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December 2021

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To most Americans, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is the subject of an intense policy controversy. To the Gwich’in people, it’s home

Photographs by Peter Mather

Beneath a desert in Israel, archaeologists are unearthing astonishing new evidence of an advanced society in the time of the biblical Solomon

Photographs by Yadid Levy

In dogged pursuit of an exotic world record, an engineer heads to the desert to shoot an arrow farther than anyone ever

Photographs by Erin Trieb

Rich, powerful and eccentric, Roquefort is still the king of cheeses. But for how much longer?

From the Castle

One of Smithsonian’s most storied buildings is reopening with an eye toward humanity’s many potential futures

Your feedback on Memphis libraries, traveling to Mars, King George III and more

Prologue

Two hundred years after her birth, the famously intrepid Clara Barton’s pioneering commitment to public health has only become more crucial

Prologue

Raw and affecting portraits of rural life in the early 20th century were strikingly modern

Prologue

Today’s video hoaxes can be downright ugly. But image-makers have been fooling viewers from the beginning

Prologue

A jazz legend’s final recording

Prologue

When the spirited Jackie Cochran piloted this jet, she broke all kinds of barriers

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