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From "insurrection" to "rebellion" to "Civil War," finding a name for the conflict was always political.

The definitive story of Wikipedia on its 20th anniversary.

It forced a conversation about the dangers of misinformation, one we need to have again today.

What began as a protest, rally, and march ended as something altogether different—a day of anarchy that challenges the terminology of history.

The 1960s and 70s were a time of activism in the U.S., and therefore a fertile time for campus newspapers and the alternative press.

The case for a Federal Writers' Project 2.0.

Today we are telling the story of a powerful local business that has done wrong.

The penny press of the nineteenth century was a revolution in newspapers—and is a salutary reminder of lost ties between reporters and readers.

A dispatch from Wounded Knee that layers the realities of poverty, climate change, and resilience on the history of colonization, settlement, and genocide.

The media myth that demonized a generation of Black youth.

The history of tuning in to televised election returns.

How a simple message came to be used nearly word-for-word in elections large and small for more than 200 years.

Explaining Joe Biden’s fondness for quoting Irish poets.

Tracing the twisting path of a resistance slogan, from the Nazis to the hippies to Trump.

How a Black activist watchword got co-opted in the culture war.

Are White House doctors keeping the public adequately informed about President Trump’s battle with COVID-19?

There has been some famous presidential campaign moments in the past 50 years. However, not everyone knows or remembers these moments.

Although major U.S. newspapers hosted thousands of opinion pieces on Israel-Palestine over 50 years, hardly any were actually written by Palestinians.

In the 1940s, journalists fled traditional news outlets to write directly for subscribers. What happened next may be a warning.

A new book about the Lindbergh baby kidnapping focuses on the role played by the media.

For as long as women have battled for equitable political representation in America, those battles have been defined by images.

"Hispanic" as the name of an ethnicity is contested today. But the category arose from a political need for unity.

A look at voter rights through political cartoons.

From plague times to the coronavirus, the history of our flawed ability to process mass casualty events.

A former Navy lawyer speaks about his decision to leak classified information on detainees at the infamous prison of Guantanamo.

A look at how the word, a surprisingly recent addition to the English lexicon, made its way into the dictionary.

A review of "You Talkin’ to Me? The Unruly History of New York English."

The story of James Rivington, the publisher who got on the wrong side of the Sons of Liberty.

It’s not obsolete, and it’s not a business.

Here’s how we came to label the coded language.