During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration conducted thousands of interviews among American workers. Anne Trubek's “American Made” gives them new voice.

Four TV shows, now acknowledged as the medium’s high point, each cannily predicted the ways in which America would start to crack apart.

How could so little have changed?

The Texas native is top donor to several statewide Democratic candidates and a major player in super PACs helping James Talarico.

Above: Actor Jeff Corey (1914-2002), in Brute Force (Universal Pictures, 1947). Later photos of Corey--which can be found with a simple Go...

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Three nineteenth-century memoirs reveal the risks and rewards of life on the road as a traveling bookseller.

In much of the coverage of the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore debacle, the reality of the incident is turned on its head, as...

Podcast Episode · The History on Film Podcast · September 21 · 2h 34m

Five Years Into a Fishing Ban, the Yangtze River Is Teeming With Life

Were the terrorist attacks that day the end of an idyllic era? The beginning of our current dystopia? Or just a middle chapter?

We need a legal standard that would prohibit sexism and gender bias in criminal trials.

What if 50 years from now, having destroyed the habitat for the creatures around us, we are plagued by an inconsolable loneliness?

In “The Time Tax,” the Atlantic journalist Annie Lowrey takes aim at bureaucratic red tape.

🚨NEWS: Amid safety alarms, @Gavin Newsom sided with his tech donors & vetoed Democratic legislation to impose "kill switch" safeguards on AI companies whose whistleblowers now warn that their technolo...

Podcast Episode · Impolitic with John Heilemann · September 4 · 1h 25m

Activist and author Angela Davis remembers her friend Gloria Steinem, and discusses intersectional feminism today.

Critics slam teachers and public schools for low reading scores. Much of that criticism is wrong and misses the real problem. The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and the Science of Reading (SoR) bo...

AB 2222, the Community NEWS Act, is going to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk.

The Academy will continue scientific research and public education, but its museum will go the way of the dinosaur.

Maintaining that access to abortion was as much a matter of economic equality as women’s rights, she successfully championed state reimbursement for abortions.

Families in Palo Alto and other cities have cited the distracting qualities of technology in a push to further restrict it in schools.

I can’t add anything to the outpouring of love and respect for Dolly Parton. She was phenomenal, in dozens of ways. As a musician, I appreciate her melodic genius and as a writer, I admire her gift…

[As with any longstanding, popular cultural genre, country music has a complex, evolving relationship to American society. In this series, ...

In the 1960s and 1970s, Ursula K. Le Guin wrote speculative fiction shaped by her interests in environments and ecologies, her pacifist anarchist feminism, and her anti-Vietnam War activism. A Wiza…

How a 1965 self-immolation left a family, hometown grappling with its meaning

Genuinely enchanting. More unusual, gently told.

At home, moderation and restraint are the rule for tech parents. Boredom is exalted. Maybe they’re onto something.

Like the early days of the shark fin trade, the mostly unregulated market for dried fish swim bladders has exploded in popularity, devastating species around the world.

Some of the world’s last California condors were penned up at the end of a burning road due to the Timber Fire along the coast of Big Sur. Two men braved columns of flames to free them.