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Hands holding vials of chemicals.

The Empire’s Amnesia

When it comes to imperialism, Latin America never forgets, and the United States never remembers.

by Greg Grandin, Jacobin via Jacobin on May 19, 2017

Our Mis-Leading Indicators

How statistical data came to rule public policy.

by Stephen Macekura via Public Books on September 15, 2014

Confederate soldier with wife and baby.

Fighting for Home

How the idea of “home” motivated Confederate soldiers, and strengthened their resolve to fight.

via BackStory on March 31, 2011

Six-panel illustration of debtors' prisons.

I.O.U.

What replaced imprisonment for debt was something that has become a mainstay of American life: bankruptcy.

by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on April 6, 2009

Penny Dreadful

They’re horrid and useless. Why do pennies persist?

by David Dale Owen via The New Yorker on March 24, 2008

When Big Oil Was "The Great Vampire Squid" Wrapped Around America

Robert Engler's award-winning 1955 investigation into the oil industry.

by Robert Engler via The New Republic on August 29, 1955

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