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It Didn’t Start with Facebook: Surveillance and the Commercial Media

The era of audience exploitation began in earnest thanks in large part to the experiments of Dr. Frank Stanton in the 1930s.

Serial Killers: A New Breed of Celebrity

Pop culture's surreal embrace of the serial killer.

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.

Voices in Time: The KKK Makes Its Case in Mass Media

The author of "The Second Coming of the KKK" shows an early twentieth-century attempt to go mainstream.

What Trump Could Learn from America's Long History of Sex Scandals

Too bad Trump isn't a student of history.
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How Social Media Spread a Historical Lie

A mix of journalistic mistakes and partisan hackery advanced a pernicious lie about Democrats and the Klan.
Timor residents in traditional dress look at a National Geographic photographer demonstrating his camera.

National Geographic Has Always Depended on Exoticism

With its race issue, the magazine is trying a different direction. Can it escape its past?

Why Tamika Mallory Won’t Condemn Farrakhan

To those outside the black community, the Nation of Islam’s persistent appeal, despite its bigotry, can seem incomprehensible.

Kneeling for Hollywood

How Hollywood portrays religious prayer.

The ‘SNL’ Sketch That Predicted Our Nerd Overlords

In 1986, William Shatner told a roomful of spoof Trekkies to "get a life."

Is It Time for a 21st-Century Version of ‘The Day After’?

It’s beginning to feel like the 1980s all over again.

Same As It Ever Was: Orientalism Forty Years Later

On Edward Said, othering, and the depictions of Arabs in America.

Memories of Mississippi

SNCC staff photographer Danny Lyon recounts his experiences in the early days of the civil rights movement.

1968’s Chaos: The Assassinations, Riots and Protests that Defined Our World

On the 50th anniversary of that extraordinary year, historians consider 1968’s meaning and global context.
Funeral flower arrangement with a ribbon reading "R.I.P. Internet."
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Why Ajit Pai is Wrong About Net Neutrality

FCC regulations have long promoted innovation that benefits consumers, not stifled it.

Simeon Booker, Intrepid Chronicler of Civil Rights Struggle for Jet and Ebony, Dies at 99

He risked his life to expose Emmett Till’s death and the Freedom Rides to a national audience.

The New York Times and the Movement for Integrated Education in New York City

When covering the struggle against school segregation in its own backyard, the paper of record came up short.
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Armed Resistance, Lone Wolves, and Media Messaging: Meet the Godfather of the ‘Alt-Right’

There would be no Richard Spencer without Louis Beam.

The Strange Story of the Forever 1980s

Why the makers of today's popular culture are still so obsessed with the Reagan era.

Trump is the New _______

Nixon? Reagan? Jackson? Historical analogies are simplistic, misleading—and absolutely essential.
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The Problem with "Reagan Democrats"

Does the trope obscure more than it illuminates about the 2016 election?
President Richard Nixon prepares to go on television May 23, 1970 in the Oval Office.
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When It Comes to Harassing the Media, Trump is No Nixon

Trump challenges the press. Nixon changed it.

What Facebook Did to American Democracy

And why it was so hard to see it coming.
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Why Trump’s Assault on NBC and “Fake News” Threatens Freedom of the Press

Restricting the press backfires politically.

Hugh Hefner Was Never The Star of Playboy

Perhaps the only true generalization to make about Hefner is that he is given too much credit for his role in American history.
Young men show a reporter how to make molotov cocktails in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, in July 1966. (Bill Ray/Life Picture Collection/Getty Images)

One of America's Smartest Magazines Published a Molotov Cocktail How-To in 1967

A riot represents people making history.

Who is the Enemy Here?

The Vietnam War pictures that moved them most.

Guess Whether These Headlines Came From Breitbart or 1920s KKK Newspapers

Today's headlines evoke the the racist and hate filled headlines of KKK publications.

How Vietnam Dramatically Changed Our Views on Honor and War

The military’s focus on individual service members in the late years of Vietnam has created a permanent legacy

Understanding the Antifa

The anti-fascist left stems from a long tradition of violence and protest in America.

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