After Gilbert and Sullivan, a wave of American writers made the musical truly their own and created what is now called "The American Songbook." Learn ...

After Gilbert and Sullivan, a wave of American writers made the musical truly their own and created what is now called "The American Songbook." Learn ...

Americans by and large are unhappy with our parties and our government. But with a few structural changes, we could bring our political system back fr...

Most polar explorers survived while nearly all hauling animals died on polar expeditions. Why did Robert F. Scott die in the antarctic and what does i...

In many times and places, there were more than two options when it came to gender. Eunuchs no longer exist as a class but nonbinary people are startin...

Part 1 of 2. For most of history, eunuchs were an integral part of imperial administration. Who were eunuchs and what can we learn about gender in pol...

We have been quarantining since before the invention of germ theory. Why do we quarantine and what can we learn from pandemics of the past?

Over the 20th Century, superconspiracy theories have infiltrated the American political discourse, particularly on the right. This process reached its...

What is a conspiracy theory? Where do they come from? Why does my grandma keep posting them on Facebook? This is the story of how fringe theories conq...

In 1953 the Canadian government relocated Inuit to the inhospitable far north. Why?