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Standardized forensic exams are a useful tool for sexual-violence investigations—or they would be if police departments consistently tested their findings.

The attack on it is a violation of the nation’s post–Civil War rebirth.

Amazon will never be neighbourly.

The left case for an independent Canada.

The Mexican origins of the birth control pill, and the trade dispute with the U.S. it generated.

A swamp with a busy road going right through the middle, Washington’s airport was called “a disgrace.”

Efforts to target immigrants amid the 1992 L.A. Uprising point to what deportations might look like under Trump 2.0.

Defending academic freedom doesn’t mean exaggerating the threats to it.

How an erroneous 18th-century story about the “Caucasian race” led to a centuries of prejudice and misapprehension.

The region has unique political traditions tailor-made for the momentum gathering behind economic populism in the Democratic Party.

We have yet to solve the problems that Carter confronted head-on as president.

While modern women poets have found inspiration, collard references appeared in racist limericks during Jim Crow.

A narrative not of brain drain but of Black aspiration.

Nine Inch Nails, the Manson Family, and the contradictions of Los Angeles.

For more than a century, conservation policy has focused on economic development and wisely using natural resources.

Comparing Trump to Hitler and Mussolini obscures the basis of his mass appeal.

The Ordinance, which prioritized cars on the city’s roadways, quickly became the template for the country.

And a walk downtown in search of her saloon, the Bucket of Blood.

President Woodrow Wilson presided over the segregation of government workers, putting Black people behind screens and in cages in 1913.

The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army, though, it was a shot at freedom.

Abortion exceptions in legal history.

Or, a brief history of today's erasure of history.

President Donald Trump says McKinley made the United States prosperous through tariffs. Historians say that’s an incomplete understanding of the 25th president.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s nomination to lead HHS reflects the rising power of an anti-vaccination movement more than 100 years in the making.

On Pierrepoint B. Noyes, H.G. Wells, and the “Superweapons” of early science-fiction.

NYC history suggests that the Left might profitably revive proportional representation as a tool to build its electoral strength.

Gender-segregated bathrooms tell a story about who is and who is not welcome in public life.

The true cost of the immigration policy can be measured in the generations of Chinese Americans who were never born.

The president who built his fan base on isolationism is pivoting to a kind of imperialism that the U.S. hasn’t seen in decades.

Why is America’s near-mythic dynasty so nasty up close?

New York City’s renewed efforts to tackle homelessness and untreated mental illness is raising questions about civil liberties, safety and effective care.

Supreme Court rulings on gun laws highlight the struggle to balance individual rights and public safety.

He’ll run into the same roadblocks as Presidents Taft, Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush, among others.

What the President’s confrontations with Panama, Greenland, Canada, and Colombia suggest about his expansionist vision.

It wouldn’t take much, the fan explained, just some radioactive material inside the players, who would then undergo a physical examination.

It made itself bigger.

A new book traces the rise of the Israel lobby and the challenges it has faced as global criticism of Israel has intensified.

While hosting a conference featuring his defense of "Southern Slavery," Douglas Wilson exposes the radicalism of his growing "Christian" empire.

Culture warriors envision a future in which the educational power of universities will be harnessed to the propagation of a “biblical worldview” nationwide.

Frances Perkins’ challenged the United States’ restrictive immigration policies as FDR’s Secretary of Labor.

What we should learn from Senator Abraham Ribicoff’s failed attempt.

Forty years ago, the Senate supported school busing—until a 32-year-old changed his mind.

In memory of Martin Luther King Jr, a look back on his funeral.

From the pianoforte to the smartphone, each wave of tech has sparked fears of brain rot. But the problem isn’t our ability to focus—it’s what we’re focusing on.

Depictions of Antietam couldn’t possible capture the magnitude of the battle’s horror.

We need to bring back the celebratory atmosphere that animated Election Day in the 19th century.

The Catholic order has branches all over the world, and a deep history of unethical and illegal behavior.

A new book questions what we think we know about heterosexuality and Latter-day Saints, or Mormons.

Publishing needs his democratic spirit.

We categorized songs in the Billboard Top 10 to see if love songs are on the decline.