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Racist judges get schooled (in 1963). School integration? No way (1958). A very deadly parade (1918). Prisoners of conscience (1943). Broadway says 'no' to racism (1933). No way to run a website (2013). Abolitionists unite! (1833)

International team of researchers has uncovered the incredible genetic diversity hidden within the ancient remains of those who once called Machu Picchu home.

Alabama authorized nitrogen hypoxia in 2018 amid a shortage of lethal injection drugs, but the state has not attempted to use it until now to carry out a death sentence.

The state’s water crisis hasn’t fully abated, but nobody’s talking about it on the campaign trail.

Here’s what launched the militant union leader toward a historic strike.

The most mysterious aspect of quantum mechanics is the wave function. What does it have to do with probability and statistics? Let's find out.

It’s important the left challenges language intended to suppress serious discussion of the war and its causes. You can counter an accusation of spreading disinformation or propaganda with evidence that what you are saying is true.

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board has moved the hands of its Doomsday Clock forward, at “90 seconds to midnight—the closest to global catastrophe it has ever been.”

Companies get away with bad behavior when we accept their excuses that there’s just no other way to run a business.

The Biden administration is getting bad data and bad advice — but there’s a way out.