Fifty years ago, scientists discovered a nearly complete fossilized skull and hundreds of pieces of bone of a 3.2-million-year-old female specimen of the genus Australopithecus afarensis, often described as “the mother of us all.” During a celebration following her discovery, she was named “Lucy,” after the Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.”

Though Lucy has solved some evolutionary riddles, her appearance remains an ancestral secret.

Popular renderings dress her in thick, reddish-br

Combating the silence around Hamas’ sexual violence on and following Oct. 7, an Israeli feminist and the commission she founded are working to seek justice and address and prevent future war crimes.

On the morning of Oct. 7, 2023, as Cochav Elkayam-Levy sat by her father’s hospital bed in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv, Hamas combatants breached the southern Israeli border, killed some 1,200 people and took about 240 hostages. Women, children and the elderly were not spared.

Two days later, Elkayam-

Dr. Mia Bloom’s recent article in The Conversation, “Rape by Russian soldiers in Ukraine is the latest example of a despicable wartime crime that spans the globe,” discusses rape as a key feature and strategic logic of Russia’s war on the Ukraine. After reading it, I was compelled to reach out to Bloom for an interview.

Bloom is a professor of communication and Middle East studies at Georgia State University and an international security fellow at New America, a liberal think tank. She is a mem

The use of terms like “truthiness,” “post-truth,” and “post-factual” has risen during the 2016 election season, especially in media coverage of Donald Trump, who has become the poster boy for what David Roberts earlier coined “post-truth politics.” Trump himself (or , depending on who you believe to be more truthful) has described his own rhetorical strategy as “truthful hyperbole,” an innocent and effective form of exaggeration. In the recent presidential debate between Clinton and Trump, Clint

Recently, a group of guerilla street artists going by the name INDECLINE publicly shamed Donald Trump with nude, life-sized statues, which appeared in major cities around the U.S., including in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Cleveland, and New York. The statues depicted a smug, veiny, and bloated Trump, imperiously crossing his hands over a lumpy, protruding gut. Aptly titled, “The Emperor Has No Balls,” the statue depicts Trump castrated, yet endowed with a tiny, shriveled penis. Tourists

A few weeks ago, several statues of a naked Donald Trump turned up in cities across the United States. Fat, orange, waxy, and a bit cartoonish looking, like the Republican nominee himself, the statues were part of a political art installation entitled "The Emperor Has No Balls." The statue, suitably, depicted a naked Trump without testicles and with a tiny, shriveled penis. The group responsible for the installation, INDECLINE, told the Huffington Post: "We decided to depict Trump without his ba

Thousands of headlines in multiple languages touting some kind of formulation of “100 Naked Women Protest the RNC” circled the globe around the start of the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland. On the eve of the convention on Sunday, July 17th, 130 of the 1,800 women who volunteered to participate in the art installation “Everything She Says Means Everything,” joined together to bare it all on a private lawn across from the convention site. The “women art warriors,” as they were cal