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News Articles: History

A model economy in flowing water.

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  • Business

How Bill Phillips used flowing water to model the economy

Bill Phillips was an outsider to economics, but he used a machine and a chart to change the way we think about the government's role in a capitalist economy.

April 07, 2026
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  • Alex Mayyasi
President Trump holds a rendering of the East Wing modernization while speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday.

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  • Politics

Trump's ballroom fight sheds new light on an underground White House bunker

The status of a decades-old bunker beneath the now-demolished East Wing is unclear, but the Trump administration has cited security concerns in its legal filings in favor of continuing construction.

April 03, 2026
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  • Rachel Treisman
David Bowie debuted his Ziggy Stardust persona and released <em>The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars</em> in 1972 — the last year humans went to the moon.

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  • History

Ziggy Stardust and Hacky Sack: What life was like the last time we went to the moon

The Artemis II mission is the first time humans have headed to the moon since 1972. That year also marked the debut of The Godfather and the Egg McMuffin.

April 03, 2026
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  • Rachel Treisman

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  • Book Reviews

'Stay Alive,' about daily life in Nazi Berlin, shows how easy it is to just go along

Historian Ian Buruma chronicles the lives of ordinary Berliners — including his own father — during World War II. Stay Alive is about the past, but has powerful lessons for the present.

April 02, 2026
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  • John Powers
Signage outside of The Forty Acres, the first headquarters for the United Farm Workers of America, founded by Cesar Chavez in Delano, Calif., on March 29.

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  • National

In a town close to the farmworker movement, some struggle to process Chavez allegations

March 31 is Cesar Chavez's birthday, and a longtime holiday. In the wake of sexual assault allegations against him, residents in the farming town of Delano are conflicted about how to remember him.

March 31, 2026
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  • Kerry Klein
Statues of d'Artagnan and The Three Musketeers in Condom, France.

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  • History

A skeleton discovered in a Dutch church may belong to musketeer d'Artagnan

Human remains found in a church in the Netherlands could be those of d'Artagnan, one of the legendary French swordsmen who inspired the novel The Three Musketeers.

March 30, 2026
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  • Eleanor Beardsley

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  • Education

How a SCOTUS decision on birthright citizenship could impact education access

All children, regardless of immigration status, have the right to a free K-12 public education. But without birthright citizenship, access to schools and colleges could get complicated.

March 30, 2026
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  • Jonaki Mehta
Bryan Stevenson stands beside jars that hold soil collected from sites where Black people were lynched. He is the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative and the author of <em>Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption</em>.

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  • Race

At the Legacy Museum, facing America's racist past is a path, not a punishment

"There is an America that is more free — where there's more equality, where there is more justice, where there is less bigotry — and I think it's waiting for us," says lawyer Bryan Stevenson.

March 26, 2026
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  • Terry Gross
The 1944 film <em>Gaslight</em> starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer dramatizes the concept of gaslighting.

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  • Arts & Life

Are you sure you know what 'gaslighting' is?

Therapists say we're overusing the word. Here's what it actually means — and what the Ingrid Bergman film that helped birth the word can teach us about it.

March 25, 2026
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  • Emma Bowman
Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta were co-founders of the United Farm Workers. On March 18, Huerta issued <a href="https://medium.com/@dolores_huerta/march-18-2026-e74c20430555?postPublishedType=initial"target="_blank"   >a statement</a> alleging that Chavez raped her. Cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz says creating this image was a sort of therapy.

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  • Arts & Life

'We're all in grief': Chicano artists reckon with Cesar Chavez abuse allegations

Artists, filmmakers and singers once championed Chavez as a hero. Now, they must rethink how to tell his story. "It's just been gut-wrenching," one muralist says.

March 25, 2026
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  • Mandalit del Barco
The final catapult launch of the F-14 Tomcat fighter aircraft aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt on July 28, 2006. The U.S. military retired the plane that year.

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  • National Security

Airstrikes may have destroyed Iran's last F-14s, ending a long, strange saga

The F-14 was made famous in Top Gun. The U.S. sold the planes to Iran in the 1970s, only for the two countries to become enemies. Iran kept its F-14s flying for decades in the face of U.S. sanctions.

March 24, 2026
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  • Scott Neuman
The sun rises over the Washington Monument and blooming cherry blossoms at the Tidal Basin on March 27, 2025, in Washington, D.C.

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  • National

As D.C.'s cherry blossom trees near peak bloom, here's a guide to their history

The renowned trees along Washington, D.C's Tidal Basin were sent as a gift from Japan in 1912. Some of the original trees are still there.

March 23, 2026
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  • Chandelis Duster
X marks many spots.

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  • Arts & Life

From Descartes to punk rock, the letter X has an extraordinary history

The letter X can be a lot of things: rebellious, mysterious, religious. For this Word of the Week, we examine its origins and many uses.

March 17, 2026
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  • James Doubek
Frank Costello, the powerful New York crime figure, sits patiently during testimony before the Kefauver Senate investigating committee in 1951.

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  • Television

75 years ago, a viral TV moment ignited America's obsession with the Mafia

Crooked contracts, bribery, shady characters. In 1951, millions tuned in to watch the Kefauver organized crime hearings, showing the power of television.

March 16, 2026
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  • Steve Drummond
An Oscar statue appears outside the Dolby Theatre ahead of the 2015 ceremony. But who is he really?

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  • Pop Culture

And the Oscar goes to — wait, why is it called an Oscar?

The Academy Awards officially adopted the "Oscars" nickname in 1939. But who is Oscar, and who started calling them that? We may never know. But here are four enduring legends to consider.

March 14, 2026
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  • Rachel Treisman
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