Global strategies are shaping the way museums, collectors and locals preserve history.

The 5,500 artifacts from modern-day Iraq were intentionally mislabeled as clay tiles and smuggled, traveling thousands of miles to the U.S. There, they landed with their waiting recipients — the arts and crafts chain Hobby Lobby, and its owners, the Green family, who hoped to spotlight the ancient valuables in their pet project, the Museum of the Bible.

Rampant looting from war-torn Iraq was nothing new, but international condemnation of Hobby Lobby’s move was. Since then, the firm has agreed to a fine of $3 million, and there's been a striking uptick in collaborative efforts internationally to seize dealers of antiquities and return smuggled pieces to where they belong.

Heezy Yang and his colleagues are fighting against an aggressive Christian resistance.

Heezy Yang, 28, is on a mission to advocate LGBTQ issues and rights through artistic activism. A quaint conceit? Hardly. In South Korea, being gay can still get you thrown in prison.

While conservative Christian detractors in South Korea see homosexuality as a threat, Yang sees it as an opportunity to express himself through art and raise awareness about a community that is so often ostracized and voiceless. After dropping out of university in 2013, Yang dedicated himself to art projects, illustrations, photography and performances — all focusing on LGBTQ issues and sexual minorities. He’s also the founder of the LGBTQIA+ And Allies in Korea group and Seoul Drag Parade.

Cody Wilson doesn’t just want guns for all. He wants a revolution.

He’s a free market–loving, gun-toting, self-described crypto-anarchist who uses free speech as a shield for funding hate groups, and he wants to publish blueprints that allow all Americans to create lethal weapons from the unsupervised shadows of their own bedrooms — legally. Which is to say, Cody Wilson is the villain America’s fragile political equilibrium doesn’t need right now, but perhaps precisely the one it deserves.