Today, we celebrate the towering life and legacy of Benjamin Franklin—printer and philosopher, inventor and diplomat, public servant and patriot, and one ...

Before Martin Luther King Jr. was killed, he asked several of his friends to continue his life’s work building what he called ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

The polycrisis is not a number of separate crises converging and overwhelming us as individuals, but an implacable crisis of human consciousness itself. The earth is blaring at us that human history ...