Video & Audio

Anna Webber argues that jazz’s composer–performers thus occupy a unique and privileged position: they may create the ideal vessels for their own improvisation, composing shapes that most perfectly incorporate their priorities and desires as performers.

Nandini Pandey says that Rome recognized the pragmatic political and economic benefits of including and advancing constituent people regardless of race.

Nathalie Peutz is a cultural anthropologist who has conducted wide-ranging, ethnographic research in Yemen, Djibouti, and Somaliland.

Alec MacGillis takes on one of the forces he says is driving a waxing social divergence in America: Amazon.

Tony Cokes discusses the text-animated artworks he’s been creating over the past decade.

Philippe Schmitters explicates the most distinctive aspect of contemporary European integration: its commitment and practice of peaceful, negotiated transformation.

Allison Blakely observes that while recent decades have witnessed visible achievements by individual black Europeans, the black population as a whole continues to experience a sense of invisibility.

Sean Scully argues that current environmental and public-health crises are related to our increasing disconnection from the physical and man-made world.

Robert B. Zoellick discusses his latest book, "America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy."

Lawrence Douglas takes a closer look at the US electoral system and its vulnerabilities.