Murder, suicide, spontaneous combustion, sleepwalking, ventriloquism: these are some of the sensational events in the novels of Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810). As the United States’ first ...

On Tuesday night, three Mamdani-backed candidates snagged big victories in congressional primaries. Now, they're being called ...

The Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act and effectively diminished the voting power and representation of Black ...

Luca Guadagnino, Gregg Araki, Gus Van Sant, Kimberly Peirce, and Jamie Babbit reflect on how queer representation has grown ...

The New York primary election will decide whether democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani was a fluke or a foghorn alerting ...

Last week, I stood at the foot of Mount Rushmore. Like millions of Americans before me, I looked up at the granite faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln ...

Pianist Lara Downes and Pulitzer-winning author Salamishah Tillet discuss Nina Simone and one of her best-known songs at her ...

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's voice was piped directly into American living rooms during the 1930s and '40s. The NBC microphone he used is on display at the Smithsonian.

A federal judge ruled Saturday that Kari Lake, President Donald Trump's choice to lead the U.S. Agency for Global Media, did not have legal authority to take the actions she's done to largely ...

Earlier this month, the Democratic Socialists of America’s top leadership met for an in-person meeting of their National Political Committee (NPC), the DSA’s governing authority. The result of the ...

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