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Journalist Adam Cohen has said if you want to learn about an institution, you look at where it’s gone wrong. For Cohen, Buck v Bell is a moment when the…

You may have said this before … a lot of us do … “I’m completely OCD.” Though doubling back to make sure you locked the doors and turned off the coffee…

How much can a photograph tell us about our past? Historian Martha Sandweiss says images like the one of the railroads meeting at Promontory Summit “can…

It sounds like science fiction, but a cyberattack on America's power grid could be launched from a single laptop anywhere in the world. The results would…

History is full of moments when humans as a group react to difficult events. Now that we are a month into the coronavirus quarantine, we’re taking stock…

If each of us lives to be 80, we’ll have spent about four thousand weeks being alive on this planet — which isn’t really much time at all. So, how should…

On August, 1, 1966, a lone gunman opened fire from the top floor of a tower at the University of Texas at Austin. It was America’s first mass school…

If each of us lives to be 80, we’ll have spent about four thousand weeks being alive on this planet — which isn’t really much time at all. So, how should…

In the world of Facebook, you've got immediate access to a large circle of people - from your best friend in third grade to your sister-in-law's mother.…

Steven Rinella says his book has a lot going for it, simply because it tells one of the oldest human stories. Rinella is a writer and a television host,…