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The term "fake news" dates back to the end of the 19th century.

Eight decades after the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist fire, corporate profits are still being valued more than workers' lives.

John Locke took part in administering the slave-owning colonies. Does that make him, and liberalism itself, hypocritical?

How profit motives have driven two centuries of American gun laws.

Building on vulnerable coastlines isn't about ignorance or hubris — it's about profit.

The mass defection of CEOs of some of the nation’s most powerful corporations from President Trump’s now-defunct Manufacturing Jobs Initiative.

How much did slave owners pay for antebellum-era policies from Aetna, AIG, and New York Life?

Pinball hasn’t always been an all-American game of fun: for decades it was an object of widespread moral outrage.

Interpreting dreams for fun and profit. The importance of oneiromancy (dream reading) to American betting culture.

American Indians and the tumult in their cultures precipitated by the arrival of alcohol.

Perhaps, in ethical terms, it doesn’t matter whether overhunting was or was not the cause of the passenger pigeon’s extinction. Practically speaking, it matters a good deal.

Slaveholding plantations of the 19th century used scientific management techniques—and some applied them more extensively than factories.

Unwinding the mortgage giants won't cure Americans of their desire to own a home, whether they can afford it or not.

The field of political consulting was unknown before Leone Baxter and Clem Whitaker founded Campaigns, Inc., in 1933.

Ford Motor Company claims its Cologne plant was confiscated by Nazis, but newly discovered documents and correspondence prove otherwise.

The history of the L.A. Times.