‘We put in air conditionin’, stayed year-round, and ruined America’
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Study shows US public defenders have significantly more clients than they can adequately represent
27 votes -
How disappearance became a global weapon of psychological control, fifty years on from Chile’s US-backed coup
21 votes -
Boatlift - The spontaneous evacuation of lower Manhatten on 9 11 2001 - narrated by Tom Hanks
7 votes -
A miracle in Missouri? The nun who put her abbey on the map
7 votes -
Hit in DNA database exonerates man forty-seven years after wrongful rape conviction
30 votes -
A wrong turn in fog off the California coast led to the largest peacetime disaster in American naval history
8 votes -
American Stories: A large-scale structured text dataset of historical US newspapers
16 votes -
War against the children
13 votes -
Searching for Maura
9 votes -
Record $100 million settlement reached in lawsuits alleging torture, rape, atarvation at US Christian school
34 votes -
Why Silicon Valley is here. One radio engineer had a plan. And it worked.
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Chuuk Lagoon's skull problem
5 votes -
North American bison slaughter left lasting impact on Indigenous peoples
31 votes -
How the richest country in the world has allowed its poor to remain poor
34 votes -
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 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
18 votes -
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
3 votes -
The insane engineering of the M1 Abrams
8 votes -
The world's greatest fighter jet: The F-15 Eagle
1 vote -
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
13 votes -
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 Carter and 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