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Oct 31, 2018
What the Constitution Really Says About Birthright Citizenship
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by Akhil Reed Amar and Steven G. Calabresi
Oct 31, 2018
Trump Wants to Revoke Birthright Citizenship. Here's What to Know About Why That Right Exists
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by Gina Martinez
Oct 30, 2018
What Is Samhain? What to Know About the Ancient Pagan Festival That Came Before Halloween
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by Cady Lang
Oct 29, 2018
What Does It Mean to Discriminate Because of 'Sex?' How the Legal Meaning of That Word Has Evolved
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by Katy Steinmetz
Oct 26, 2018
Mail Bombs Rocked American Politics a Century Ago. Here's What a Historian Thinks That Moment Has to Teach Us
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by Lily Rothman
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Oct 26, 2018
Trump Wants to Leave a Nuclear-Weapons Treaty. Here’s What Happened When Arms Control Failed in the 1930s
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by David Kaiser
Oct 26, 2018
The Real Reason People Carve Jack-O'-Lanterns for Halloween
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by Rachel E. Greenspan
Oct 25, 2018
The Idea of a 'DNA Test' for Transgender People Is Part of a Long, Dark History
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by Jeffrey Kluger
Oct 25, 2018
How the Gun Control Act of 1968 Changed America’s Approach to Firearms—And What People Get Wrong About That History
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by Olivia B. Waxman
Oct 25, 2018
What to Know About the Fiji War Hero Honored on Royal Visit
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by Casey Quackenbush
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Oct 24, 2018
Socialism Was Once America's Political Taboo. Now, Democratic Socialism Is a Viable Platform. Here's What to Know
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by Olivia B. Waxman
Oct 23, 2018
What to Know About the Rise and Fall of the Theory That the Smurfs Are Communists
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by Mahita Gajanan
Oct 22, 2018
Trump Is Hitting the Midterm Campaign Trail Hard. History Shows That Doesn't Always Make a Difference
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by Olivia B. Waxman
Oct 20, 2018
Elizabeth Warren's DNA Test and the Difficult History of Looking for Answers in Blood
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by Arica L. Coleman
Oct 19, 2018
Inside the Day That Turned Jacqueline Kennedy Into 'Jackie O.'
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by Olivia B. Waxman