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"We are not our grandparents. It’s time to start thinking differently," journalist Annie Jacobsen told Big Think.
Modern autocracies operate "not like a bloc but rather like an agglomeration of companies," says journalist and historian Anne Applebaum.
The Sovereign State of the Bektashi Order would be just one quarter the size of Vatican City.
Australia's AAPowerLink boasts three global superlatives: largest solar farm, largest battery, and longest power cable.
Absence makes the heart (and public opinion) grow fonder.
19 rooms. 1,636 square feet. 1,800 years of history.
Hypersonic aircraft can fly at least five times the speed of sound. They would make for terrifying weapons.
Because of their large and unfriendly neighbor to the east, the Baltics would rather be Scandinavian.
A radical proposal reimagines Europe as a carbon-neutral continent where national boundaries are replaced by regions defined by renewable energy capabilities.
Plagues, war, and genocide were literally frozen in time.
The Antarctic Treaty of 1959 prohibited nations from making new land claims on the continent. But it never mentioned claims from private individuals.
No shots fired. No flags raised. And no dry land gained. Still, the U.S. effectively grew by the size of about two Californias in December.
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The United States is the biggest risk in 2024. Here are the other 9, explained by Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media.
When battles raged in ancient cities, their rocks blazed so brightly that they could be reoriented according to Earth's magnetic field.
Many countries' histories are governed by the familiar demographic story of growth, industrialization, and decline. But not France.
This minimalist map unties Asia’s mountainous geography, centered on the “Pamir Knot.”
The Pan-American Highway began a century ago with a vision of unfettered motor-vehicle access between Alaska and Tierra del Fuego. What happened to the dream?
The Persian Constitutional Revolution made unlikely allies and enemies of missionaries, ayatollahs, the shah, and his Russian ambassadors. Its legacy shaped modern-day Iran.
Australian soldiers fighting the Japanese recruited native New Guineans to their campaign.
Seventy-five years after the anomaly's discovery, scientists have finally figured out why sea levels are so much lower here.
Still, the author's main argument wasn't totally discredited.
McDermitt Caldera, the site of an ancient volcanic eruption, straddles the border of Oregon and Nevada.
The region of Catalonia has been at odds with greater Spain for over 300 years. The prospect of autonomy remains a distant and fading dream.
When you turn a map of East Asia upside down, Beijing’s geographic constraints and regional ambitions become much clearer.
Meet the world's largest landowners.
For linguists, the uniqueness of the Basque language represents an unsolved mystery. For its native speakers, long oppressed, it is a source of pride.
In a time when we dislike and distrust our politicians, why can't we get more popular leaders like Kim Jong Un and Bashar al-Assad?
Cyberattacks are growing in number and sophistication.