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Polls show that more Americans today define socialism as an ideology of “equality” than one espousing government control of the economy.
The artifact will be opened on Sunday, for the first time in millennia, at an undisclosed location in Egypt.
Can 6,500 mercenaries “fix” Afghanistan? The U.S. is resurrecting privatized warfare.
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Biographies, treatises and stories on the occult and its strange cast of characters.
Modern notions about the Illuminati are the result of a satirical cult-classic book.
Archeologists had been doubtful since no such ship had ever been found.
The distance between the American dream and reality is expressed best through literature.
Scientists discovered microbes that have lived on Earth for millions of years.
Over 100 new pages of Einstein’s writings, including long-lost calculations, have been made public.
The American Museum of Natural History presents the new, more accurate T. rex.
The hard part was keeping the list down to ten.
Did a poorly understood ancient civilization somersault over charging bulls?
Our culture has its own mistaken assumption: that the individual is an autonomous human intellect independent from the social environment.
Few realize that the US was once “ruled” by a beloved monarch from San Francisco.
The story of that one time a U.S. city was run by a Soviet, and what it was like to live in it.
A new study of thousands links right-wing authoritarian attitudes and feeling one’s life is more meaningful.
For the Japanese in World War II, surrender was unthinkable. So unthinkable that many soldiers continued to fight even after the island nation eventually did surrender.
Who were the most divisive Americans?
Unions between Muslims and non-Muslims played a huge part in the expansion of Islam.
Why do people buy into stories that are clearly lies? Hannah Arendt can help us understand.
Through calculated use of gossip, women, non-citizens, or slaves wielded a potent weapon against those who wronged them.
The world’s next superpower might just resurrect the Middle Ages.
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Former NYTimes executive editor Jill Abramson dissects the big problem with internet news.
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The same 32 symbols show up in prehistoric European cave art.
Russia’s famed intelligence agency was often successful in getting American secrets.
Millennials, engage! It’s the reason you keep losing to baby boomers.
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