Yesterday Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, oversaw the imprisonment of Istanbul’s mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu. In jailing his political rival, Erdoğan has joined a global club of authoritarian leaders unwilling to tolerate challengers of any kind.
The sci-fi film Things to Come debuted just before World War II. It was all too prophetic in its portrait of a society destroyed and then rebuilt by advanced technology.
How Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s mournful portrait of Rome shaped the Enlightenment’s understanding of progress.
How two socialist science-fiction bestsellers invited nineteenth-century readers into a grand debate about progress.
A brief catalog of genre-changing moments in music history.
The billionaire is fueling a global panic about the fate of white South Africans and misrepresenting the real problems that plague his home country.
Niger has the opportunity to nationalize the uranium industry. Will it?
As Azerbaijan reclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh, its Armenian population faced a devastating choice: flee or risk death.
The people of Greenland don’t want to be subjects of Denmark or the United States — they want economic independence and freedom from foreign control.
Two decades of unprecedented infrastructure investments transformed China. Then the country hit a wall of debt.
The US president ran as an antiwar candidate. Now he wants to use American muscle to ethnically cleanse the Gaza Strip.
