Month: December 2024

In the early months of 2023, the astronomer Željko Ivezić found himself taking part in a highly unusual negotiation. Ivezić...

Toward the end of his second campaign for president, Donald Trump promised a weary nation one thing: “Merry Christmas” is...

Listen and subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket CastsThis episode, from our fifth season, called How...

The Roosevelt Republic—the progressive age that extended social welfare and equal rights to a widening circle of Americans—endured from the...

When President Joe Biden was running for a second term as president, he repeatedly ruled out granting a pardon to...

Harry Gruyaert / Magnum Photos My friends all think their apartments used to be brothels. I don’t think any of...

The recorder used to be an instrument people wanted to hear. As a 1946 article in The Atlantic explained, it...

For more than four decades before Donald Trump assumed the presidency, the FBI director was a job above politics. A...

The concept of the food desert has been around long enough that it feels almost like a fact of nature....

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