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This story was published in partnership with the Trace. In 1991, Alex Kotlowitz published his first book, There Are No…
For much of America’s history, the country was literally expanding. There was always a frontier to conquer, always new land…
Will Hunt has completed an impressive number of trips below the Earth’s surface. He’s done some of the more obvious,…
More than three weeks into what has become the longest federal government shutdown in US history, nearly 800,000 employees have…
On Sunday, the world turned its eyes to Tijuana, Mexico, where clashes between US Border Patrol and Central American migrants…
On July 28, 1976, “Handsome Johnny” Rosselli, a mobster who rose up through the ranks with Al Capone, had brunch…
We are living in dark times for American workers. As Erik Loomis explains in his recently-released A History of America…
Ike Barinholtz came up with the idea for his movie The Oath, which he wrote, directed, and stars in, after…
When Senate Republicans (plus West Virginia Democrat Joe Machin) confirmed Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court over the weekend, it…
One Christmas when he was still a small child, Bobby Bogle’s father, Rooster, gave him a heavy metal wrench wrapped…