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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.

Search a 4,000-word database to see how language in the magazine evolved over time.

What the capitalization of "Black" will mean for students and their teachers.

From the 1918 Spanish flu to Covid-19, broken treaties have been the foundation of health crises among Native people.

When medicine and journalism defeated cholera.

ONE is a vital archive, but its focus on citizenship and “rational acceptance” ultimately blocked it from being the safe home for all that it claimed to be.

In the 1940s, scholars struggled over truth in reporting, the marketplace of ideas, and the free press. Their deliberations are more relevant than ever.

There are always three violences. The first is the violence itself.

Revisiting John Hersey's groundbreaking "Hiroshima."

Immediately after 9/11, humorists struggled with what many called ‘the death of irony.’ Then ‘The Onion’ returned and showed everyone the way

A new book persuasively argues that the Federalists’ attempt to squash opposition and the free flow of ideas was even more nefarious than we thought.

Education campaigns for HIV/AIDS hold lessons for COVID-19.

Israel Putnam? William Prescott? British officers? Was the phrase even uttered at the Battle of Bunker Hill at all?

Six decades ago, Gordon Parks, Life magazine’s first black photographer, revolutionized what a crime photo could look like.

Ideologues of left and right have learned to stop worrying and love rhetorical violence.

The agency's earliest ad campaigns emphasized youthful idealism, patriotism and travel opportunities.