Why White people don't use White emoji: Does shame explain the disparity in the lesser use of light-skin-tone symbols in the US?
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The overlooked history of African American skate culture
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How the US has hidden its empire: The United States likes to think of itself as a republic, but it holds territories all over the world – the map you always see doesn’t tell the whole story.
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Conservative Christian group launches campaign against “Buddhist meditation” in public schools
32 votes -
The fatal ensnaring of Dan DePew
7 votes -
Seeking Utopia in Louisiana - The lost story of a group of socialists who built an extraordinary, but flawed, colony
9 votes -
Death and valor on a warship doomed by its own Navy - An investigation into the crash of the USS Fitzgerald
6 votes -
Black mecca or most unequal US city: Will the real Atlanta please stand up?
7 votes -
Noam Chomsky - The Right Turn (1986)
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In the 19th century, American theatres provided the stage for a war between high and low culture, the elite and ‘Know-Nothings’ – and Britain and the US. In 1849, events turned bloody.
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Children of Ted - Two decades after his last deadly act of ecoterrorism, the Unabomber has become an unlikely prophet to a new generation of acolytes
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Mystery blast sank the USS San Diego in 1918. New report reveals what happened.
8 votes -
Economic update: The great American purge
6 votes -
A brief history of US dirty wars in Central America that set the stage for the refugee crisis
4 votes -
Major for-profit college chain abruptly announces closure of dozens of schools
12 votes -
The Confederacy was built on slavery. How can so many southern whites still believe otherwise?
20 votes -
What should America do with its empty church buildings?
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What is Federal land?
15 votes -
American exorcism
4 votes -
Jonestown’s victims have a lesson to teach us, so I listened
10 votes -
A toy monkey that escaped Nazi Germany and reunited a family
6 votes -
Who’s behind that beard? Historians are using facial recognition software to identify people in Civil War photographs
8 votes -
Why are we still teaching reading the wrong way?
9 votes -
Humanists going all the way: AHA to defend church-state separation at the US Supreme Court
11 votes -
At 63, I threw away my prized portrait of Robert E. Lee
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American Nazis in the 1930s—The German American Bund
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Anti-semitisim comes to a city of tolerance
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Pittsburgh synagogue shooting leaves at least four dead, official says
34 votes -
Why are Americans still uncomfortable with atheism?
18 votes -
The pyramid scheme that collapsed a nation
6 votes -
The suffocation of American democracy
8 votes -
Catholic Church has lost more members than any other religion in the US
15 votes -
Why is Canadian English unique?
19 votes -
“I now know what it’s like to have A 110-story building come down on my head.”
9 votes -
Don't talk to the police
28 votes -
What's next after Liberal Democracy
5 votes -
1600s Native American fort is one of the most important Northeast finds
4 votes -
The other political correctness: America's elite universities are censoring themselves on China
11 votes -
Hunter S. Thompson in Chicago, 1968: The battle for the Democratic Party’s soul
12 votes -
Victoria Woodhull: The first American woman to run for President — 150 years ago
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A growing share of Americans say it’s not necessary to believe in God to be moral
37 votes -
How did Americans lose their British accents
24 votes -
After a year of rising tensions, protesters tear down Confederate statue on UNC campus
27 votes -
The city born in a day: The origin story of Oklahoma City
5 votes -
The Iroquois confederacy
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Why America’s ‘nones’ don’t identify with a religion
6 votes -
The first Japanese man in America: A teenager shipwrecked on a Pacific atoll helped transform relations between Japan and the United States
5 votes -
What is the future of English in the US?
8 votes -
3D printable guns as free speech?
14 votes -
A sociologist examines the “white fragility” that prevents white Americans from confronting racism
23 votes