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Map shows oldest buildings for each U.S. state – but also hints at what’s missing.
Google’s “Year in Search 2020” results reveal a year when “why” was searched more than ever.
The 2020 election cycle is not yet as wild as the 1876 election that made Rutherford B. Hayes president.
Carbon dating allows us to know exactly when ice was melted for drinking water in pre-Columbian America.
Britons could start receiving the vaccine within days.
The next era in American history can look entirely different. It’s up to us to choose.
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The COVID-19 pandemic is making health disparities in the United States crystal clear. It is a clarion call for health care systems to double their efforts in vulnerable communities.
Experts plead with Americans to keep gatherings limited this Thanksgiving, while families devise new ways to celebrate the holidays.
It was a concept borrowed from the Iroquois, and one that America never quite mastered.
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Recent American presidents have all faced a crisis of legitimacy in a trend that threatens the health of our democracy.
It’s “the biggest blow to the war on drugs to date,” said Kassandra Frederique, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance.
In this 1915 map, Lady Liberty shines her light in the West on women in the East, still in electoral darkness
What qualifies someone for the top position in American government?
Both social media companies plan to implement special protocols on Tuesday as election results begin rolling in.
Partisan division has reached its peak, shows an alarming new study that identifies three crucial components.
Monopolies wield an immense amount of economic and political power and influence. So what can we do to make the economy more equitable?
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States set their own voting laws, so where does this make voting easiest?
Why not just divide the United States in slices of equal population?
Nazi supporters held huge rallies and summer camps for kids throughout the United States in the 1930s.
Younger Americans support expanding the Supreme Court and serious political reforms, says new poll.
Northwell Health CEO Michael Dowling has an important favor to ask of the American people.
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Law professor Ganesh Sitaraman explains why America has never achieved true democracy—and how it can.
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This week, Big Think is partnering with Freethink to bring you amazing stories of the people and technologies that are shaping our future.
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Confirmation bias is baked into the DNA of America, but it may soon be the nation’s undoing.
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What do we want to do with convicted criminals? Penology has several philosophies waiting to answer that question.
What would happen if you tripled the US population? Matthew Yglesias and moderator Charles Duhigg explore the idea on Big Think Live.
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They came from different places and with different ideas, which still resonate today.
The U.S., China, and Russia are in a “vaccine race” that treats a global challenge like a winner-take-all game.
The Labour Economics study suggests two potential reasons for the increase: corruption and increased capacity.
The ‘Charleston Loophole’ has likely allowed thousands of guns to end up in the hands of people who would have failed a federal background check.