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The United States imprisons more people than any other country in the world, and a disproportionate number of those pris... Read more

In the mid-1980's a woman who didn't consider herself a feminist was asked to solve perhaps the biggest problem women fa... Read more

The banana is a staple of the American diet and has been for generations. But how did this exotic tropical fruit become ... Read more

With the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the president is hoping to fill the seat with a more ideologically conservative j... Read more

What is it, why do we have it, and why hasn't it changed? Born from a rushed, fraught, imperfect process, the origins a... Read more

The white nationalist ideas of Madison Grant influenced Congress in the 1920s, leaders in Nazi Germany, and members of t... Read more

Over the past six months, demonstrations in Hong Kong have increasingly become more violent and more determined. What st... Read more

The United States imprisons more people than any other country in the world, and a disproportionate number of those pris... Read more

Conspiracy theories are a feature of today's news and politics. But they've really been a part of American life since it... Read more

Today, the border that divides Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland is "soft", in most places you could almost f... Read more

China is a world superpower today. But just over a century ago, the country was in complete turmoil — foreign powers had... Read more

The story of how the Endangered Species Act went from unanimous passage under a Republican president to becoming a deepl... Read more

It has been nearly twenty years since 9/11 and during that time much of the media coverage and government attention has ... Read more

50 years ago the world watched as man first landed on the moon, an incredible accomplishment by the engineers and scient... Read more

Black Americans being victimized and killed by the police is an epidemic. A truth many Americans are acknowledging since... Read more

President Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un are preparing to meet for a second nuclear summit. What has fueled t... Read more

Billie Holiday helped shape American popular music with her voice and unique style. But, her legacy extends way beyond m... Read more

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic it's tempting to draw comparisons to the most severe pandemic in recent history... Read more

When a mob of pro-Trump supporters violently stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, they also incited a defining moment ... Read more

Since the beginning of the pandemic, conspiracy theories about the coronavirus have exploded. But conspiracy theories th... Read more