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Cannabis sativa plant.

Reefer Madness in Mexico City

Historian Isaac Campos traces the origins of the idea that marijuana causes violent madness…and finds the trail leads south, to Mexico.

via BackStory on May 20, 2016

Missouri State Hospital No. 3.

The Incredible Story of 'Drawings from Inside State Hospital No. 3'

In 1970, a hand-bound portfolio of nearly 300 drawings is found in a dumpster. It would take 41 years to identify the artist who drew them.

by Gabrielle Bruney via Vice on May 13, 2016

Eastern State Penitentiary, c. 1876.

A Brief History of Solitary Confinement

Dickens, Tocqueville, and the U.N. all agree about this American invention: It’s torture.

by Jean Casella, James Ridgeway via Longreads on February 2, 2016

Executing 'Idiots'

Would the Founders have protected people we execute now?

by Michael Clemente via The Marshall Project on July 27, 2015

A bearded man dressed as a lumberjack with an axe resting on his shoulder.

Lumbersexuality and Its Discontents

One hundred years ago, a crisis in urban masculinity created the lumberjack aesthetic. Now it's making a comeback.

by Willa Brown via The Atlantic on December 10, 2014

Family photo.

Where Do Children’s Earliest Memories Go?

Our first three years are usually a blur and we don’t remember much before age seven. What are we hiding from ourselves?

by Kristin Ohlson via Aeon on July 30, 2014

Cover of "Empire of Necessity" featuring a painting of violence being wrought on enslaved men.

The Bleached Bones of the Dead

What the modern world owes slavery. (It’s more than back wages).

by Greg Grandin via Tom Dispatch on February 23, 2014

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