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A new book persuasively argues that the Federalists’ attempt to squash opposition and the free flow of ideas was even more nefarious than we thought.

Education campaigns for HIV/AIDS hold lessons for COVID-19.

Six decades ago, Gordon Parks, Life magazine’s first black photographer, revolutionized what a crime photo could look like.

Ideologues of left and right have learned to stop worrying and love rhetorical violence.

The agency's earliest ad campaigns emphasized youthful idealism, patriotism and travel opportunities.

The way Americans have long discussed racism is a huge part of the problem.

How talk radio established the power of the modern Republican Party.

Watching fake news spread in 1942.

Newspapers must be for the people. It’s worth investing our tax dollars in them.

The different ways news media approaches pandemic reporting.

In a devastating 1793 epidemic people transformed their newspaper into something like today’s social media.

Two copies of the first-person account were tucked away, largely untouched until after his death. Now, his family is sharing his story.

A brief history of death tolls.

But the COVID-19 pandemic exposes its weaknesses.

Naming the first people to fall sick often leads to abuse.

The terrifying, censored coverage of the 1918 Spanish flu.

When editors believed their magazines could change lives.

Dorothy Thompson finds a room of her own.

Bernie Sanders is a Democratic Socialist, a potential problem for the presidential candidate. A Cold War campaign to link American-ness and capitalism helped create popular distrust of socialism.

It took a while for pundits and other observers to truly understand the power of the new platform.

The New Hampshire returns tell us a lot about the leading candidates.

Clare Beams on women's bodies and the power of names.

In the 1950s, 'coming out' meant quietly acknowledging one's sexual orientation. Today, the term is used by a broad array of social movements.

Our future might look much like our past, with pills as a major part of abortion access—and an obsessive target for abortion opponents.

In the 1960s, the precursor to PBS explored the burgeoning conservative movement, providing a remarkable window into the history of conservatism.

The poorly crafted disease metaphor often accompanies a bad outcome.

The newspaper standby still rivets our attention a century later.

It’s 2020 — do you know where your content is?

The only debate arrangement that everyone could agree to 60 years ago remains in place today – the game show format.

This year, Merriam-Webster added a new definition to the word “they”: “used to refer to a single person whose gender identity is nonbinary.”