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Land in what is now eastern Oklahoma, which was granted to the Creek Nation by Congress in 1833, is still under tribal sovereignty,…
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The use of military metaphors in some contexts can be helpful. In medicine? Not so much.
A scholar of slavery in the British Empire describes the first boycott against sugar made with slave labor in the West Indies.
Research shows that millennials don't drive as much as previous generations, largely because of their beliefs.
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Rejected by their countries but seen as outsiders in the West, queer and trans Muslims often live in limbo. The mental health…
The #SayTheirNames campaign recalls the long struggle by Black Americans to assert their humanity in death, with roots in…
The WHO is a health agency, not a political one. Yet political leaders have often criticized it. Still, the move by the…
In cases testing the limits of presidential power, the Supreme Court ruled the president has no special protections that…
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The promised benefits of lethal injection – a quick, painless death – have never come true. There's not even agreement…
The Bolsonaro government cannot simply allow Brazil's out-of-control coronavirus pandemic to decimate its Indigenous…
Americans with lower incomes today are less happy than they were 40 years ago. Could the growing class divide be to blame?
The recent vote in Russia supporting Vladimir Putin's constitutional reforms was pure theater and obscures growing friction…
For many Americans, law and order has long been as much a private matter as something for the government to handle.
Inventors in states with more socially liberal laws on the books end up with more diverse collaborators – and more higher-impact…