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Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S. Army personnel in the European theater of World War II. March 24, 1945, the topic for the week was “FASCISM!

Anti-Matter Helium Detected . . . Dark Matter lurking about?

Since the end of the Civil War, the United States has found ways to disenfranchise Black voters. It started with literacy tests and poll taxes and threats of racist violence. Now, it’s through voter suppression laws and mass incarceration. 

False claims of “migrant crime” echo the Ku Klux Klan’s fear mongering.

Not everyone rides out storms like Milton or Helene by choice. Some simply cannot afford to flee.

How the younger brother of the famous general set out to destroy the scourge of monopoly power.

The principle cause of today’s crisis of homelessness and housing affordability has one, single, primary cause: billionaires treating housing as an investment commodity.

Poet Terry Adams relates how a sensitive child might learn about the intricate relationship between bullets and death.

Researchers are rethinking what they know. Across the animal kingdom, models have vastly underestimated the energy females invest in reproduction. A lack of women in the field might have led researchers to pay less attention to the costs.

Tennis star Billie Jean King challenged America to create more opportunities for women and LGBTQ people. Her advocacy for women’s sports in the 1960s and 1970s revolutionized school, amateur, and professional athletics.