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The Future
What a historian in 2100 might say about Trump’s America
Trump may make America great again — just not in the way he had intended.
Peter Leyden
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The Wizard of Oz is a story about the dangers of the gold standard
Reading between the lines of Dorothy’s adventure to the Emerald City.
Marianne Hayes
Million Stories
The Past
Why the Model T was Henry Ford’s epic poem
Anything, good or bad, about Henry Ford can be contradicted — except his ambition and his work.
Bryan Appleyard
great replacement
Pessimists Archive
Why “Great Replacement” theorists tried to cancel teddy bears
In the early 1900s, some Americans feared that teddy bears would not instill maternal instincts in girls, thereby causing "race suicide."
Louis Anslow
Close-up of a lion's open mouth showing sharp teeth and tongue, painted in a realistic style with rich brown and yellow tones, capturing intensity that echoes themes seen in the neuroscience of inequality.
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The Well
The incredible neuroscience behind the culture wars
What inequality and populism look like in the brain, according to a neuroscientist.
Molly Crockett
John Templeton Foundation
The Past
How George Washington used his first Thanksgiving as president to unite a new country
Washington believed that particular Thanksgiving in 1789 was a crucial occasion.
Maurizio Valsania
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