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How Obsessively Reading About The Royal Family Got Me Through a Breakdown

How Obsessively Reading About The Royal Family Got Me Through a Breakdown

For Robert Leleux Finding the One Family More Messed Up Than His Own Was a Life-Saver

By Robert Leleux | April 22, 2022

When Superpowers Lose Their Power, the Chaos of War Follows

When Superpowers Lose Their Power, the Chaos of War Follows

Andrew Keen is Pretty Sure No One’s in Charge

By Andrew Keen | April 22, 2022

Twenty Questions on the War in Ukraine

Twenty Questions on the War in Ukraine

This Week on Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon

By Open Source | April 22, 2022

The Erased Lives of Enslaved Women Forced to Have the Children of Their Enslavers

The Erased Lives of Enslaved Women Forced to Have the Children of Their Enslavers

Kristen Green on Mary Lumpkin, Sally Hemings, and Many More Whose Names We Don’t Know

By Kristen Green | April 22, 2022

Did Thomas Edison “Disappear” His Most Significant Rival in Inventing the Kinetograph?

Did Thomas Edison “Disappear” His Most Significant Rival in Inventing the Kinetograph?

Paul Fischer’s on a Dark Corner of Motion Picture Lore

By Paul Fischer | April 22, 2022

In the Room Where German Tycoons Agreed to Fund Hitler’s Rise To Power

In the Room Where German Tycoons Agreed to Fund Hitler’s Rise To Power

David de Jong on Hermann Göring’s Meeting with Some of Nazi Germany's Wealthiest Businessmen

By David de Jong | April 22, 2022

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Arundhati Roy on Religious Nationalism, Dissent, and the Battle Between Myth and History

By Arundhati Roy | April 21, 2022

How the Transcendentalists Shaped American Art, Philosophy and Spirituality

By Dominic Green | April 21, 2022

Why This Era of Global Change Demands New Language

By Audrey Schulman | April 21, 2022

On the Absolute Pleasure of British Historical Reality TV Shows

On the Absolute Pleasure of British Historical Reality TV Shows

Colleen Hubbard Couldn’t Have Written Her Novel Without the BBC’s Historic Farm Series

By Colleen Hubbard | April 21, 2022

Imagining the Lives of the Aviators Who Inspired William Faulkner

Imagining the Lives of the Aviators Who Inspired William Faulkner

Taylor Brown on Looking to the Past (Which Isn't Even Past)

By Taylor Brown | April 21, 2022

On Fictionalizing the Long-Suppressed and Complicated Histories of Holland and Indonesia

On Fictionalizing the Long-Suppressed and Complicated Histories of Holland and Indonesia

Anne Lazurko Explores Colonialism, Revolution, and Family

By Anne Lazurko | April 21, 2022

On Königsberg, Fortress City and Outpost of Russian Power

On Königsberg, Fortress City and Outpost of Russian Power

From the We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast

By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | April 21, 2022

How Airline Stewardesses Fought Their Industry’s Toxic Patriarchal Norms

How Airline Stewardesses Fought Their Industry’s Toxic Patriarchal Norms

Nell McShane Wulfhart on Feminist Rebellion in the Unfriendly Skies

By Nell McShane Wulfhart | April 20, 2022

Reckoning with the History of Medical Racism: A Reading List

Reckoning with the History of Medical Racism: A Reading List

Dolen Perkins-Valdez Recommends Books That Spotlight the Colonization and Control of Black Bodies

By Dolen Perkins-Valdez | April 20, 2022

The Chairman Had No Rhythm: What It Meant to Dance with Mao Zedong

The Chairman Had No Rhythm: What It Meant to Dance with Mao Zedong

Vanessa Hua Follows Echoes of History Around the Dance Floor

By Vanessa Hua | April 20, 2022

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