Misinformation is a global problem, but our understanding of it is anything but global. Over 80% of...
By lowering barriers to access and multiplying texts beyond institutional control, print redistributed intellectual power outward. By...
Even when information is factually accurate, how it’s presented can introduce subtle biases. As large language models...
Seen from the present, Shaw and Marven stand not as relics of an immature republic but as...
Whistleblowers’ stories show how accountability is shifting from formal legal institutions to solidarity networks built outside the...
Across more than two centuries of American history, efforts to criminalize or punish ideological dissent have followed...
A former official from Trump’s first term said the FBI will be able to throw the full...
To place Indigenous peoples at the center of Venezuelan history is not an act of inclusion for...
Two U.S. wars based on lies, in which tens of thousands of American troops and millions of...
Petroleum endowed the state with extraordinary fiscal power, geopolitical relevance, and the capacity to modernize at a...
Lawmakers from both major parties have also called out the administration’s drug claims and argued against launching...
The abuses suffered by the working class during America’s Gilded Age were the logical outcome of an...
The Trump administration’s actions are shrinking jobs, slowing wage growth, and raising living costs for the working...
The survival strategies developed during the Great Depression reveal a society forced to reconstruct daily life under...
Manufacturing revisions, federal workforce cuts, tariff-driven pressures, and private-sector layoffs have converged to weaken employment stability across...
Understanding Sparta as dystopian does not require denying its achievements or ignoring its historical context. It requires...
When citizens come to accept a constant state of crisis as normal, democratic erosion no longer feels...
The Church’s persecution of dissent, extraction of wealth, control of knowledge, and insulation of clerical privilege were...
Frank Capra’s dark vision of corruption and greed highlights both the dangers of concentrated power and the...
The ancient world demonstrates with particular clarity that political authority was never exercised in abstraction from material...
Whether artificial intelligence can remain politically neutral is now a matter of active debate among researchers and...
What distinguishes the early modern period is not the emergence of disagreement itself but the stabilization of...
Chatbots have a greater sway on policy issues than video ads, and that spouting the most information,...
The transformation of “snake oil” into a term of ridicule belongs not to the medieval period but...
“Failure to conduct an oversight hearing on Secretary Kennedy’s actions would be an abdication of our responsibility—both...
Bleach occupies a liminal space between reassurance and risk, embodying the promises and anxieties of modern chemical...
Various online guides, some aimed at parents of autistic children, recommend a shot-glass-size dose, sometimes given multiple...
The experience of the barracks emperors demonstrates the point at which military authority overwhelmed the fiscal mechanisms...
Countless families are being forced into impossible tradeoffs every day as a result of Trump’s disastrous policies...
Trade barriers did not initiate collapse, but they hardened it, extending suffering and delaying recovery across continents....