When the USS John S. McCain crashed in the Pacific, the Navy blamed the destroyer’s crew for the loss of ten sailors. The truth is the Navy’s flawed technology set the McCain up for disaster
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How the Republican party went from Abraham Lincoln to Donald Trump
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How releasing 1,500,000 balloons went horribly wrong
8 votes -
Raise the Dead - A six part series on the (US) 1960 election and its stunning parallels to 2016
8 votes -
The Real Class War
18 votes -
A dialect dissection of Britney Spears
8 votes -
Why selection bias is the most powerful force in education
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The shoals of Ukraine - Where American illusions and great-power politics collide
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Why do Trump’s supporters stand by him, no matter what?
27 votes -
In US, decline of Christianity continues at rapid pace
18 votes -
The drowned lands of the Wallkill
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How did the US Navy win the Battle of Midway?
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The massacre that spawned the alt-right
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The first transatlantic telegraph cable was a bold, beautiful failure
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The 1619 Project by the New York Times
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The most gender-switched names in US history
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How skeletons of WWI ships came to rest in the Potomac
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What teaching ethics in Appalachia taught me about bridging America’s partisan divide
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The awkward questions about slavery from tourists in the US South
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Down to seven vets, Pearl Harbor survivors' group in California holds final meeting
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Why so many Americans are turning to Buddhism
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The Christian right is helping drive liberals away from religion
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How to keep teachers from leaving the profession
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When a newspaper started a town: The story of Lake Michigan Beach
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CGP Grey: The Race to Win Staten Island
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Jerry Falwell’s aides break their silence - Current and former Liberty University officials describe a culture of fear and self-dealing at the largest Christian college in the world
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How the MIT Media Lab concealed its relationship with Jeffrey Epstein
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Navajo code talkers: The last of the living WWII heroes share their stories
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Remembering the forgotten Chinese railroad workers
8 votes -
Trump has defected to the autocrats
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1968 Democratic National Convention Chicago police riots
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The metastasizing cancer of the Southern Strategy
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Inside Robert Ballard's search for Amelia Earhart’s airplane
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Lawyer argues that Humanists — who believe in good without a God — get short shrift in Nevada prisons
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Camp Century – Secret Cold War base shifts through Greenland ice
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China orders halt to history tests for students seeking credits for US university courses
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Many US prisons deny Muslim inmates halal food and proper prayer
13 votes -
What is the Satanic Temple, and how did a goat-headed statue end up at the Arkansas State Capitol?
6 votes -
When workers stopped Seattle
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Independence National Park is an embarrassing mess. Why doesn’t anyone care?
6 votes -
The Soviet superplane that rattled America
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A fundamentalist community forges a new identity: Hildale and Colorado City, born of fundamentalist LDS doctrine, are rebuilding themselves—but not without holding on to their core beliefs
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The case for reparations
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When white supremacists overthrew a government - The Wilmington insurrection of 1898
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Is it time for truth and reconciliation in the US?
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This land is whose land? Indian country and the shortcomings of settler protest.
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The rise of progressive occultism
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A Japanese American newspaper chronicles the ‘searing’ history of immigrant incarceration
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'Where was the Lord?': On Jefferson Davis' birthday, nine slave testimonies
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The disadvantages of an elite education: Our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers
16 votes