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The Missing

From advertisements taken out in African-American newspapers by former slaves searching for relatives. The earliest ads appeared in 1863. Villanova University and Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, in Philadelphia,…

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Safety in Numbers

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The mathematics of predicting war

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Queer Theory

From a CIA memorandum entitled “Homosexual Investigations” that was written in 1980 for the purpose of investigating colleagues. The document was published in March by Muckrock. Read More

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American Duce

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Is Donald Trump a fascist or a plutocrat?

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Jane Does

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From conversations between Madeleine Schwartz, a journalist, and members of the Abortion Counseling Service of Women’s Liberation, later known as Jane, an underground railroad for reproductive care that was started…

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Tyranny of the Minority

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Think of our democracy as a house we built in 1776, big enough only for Christian, property-owning white men. Over the next two centuries, various groups struggled to make it…

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The Emigrants

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From a letter written in 1905 by Friedrich Trump, Donald Trump’s grandfather, to Luitpold, prince regent of Bavaria. Trump had been ordered to leave Bavaria for failing to complete mandatory…

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Black Like Who?

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How Obama negotiated America’s racial tightrope

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The Lords of Lambeau

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On family, fate, and Packers football

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The Lords of Lambeau

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On family, fate, and Packers football

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A Peculiar Virtue

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Only once have we elected a really ignorant man to the Presidency. Andrew Jackson was almost completely innocent of book-learning when he came to the White House. Furthermore, he was…

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