Most of the arguments for preserving our insane system are morally odious, unsubstantiated, and/or factually incorrect.

A woman is suing the university over 169-year old photos of people she says are her ancestors.

Fifteen years after the U.S. invasion, there’s no satisfying answer to the question: What were we doing in Iraq anyway?

Ignoring the moral imperative of repairing slavery's wounds because it might be “divisive” reinforces a myth of white innocence.

George W. Bush committed an international crime that killed hundreds of thousands of people.

Exploring John Cleves Symmes Jr.’s obsession with a hollow Earth.

The Cold War says more about how U.S. elites imagined their “freedom” than it does about enabling other people to be free.

Giant mirrors, ocean whitening, and other suggestions from the company's in-house engineers in 1997.

It’s not the 1990s anymore. People want the government to help solve big problems. Here’s how the Democrats must respond.

Synthetics created in the 20th century have become an evolutionary force, altering human biology and the web of life.