the considerable pra...

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In Venezuela’s Rubble, a Search for the Family Pets

Volunteers are reuniting pets with families, offering Venezuelans comfort amid loss and devastation.

A Modest Proposal for the Strait Dispute: A Shared Pact Among Gulf States

A London-based research group has invoked a now-defunct European pact on coal and steel to suggest forming a coalition of countries that would share c...

The U.S. Braced For the World Cup. It Fell in Love Instead.

Amid anxiety over how the United States would welcome the world, cities like Lawrence, Kan., and Boston threw open their doors. The bonds forged are s...

Watch the First Spectacular Film Adaptation of the Odyssey (1911)

Public and commercial spaces around the world are now lined with imagery of a vertebra-studded battle helmet and statues surrounded by flame. It’s a...

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Houthis in Yemen Edge Closer to Entering U.S.-Iran War

The Iran-backed Houthi militia in Yemen has declared a Red Sea blockade on Saudi Arabia, potentially opening up a new front in the war rippling across...

Inside the Deadly U.S. Airstrike on a Shadow Fleet Tanker

Evidence suggests the ship on which three Indian sailors died was not moving when it was struck in the Gulf of Oman, but it had been engaged in risky ...