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Blackface and the Roots of Racism in American Medicine

The study of medicine is rife with racist assumptions and experiments that still shape health outcomes today.

Manufacturing Illegality

Historian Mae Ngai reflects on how a century of immigration law created a crisis.
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How Pocahontas—The Myth and the Slur—Props Up White Supremacy

The roots of the attacks on Elizabeth Warren.
Black and white photograph of Henrietta Schmerler.

How Henrietta Schmerler Was Lost, Then Found

Women anthropologists, face assault in the field, exposing victim blaming, institutional failures, and ethical gaps in academia.

Here Is a Human Being

The Spotify and Ancestry partnership proposes to entertain users based on the narrowest possible conception of who they are.
New York City skyscrapers

Capital of the World

The radical and reactionary currents of New York at the turn of the 20th century.

What Can We Learn From Utopians of the Past?

Four nineteenth-century authors offered blueprints for a better world—but their progressive visions had a dark side.

End of the American Dream? The Dark History of 'America First'

When he promised to put America first in his inaugural speech, Donald Trump drew on a slogan with a long and sinister history.

White Supremacy Is the Achilles Heel of American Democracy

Even in a high-tech era, fears about minority political agency are the most reliable way to destabilize the U.S. political system.

Modern Mindfulness is Rooted in a Racist History

Before Americans turned to Buddhism for life hacks, they treated it like a dangerous cult.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents enter an apartment complex in Dallas.
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Republicans Want to Use Immigration Policy to Make America Whiter. They’re Destined to Fail.

Policies meant to whiten America almost always backfire.

Virginia Is for Lovers

Fifty years after Loving v. Virginia, four scholars consider the legacy of the famous Supreme Court decision.
Science for the People at 2017’s March for Science.

Why a Radical 1970s Science Group Is More Relevant Than Ever

A second life for an organization of scientists who questioned how their work was being used.

How Colonial Violence Came Home: The Ugly Truth of the First World War

We remember WWI as an unexpected catastrophe. But for the millions living under imperialist rule, terror and degradation were nothing new.

Activists Splatter Red Paint on Roosevelt Monument at American Museum of Natural History

The early-morning action is the latest in a series of protests demanding the statue’s removal.

How A Psychologist’s Work on Race Identity Helped Overturn School Segregation

Mamie Phipps Clark came up with the oft-cited “doll test” and provided expert testimony in Brown v. Board of Education.

The Nazis Were Obsessed With Magic

What can their fascination with the supernatural teach us about life in our own post-truth times?
Clarence Darrow, left, with William Jennings Bryan, right, at the Scopes Trial.

Now More Than Ever, We Need Less History

The “now more than ever” tendency is everywhere.

Trump's Anti-Immigration Playbook Was Written 100 Years Ago. In Boston.

How a trio of Harvard-educated blue bloods led a crusade to keep the "undesirables" out and make America great again.
The Caucasus Mountains, a mountain system that runs through several countries.

Why Do We Keep Using the Word “Caucasian”?

When a term signifies something that does not exist, we need to examine our use of it.

Is Racism a Disease?

Is a psychological diagnosis a useful way to view racism-or does it merely absolve the racist of blame?

Executing 'Idiots'

Would the Founders have protected people we execute now?

37 Maps That Explain How America Is a Nation of Immigrants

It's impossible to understand the country without knowing who's been kept out, who's been let in, and how they've been treated once they arrive.
A depiction of the female reproduction system in an early sex ed film.

Slut-Shaming, Eugenics, and Donald Duck

The scandalous history of sex-ed movies.
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U.S. Foreign Policy in the Cold War was Designed by a Bigot

George Kennan's diaries reveal just how much he hated America.
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Indigenous Circuits

While researching the history of racism in Silicon Valley, Lisa Nakamura is surprised to discover the Navajo Nation's role in the creation of the tech industry.

Birthright

What's next for Planned Parenthood?

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