Today he is a high school football player. Soon he'll be a Buddhist lama in the Himalayas.
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A history of US cabinet appointments ...and why they matter
15 votes -
The radical optimism of David Graeber
14 votes -
The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide
29 votes -
Rebuilding The Village - The Radical Act of Depending on Each Other
16 votes -
How China is like the 19th century US
12 votes -
Navajo code talker who helped allies win Second World War dies aged 107
30 votes -
Why did Norway try to take Greenland from Denmark in 1931?
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Investigating the most extreme ancient village in the United States
9 votes -
Robert Caro on the art of biography
5 votes -
That collective feeling - The rise and fall of New York clubbing
7 votes -
Beyond the politics of nostalgia: What the fall of the steel industry can tell us about the future of America
16 votes -
AI and the American smile
35 votes -
Review: Fears of a Setting Sun, by Dennis C. Rasmussen
8 votes -
Declassified memo from US codebreaker sheds light on Ethel Rosenberg's Cold War spy case
17 votes -
9/11 attacks in realtime (dashboard) 7:46am-12:00pm
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How the rise of the camera launched a fight to protect Gilded Age Americans’ privacy
13 votes -
How the KKK scammed its members for cash
28 votes -
Inside Ziklag, the secret organization of wealthy Christians trying to sway the US election and change the country
22 votes -
The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
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Debunking the myth of Hollywood's "fake" transatlantic accent
35 votes -
An American bought a $4 vase. Turns out, it's a lost ancient Maya treasure.
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The Ten Commandments must be displayed in all public Louisiana classrooms under requirement signed into law
68 votes -
Evangelical pastor discusses the link between Barabbas and MAGA Christian nationalism
14 votes -
Reconstruction was sabotaged. But what if it hadn't been?
18 votes -
Questions about DEI standards
15 votes -
Divers find remains of Finnish WWII plane that was shot down by Moscow with a US diplomat aboard
18 votes -
When the CIA messes up
9 votes -
The bridges of New York City
6 votes -
RIP to the greatest CEO you've never heard of (2022)
18 votes -
How to build 300,000 airplanes in five years
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How residents in a rural Alabama county are confronting the lasting harm of segregation academies
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This American Civil War submarine vanished for 136 years
3 votes -
Why were Ancient Egyptians obsessed with cats?
11 votes -
The not-so-straight story of the US-Canadian border
7 votes -
MIT scraps diversity statements in faculty-hiring process
14 votes -
How (and why) the right stole Christianity
22 votes -
B-17 Flying Fortress | Units of History
6 votes -
Why Panama dollarized
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Remembering May 4 (Kent State massacre) - An interview with Devo's Jerry Casale
16 votes -
Sociology’s race problem: Urban ethnographers do more harm than good in speaking for Black communities. They see only suffering, not diversity or joy.
19 votes -
The Museum of Science and Industry abruptly closed for a day last week to allow it to move “military artifacts from archival storage”
26 votes -
Where will people commune in a godless America?
24 votes -
About General Grant’s memoirs
8 votes -
How the Berlin Wall worked
13 votes -
Rongelap Atoll: America’s nuclear mistake
8 votes -
Pittsburgh smokers more inclined to say jagoff than yinz
21 votes -
‘God has a new Africa’: undercover in a US-led anti-LGBT ‘hate movement’
17 votes -
The Space Shuttle misdirection (1991)
5 votes -
Borders book store | Bankrupt
9 votes