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Jun 10, 2025
The popularity of “Sybil” brought widespread attention to the condition, now known as Dissociative Identity Disorder, and raised questions about how media and...
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May 28, 2025
The Trump administration is reviving a controversial budget tactic, putting a Nixon-era fight over presidential power and congressional authority back in the headlines.
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Apr 30, 2025
Churches once led a refugee rescue effort that shapes U.S. immigration policy today.
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Apr 24, 2025
An inmate population surge in the 1980s led to the growth of for-profit prisons. Today, despite their mixed record, private prison companies are overseeing the vast majority of...
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Mar 31, 2025
African American women played a significant and sometimes overlooked role in the struggle to gain the vote.
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Mar 17, 2025
The Equal Rights Amendment, proposed in 1923, sparked debate from its very beginning, even among many of the women who had worked together for suffrage.
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Jan 15, 2025
New York City’s renewed efforts to tackle homelessness and untreated mental illness is raising complex questions about civil liberties, public safety and effective care.