The birth of cheap communication (and junk mail)
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Goodbye, show world: The last days of Times Square’s peep shows
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Cry for Notre-Dame, sure, but why not for treasures beyond the West?
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How Southern Baptists Are Grappling With Artificial Intelligence
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They had it coming - The parents indicted in the college-admissions scandal were responding to a changing America, with rage at being robbed of what they believed was rightfully theirs
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M-16: A bureaucratic horror story
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Nazis have always been trolls
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Stepping into the uncanny, unsettling world of Shen Yun
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The imitation game: Some of the most beloved objects in Washington museums are not as authentic as visitors might assume
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United Methodist Church votes to maintain its opposition to same-sex marriage, gay clergy
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The Metropolitan Museum will return prized gilded coffin after learning it was stolen
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Pope makes unprecedented move of defrocking ex-cardinal McCarrick over sex abuse
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Melbourne Archbishop enlists LGBTI faithful as church tries to reset
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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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Emoji don't mean what they used to - The pictorial language has moved away from ideography and toward illustration
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The philosopher redefining equality
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Meet the guardian of grammar who wants to help you be a better writer
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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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Kindertransport children to get 2,500 euros in compensation from German government
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A sea story
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The Confederacy was built on slavery. How can so many southern whites still believe otherwise?
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How millennials are breathing fresh life into the ancient Irish language
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What should America do with its empty church buildings?
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Do you have a moral duty to leave Facebook?
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Return of African artifacts sets a tricky precedent for Europe’s museums
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American exorcism
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Who’s behind that beard? Historians are using facial recognition software to identify people in Civil War photographs
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Why are we still teaching reading the wrong way?
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One hundred years on, the scars from World War I linger on Australia's streets and in our psyche.
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Pope vs. pope: How Francis and Benedict’s simmering conflict could split the Catholic Church
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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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'There are no rules': The unforeseen consequences of sex robots
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William J. Murtagh, ‘pied piper’ of American historic preservation, dies at 95
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The myth of whiteness in classical sculpture
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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
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Why are Americans still uncomfortable with atheism?
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How mail-order catalogues subverted the racial hierarchy of Jim Crow
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Code hidden in Stone Age art may be the root of human writing
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A map of every building in the United States
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As Harvard’s admissions policy goes on trial, alleged victims of racial bias remain anonymous
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Tulsa, Oklahoma mayor reopens investigation into possible mass graves from 1921 race massacre
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The epic rise and fall of the name Heather
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Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963)
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HMB Endeavour found: One of the greatest maritime mysteries of all time solved
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Australia's Catholic priests are pushing for optional celibacy, married priests, with a plan to take the issues to the Vatican
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Dealing with an out-of-control president, in 1973
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The day, twenty-five years ago, that Israeli-Palestinian peace seemed within reach
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Why Tibetan Buddhism is facing up to its own abuse scandal
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