In India’s contemporary socio-political landscape, everyday spaces have become sites of symbolic contestation. This includes grand temple rituals, city name changes, language debates, politicized food ...

On Jan. 3, hours after the U.S. captured Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro in Caracas, a photograph circulated showing ...

The signature of an American president is one of the planet’s most powerful symbols. It can set your tax bill, your immigration status and who does or does not get aid from the world’s largest economy ...

The symbols tied to the Democratic and Republican parties have actually been around for more than 100 years Election season is here, and along with all those annoying commercials for the various ...

Depiction of a relief from Khorsabad, the Assyrian capital during the time of Sargon II. For roughly two centuries, from ca. 900 -- 700 BC, the Near Eastern empires of Neo-Assyria and Urartu ...

Among his other ongoing projects, US President Donald Trump has spent much of his second term on a renovation. The Oval ...

A monument to the late Hugo Chavez adorns a traffic circle in Managua (all photographs courtesy the author unless otherwise noted) After Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega lost his re-election bid in ...

A newly opened politics-themed bar in Washington, D.C., was forced to remove a GOP political symbol from its building after facing community backlash. The bar, called "Political Pattie's," reportedly ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is the highest-ranked political newcomer to the Forbes list of the World’s Most Powerful Women, one of a few breakthroughs amid a year otherwise marked by sudden ...