Told

The next 9/11 never came. Instead, we got Sandy Hook, and Las Vegas, and Parkland…

Tracing the evolution and challenges of fact-checking in journalism.

In Depression-era San Antonio, polarized portraits of Mexicans appealed to the biases of readers.

John Huston's 1945 movie The Battle of San Pietro presents itself as a war documentary, but contains staged scenes. What should we make of it?

A professor explains the trauma of encountering "an idea disguised as a word."

It happens every year.

When Vice President Spiro Agnew gave a speech in 1969 bashing the press, he fired some of the first shots in a culture war that persists to this day.

Declassified government documents show how both sides of the Iron Curtain worked to have the projects canned.

Celebrating its 50th anniversary, the beloved children’s television show was shaped by the African-American communities in Harlem and beyond.

“A brand mascot that jumped off the cereal box”: a TV critic explains the multimedia character Trump created.

How the alienated margins arrived at the center of American politics.

What I saw as the editor of “The Art of the Deal,” the book that made the future President millions of dollars and turned him into a national figure.

Wherever there has been power, there has been a struggle for narrative control.

Fox News shields President Trump, but his love for their conspiracies might bring him down.

When did people start using the phrase to refer to a group of two or more?

“No harm if true; but, in fact, not true.”

What would the French Revolution have looked like on Twitter?

Armed with footnotes, we can save democracy.

How Louisa May Alcott found a niche in observing the world around her.

AM stations mainly wanted to keep listeners engaged—but ended up remaking the Republican Party.

The first newspapers contained not high-minded journalism, but hundreds of readers’ letters exchanging news with one another.

On the cancelling of Charles Lindbergh.

Gravely inaccurate 19th-century depictions of the destruction of Rome are used to illustrate parallels between Rome and the U.S.

What would an American dictionary meen for the men and wimmen of America?

Southern newspapers played a major role in racial violence. Do they owe their communities an apology?

How shock jock comedy gave way to Donald Trump’s Republican Party.

The impact of Columbine on today's youths -- and how the media has shifted its coverage of school shootings.

Searching for meaning in the shooters’ infamous “basement tapes.”

His failed attempts to bring the Emmett Till tragedy to television forced him to get creative.

Reading recommendations from a lifelong education.