Told

The term is 80 years old. Everyone is still fighting over its meaning.

What did Truman and Oppenheimer actually say in that room?

‘Off off the record’ with the man who secretly taped our telephone calls.

What made those left-of-the-dial broadcasts so special during the 1980s, ‘90s and 2000s?

On Kliph Nesteroff’s book, “Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars.”

An interrogation of The New York Times’ archive reveals a sordid record of support for American wars, right-wing dictatorships and U.S.-backed regime-change.

To most of the world, “corn” is “maize,” a word that comes from the Taíno mahizwas. Not for British colonists in North America, though.

We reach for the term when we want to condemn the worst crimes, but the UN’s Genocide Convention excuses more perpetrators of mass murder than it condemns.

Understanding history can help us understand what will be necessary if we’re serious about finally having a more diverse, less exclusionary publishing industry.

How concern about injuries is changing sports.

As our faith in the future plummets and the present blends with the past, we feel certain that we’ve reached the point where history has fallen apart.

A president’s infamous protestation 50 years ago during Watergate relied on an Old Norse term for things that take a turn.

As the United States prepared to enter World War I, the government created the first modern state propaganda office, the Committee on Public Information.

Experts have warned that utterly realistic A.I.-generated videos might wreak havoc through deception. What’s happened is troubling in a different way.

Slips of paper with peculiar regional terms crossed the Atlantic to Oxford and into the pages of a 70-year lexicographical project.

At the height of George W. Bush’s War on Terror, Jimmy Carter had the courage to call out Israel for its human rights abuses.

One thing’s for sure: The CIA doesn’t want you to know.

The ultimate semantic receivers, selectors, and transmitters are still us.

Making sense of anti-Semitism today requires examining Henry Ford’s outsize part in its origins.

When the Pentagon wanted a photographer to record the largest airborne assault in the Vietnam War, the most qualified candidate was a young French woman.

Rare footage of the woman magician's act captures her magnetic stage presence and range of tricks.

"Ebony" strives to become a one-stop shop.

From Bill Buckley to our 24/7 media circus.

Exclusive interviews with Daniel Ellsberg and a long-buried memo reveal new details about one of the 20th century's biggest scoops.

Buckley’s seldom-acknowledged fluency in Spanish shaped his worldview—including his admiration for dictators from Spain to Chile and beyond.

Cable TV's backers sold the technology as a boon to democracy, but embraced a business model that chased niche audiences.

Decisions made now could shape the next 100 years.

Reconstruction-era opponents of racial equality popularized the charge that protecting civil rights would amount to the end of capitalism.

Quills were once the default writing tool, when pens rose to prominence their impact on writing would be a hot debate in the literary world, and now computers.

How English words evolved on a foreign continent.