How the richest country in the world has allowed its poor to remain poor
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Israeli proposal to move early Christian mosaic to US Museum of the Bible sparks controversy
17 votes -
SS Baychimo: The unsinkable Arctic ghost ship
7 votes -
The psychedelic drug that conquered Europe
11 votes -
Hunting for the Lizard People: On the dangerous conspiracy theories that led to the Nashville bombing
10 votes -
What were those mysterious craft? (1979)
7 votes -
The US John F. Kennedy Assassination: Inside the book depository
11 votes -
"Abraham Lincoln" street in Nogales, Sonora
15 votes -
Why Oppenheimer deserves his own movie
14 votes -
Strongly influenced by Quakers 175 years ago, the Seneca Falls Convention kicked off the fight for women’s suffrage in the USA
15 votes -
The status quo coalition
7 votes -
United States of America
7 votes -
Some historians say that the last US Revolutionary War battle was fought in India
14 votes -
A July Fourth collection of essays related to the US Independence Day
7 votes -
The most famous NYT crossword: 1996 presidential election day
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How a megachurch wields power in a regional California city and influence in the music industry
7 votes -
The campaign in the desert of North Africa in 1940-1943 mapped
7 votes -
Well before the first climbing frame was patented as "jungle gym", mathematician Charles Hinton thought they might be able to teach kids four-dimensional thinking
15 votes -
The troubling history of tipping in American restaurants
15 votes -
90th birthday interview, with transcript, of Daniel Ellsberg: recently deceased leaker and whistleblower re the Vietnam War
8 votes -
Oppenheimer: Vacated but not vindicated
4 votes -
Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland filed for bankruptcy in wake of hundreds of sex abuse lawsuits
8 votes -
True threats and American cultural gulfs
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The insane engineering of the M1 Abrams
8 votes -
The world's greatest fighter jet: The F-15 Eagle
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Black conservatism isn’t what you think
7 votes -
The long road to #StoptheShock
5 votes -
In the oppression olympics, don’t go for the gold
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Globetrotting Black nutritionist Flemmie P. Kittrell revolutionized early childhood education and illuminated ‘hidden hunger’
2 votes -
Hail to the Chief: One great article about every US President
2 votes -
The shape of Vodou in diaspora
2 votes -
US pilot shot down four Soviet MiGs in thirty minutes – and kept it a secret for fifty years
8 votes -
Much of what you've heard about Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan is wrong
11 votes -
Sold a Story: How teaching kids to read went so wrong
12 votes -
How Gloria Steinem lent Wonder Woman a helping hand
5 votes -
Finnish astronomers acquitted in defamation case related to protesting harassment – astrophysicist Christian Ott argued protests cost him postdoc position
5 votes -
Eleven magic words
5 votes -
Did Vikings find their way to a remote part of Oklahoma? Some in a small community believe so, thanks to controversial runic carvings found in the area.
13 votes -
Minneapolis church still holds services in Norwegian – congregation was founded in 1922 at the tail end of a decades-long migration of Norwegians to Minnesota
6 votes -
Saul Kripke, philosopher who found truths in semantics, dies at 81
5 votes -
The biggest mapping mistake of all time
7 votes -
What happened to flying wings?
7 votes -
A geyser that shoots sparkling mineral water
7 votes -
The tiny US island with a British accent
11 votes -
40% of Americans believe in creationism
33 votes -
Nationalism is underrated by intellectuals
14 votes -
A working flight simulator, no computers necessary
4 votes -
The history of (American) Sign Language
4 votes -
US Supreme Court rules for former coach in public school prayer case
12 votes -
Mike the headless chicken
9 votes