In Wakka Wakka's award-winning puppet musical "Dead as a Dodo" — at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre this week — the humans might wear sequins, but they’re not the main characters.

Explore Jim Henson's puppets and Muppets in the Smithsonian's collections along with related collection items. Learn their backstories, their missions, and the inspiration for each of them. Listen to ...

A grassroots revolution in Iran sounds attractive, but it is far too risky. The likely outcome of dismantling the Islamic Republic is not stable democracy, but state fracture, political chaos, and ...