Ian Urbina is the director of the journalism nonprofit the Outlaw Ocean Project. While at the Times, he shared a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news.
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What the Origins of Humanity Can and Can’t Tell Us
There’s still much to be learned about our prehistory. But we can’t help using it to explain the societies we have or to justify the ones we want.
By Maya Jasanoff
Letter from the U.K.
The British Museum’s Blockbuster Scandals
While facing renewed accusations of cultural theft, the institution announced that it had been the victim of actual theft—from someone on the inside.
By Rebecca Mead
Daily Comment
The Surprising Rise of Latin American Evangelical Missionaries
A new book looks at a clandestine movement to proselytize in Muslim countries.
By Graciela Mochkofsky
The Weekend Essay
Is This Israel’s Forever War?
Foreign-policy analysts whose careers were shaped by the war on terror see troubling parallels.
By Keith Gessen