A Q&A with author Russell Shorto on the early colonial history of New Amsterdam in the lead-up to a confrontation with the ...

Nigeria received 119 Benin Bronzes from the Netherlands on Tuesday (June 17), marking one of the largest restitutions of ...

THE second report of the Colonial Primary Products Committee*, dated January 1949, consists mainly of a series of commodity studies, to which is appended a note by the Imperial Institute on ...

By Toby Sterling THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Prime Minister Mark Rutte is due to deliver a speech on Monday in which he is expected to apologise for the Netherlands’ historical role in slavery and ...

In June 2025, rumors abounded that Isra Hirsi, daughter of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, had posted "death to the colonial empire" from Los Angeles to Rafah in Gaza on an ...

JAKARTA: US$31 trillion - that’s the amount of wealth that Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto claimed the Netherlands had extracted from Indonesia during its colonial rule over the ...

Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the ...

The transfer of power from the Dutch to the English was more like a strategic merger, historian Russell Shorto contends.

Was the Genoese navigator who claimed the Americas for Spain secretly Jewish, from a Spanish family fleeing the Inquisition?

Through Minke, Pramoedya will go on being heard, will go on giving life to those who care about genuine human connection and ...

The new book Empire of AI by longtime technology reporter Karen Hao unveils the accruing political and economic power of AI companies — especially Sam Altman’s OpenAI. Her reporting uncovered ...