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It Turns Out There's Not a Lot of Science Linking Testosterone to Violence

It Turns Out There's Not a Lot of Science Linking Testosterone to Violence

When Bad Studies Become Pro-War Political Tools

By Rebecca M. Jordan-Young and Katrina Karkaz | November 12, 2019

Spanking, Signing, Reading: <br> On the Medieval Use of Hands

Spanking, Signing, Reading:
On the Medieval Use of Hands

When Aristotle Called Touch the Sense Necessary For Life, Was He Wrong?

By Jack Hartnell | November 12, 2019

Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Possibility of Roe v. Wade Being Overturned

Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Possibility of Roe v. Wade Being Overturned

Jeffrey Rosen Speaks with RBG on Abortion Rights and More

By Jeffrey Rosen | November 11, 2019

The Case Against an American King, Then and Now

The Case Against an American King, Then and Now

Liesl Schillinger Considers the Impeachment of Donald Trump vs. the Indictment of George III

By Liesl Schillinger | November 8, 2019

Reading Beyond the Wall: 7 Acclaimed Books About and From East Germany

Reading Beyond the Wall: 7 Acclaimed Books About and From East Germany

On the 30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

By Olivia Giovetti | November 8, 2019

Toppled: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall

Toppled: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall

Paul Vidich on the Timeline of a Historic Night

By Paul Vidich | November 8, 2019

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How Lou Sullivan's Journals Enrich the History of Trans Literature

By Callum Angus | November 8, 2019

On Harriet Tubman's Final Escape Mission

By Erica Armstrong Dunbar | November 8, 2019

Inside the Early Struggles of the Women Who Built Disney

By Nathalia Holt | November 8, 2019

The Reporter Who Went Undercover at an Asylum

The Reporter Who Went Undercover at an Asylum

Nellie Bly Committed Herself to the Infamous Blackwell Island Asylum Just to Get the Story

By Susannah Cahalan | November 7, 2019

On Frank Lloyd Wright, Ernest Hemingway, and the Art of Omission

On Frank Lloyd Wright, Ernest Hemingway, and the Art of Omission

What Does the “Iceberg Theory” Look Like Applied to Architecture?

By Paul Hendrickson | November 6, 2019

What Comes Before Woke? On the History of Sleep as a Form of Protest

What Comes Before Woke? On the History of Sleep as a Form of Protest

From Vietnam Die-Ins to Occupied Parks, Stillness as Dissent

By Franny Nudelman | November 6, 2019

The Gay Activists Who Fought the American Psychiatric Establishment

The Gay Activists Who Fought the American Psychiatric Establishment

Mo Rocca on the Struggle to Depathologize Homosexuality

By Mo Rocca | November 6, 2019

The Terrifying Power of a Single Book

The Terrifying Power of a Single Book

Brendan Simms on Hitler's Stay in Prison, and the Scapegoating of Modernity

By Brendan Simms | November 5, 2019

Lindy West on Breaking the Silence Around Abortion

Lindy West on Breaking the Silence Around Abortion

“When reproductive freedom becomes a class privilege, the human rights of our political body are negated.”

By Lindy West | November 5, 2019

How Did a Single Desk in the Senate Become a Focal Point for American Progressivism?

How Did a Single Desk in the Senate Become a Focal Point for American Progressivism?

Sherrod Brown on the Unlikely History of Desk 88

By Sherrod Brown | November 5, 2019

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