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A shocking story about the biggest company in the US's most profitable industry.

The Lakota, like other groups, see themselves as a sovereign people. Can Indigenous sovereignty survive colonisation?

The latest struggle to define America's founding charter will define the country for generations to come.

The world’s largest monument is decades in the making and more than a little controversial.

Why the Jim Crow-era debate between the African-American leader and a ridiculous, Nazi-loving racist isn’t as famous as Lincoln-Douglas.

The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms.

My family is a success story. We’re also evidence of the long odds African Americans face on the path to success.

The Bush administration thought an elective war would make America safer. Then Katrina hit.

The black men who formed America’s original paramedic corps wanted to make history and save lives—starting with their own.

Lead contamination in New Orleans and beyond.

Southern newspapers played a major role in racial violence. Do they owe their communities an apology?

The rise and fall of the defense contractor who bought off Navy brass with meals, liquor, women and bribes.

Popularized images of female hula dancers have deviated far from their origins and perpetuated stereotypes.

In the 1970s, Ronald Reagan villainized a Chicago woman for bilking the government. Her other sins were far worse.

How evangelicals became an anxious minority seeking political protection from a not traditionally religious president.

Behind the scenes, corporate lobbying laid the groundwork for the Justice Department’s aggressive pursuit of so-called eco-terrorists.

In 1966, a group of Boston-area parents and administrators created a busing program called METCO to help desegregate schools.

For the first time, we are living in a truly post-cold-war political environment in the United States.

In the 1980s, vice-president George H.W. Bush was secretly the most important decision-maker in America's intelligence world.

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

Why relatives of the musician depicted in "Green Book" called the film “a symphony of lies.”

The strange tale of the socialites who shaped modern marriage on the American frontier.

A hundred years at the edge of empire.

On a presidential paper trail.

More than 150 years after Appomattox, Americans are still fighting over the great issues at the heart of the conflict.

With “The Apprentice,” the TV producer mythologized Trump as the ultimate titan, paving his way to the Presidency.

Mustard now comes in dozens of varieties. Why has ketchup stayed the same?

Every law student knows John Brady’s name. But few know the story of the bumbling murder that ended in a landmark legal ruling.

How the world we live in already happened in 1992.

The untold story of how anger became the dominant emotion in our politics and personal lives—and what we can do about it.

For years, Chicago cops tortured false confessions out of hundreds of black men. Years later, the survivors fought for reparations.

Because both thinkers neglect political economy, they end up promoting a politics that is responsible for the nation's growing inequality.

The uncanny realism of Orson Welles’s radio play crystallised a fear of communication technology that haunts us today.

George Soros after the open society.

In 1916, Randolph Bourne challenged widespread nativism by calling for a reconsideration of the “melting-pot” theory.

We remember WWI as an unexpected catastrophe. But for the millions living under imperialist rule, terror and degradation were nothing new.

The promise and perils of left populism.

Asking difficult questions often comes at a cost.

Traveling to the heart of Mexico for a Ceremonia del Perdón.

War, famine and persecution inflict profound changes on bodies and brains. Could these changes persist over generations?

In 2001, two men were killed by the FBI at a farm in Michigan. Then, 9/11 happened.

Remember Perot?

An in-depth history of the most important pop innovation of the last 20 years, from Cher’s “Believe” to Kanye West to Migos.

Where's the country music on Pitchfork's Best Albums of the 1980s?

Millions of American children were placed in orphanages. Some didn’t make it out alive.

In St. Augustine lie the ruins of Fort Mose, built in 1738 as the first free black settlement in what would become the United States.

The mighty but divided soul of C.L. Franklin.

A seismic reading of the financial earthquake and its aftershocks, including those that still jolt us today.

Fifty years later, new accounts of its fraught passage reveal the era's real hero—and it isn’t the Supreme Court.

"None of us really understands what's going on with all these numbers."