20:13
Articles & Videos
All PoliticsPolicyEconomyRights & JusticeInternationalClimate & EnvironmentTechnologyHealthMediaCulture & Society
8:40
It's That Time Of The Month Again...
America’s Reading Crisis That No One Wants to Talk About
This article was co-published with EdSurge, a nonprofit newsroom that covers education through original journalism and research. Sign up for their newsletters. A little girl stared at a list of test questions in her science class, unable to answer the majority. Resigned, she wrote at the top, “I failed badly”—although she misspelled it, instead writing, “I felled bedly.”  […]
Freakonomics’ Stephen Dubner on why long-form podcasting isn't dead yet
Stephen Dubner has spent 20 years proving that things aren't what they seem—and now he's not so sure that's always true.
10:34
Why Did Jackie Robinson Join McCarthyist Campaign Against Paul Robeson?
8:57
I HATE ELON MUSK SO MUCH...
‘Sinners’ snags Oscar nominations record as Hollywood embraces horror
Its 16 nominations beat the record of 14 previously held by All About Eve, Titanic, and La La Land.
9:42
This Whole Milk Propaganda is Gross
"Kings and Pawns": Howard Bryant on What Jackie Robinson & Paul Robeson Reveal About America
Today marks the 50th anniversary of Paul Robeson’s death on January 23, 1976. The actor, singer, athlete and scholar was once famous around the world, but he was attacked, blacklisted and hounded by the government for his political beliefs. Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers star who had integrated the all-white major baseball leagues, was hailed as a national hero in 1949 for testifying against Robeson before the House Un-American Activities Committee associated with Senator Joseph McCarthy. For more, we speak with sports journalist Howard Bryant, author of the new book Kings and Pawns that looks at how Robeson and Robinson’s paths intertwined at the height of the McCarthy era. “History writes people out of the story, and it’s our job to write them back in,” Bryant says. Fifty years after Paul Robeson’s death, “it’s time for a reappraisal of one of the great Americans.”
Headlines
399 headlinesDrive Racists Out of Public Life Forever, and Other Lessons From Black History
When Jeffrey Epstein Was the World’s Leading Expert on Getting Away With It
Trump Posts Video That Depicts Obamas as Apes
How women are reinterpreting the menstrual taboos in Chinese Buddhism
Caligula in the 21st Century: What the Epstein Files Reveal About U.S. Power
Schools are increasingly telling students they must put their phones away – Ohio’s example shows mixed results following new bans
Women have been mapping the world for centuries – and now they’re speaking up for the people left out of those maps
Lüften sounds simple – but ‘house-burping’ is more complicated in Pittsburgh
Philly theaters unite to stage 3 plays by Pulitzer-winning playwright James Ijames
Trump wants to shutter the Kennedy Center for 2 years – an arts management professor explains what that portends
Page 1 of 40