Ebo Taylor has died at 90. He was a world-renowned musician and composer of African highlife music, but it took decades for him to come to the U.S.

Borrowing from jazz and African rhythms, he forged a singular style that helped define music in his native Ghana — and West ...

A new working paper from Nobel laureate James A. Robinson finds a vast landscape of 45,000 polities—deliberately fragmented to protect local autonomy ...

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Add to those inarguably arresting sequences is the unique camera work. In the entire film, the camera neither tilts nor pans.

U.S. women's national team great Crystal Dunn has surprisingly announced her retirement from soccer at age 33. Dunn made the announcement with a post on her Instagram account, saying she wanted to ...

Growing sideways rather than head-on – that is the credo of Atlantic Financial Group (AFG Holding), the financial arm of Atlantic Group. While Bernard Koné Dossongui’s conglomerate has made notable ...

The Atlantic’s largest recorded male great white shark has returned to Florida waters just one year after being tagged. After traveling as far north as the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the 14-foot, ...

Welcome back to Atlantic Trivia! Are you hungry for more? I hope that while I’ve been away, you have been enjoying plenty of food for thought—literally. Research shows that berries help improve memory ...

IN what remains of a cemetery, at what used to be the edge of Bujumbura, the living displace the dead. Burundi’s largest city is growing so fast that people have built homes where once there were ...

The Minoan culture was the first highly complex society on modern European soil, with palaces, writing, stunning art – and even flushing toilets. The Minoans lived in the bronze age (circa 3000-1200BC ...