'An Accident of Birth' tells Alex Blum’s adoption story, his discovery of his three brothers through an accidental DNA test, and how the experience helped his sense of belonging.

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“I got three best friends overnight,” Alex Blum told The Post.

A personal and policy reckoning with America’s mental health crisis

For that flare of yellow to appear, the plant must spread its seeds, and it is that seed head which is a design marvel

In her new book, Darkology, historian Rhae Lynn Barnes writes about how blackface and minstrel shows became one of the most popular forms of entertainment in 19th- and 20th-century America.

Two men experiencing mental health crises were both wielding knives. One was shot four times by police; the other got a snack and a ride back to his neighborhood. Why?

In a sense, the decline of book reviews, like the decline of newspapers themselves, is a story about disaggregation.

Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.

They don’t always march. They don’t always raise banners. But in Iran, a growing number of women are redefining what resistance looks like: through <a href="https://www.service95.com/tag/arts" targ

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Sudan’s devastating civil war shows what will replace the liberal order: anarchy and greed.

George Dunn sat in his cubicle at Peapod Press, a space small enough that if he stretched his long arms, he could nearly touch the fabric walls on either side. His pole-vault legs had never fit pro…

For a century, the BBC has broadcast the weather report for the seas around the UK. "The Shipping Forecast" has informed and lulled generations who tune in to hear it.

Discover 20 common phrases with roots in the Middle Ages, from “no man’s land” to “red-letter day,” and explore their fascinating medieval origins.

The Stolen Art Campaign by Shadows Project aims to correct misattributed Ukrainian artists in museums. Over 500,000 people and museums like the Louvre, Tate, and MoMA support this initiative.

The U.S. capital Washington sued Donald Trump on Friday over his attempted takeover of the city's police force, escalating a power struggle between the U.S. president and the city's leadership.

The dark rosettes dotting the golden-brown fur of the jaguar are no longer a rare sight in Brazil’s Iguaçu National Park. In 2010, the protected area’s population of jaguars (Panthera onca) was on…

Killed in the rainforest he hoped to help save, the journalist Dom Phillips left behind an unfinished manuscript. Those who knew him carried it forward.

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And Housing for All is an impressively comprehensive examination of homelessness in America by Maria Foscarinis, who has worked in homelessness advocacy for decades.

New Yorkers deserve better than Andrew Cuomo.

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An excerpt from Jill Elaine Hasday's latest book, We the Men:'From the start, women mobilizing for equality have endeavored to enrich and expand America’s dominant stories about itself. But attempts t...

One woman’s quest to figure out why her beloved white cheddar popcorn started to disappoint.

Most people know the major events and players in history—the wars, the presidents, the movements. But what facts from the past are lesser-known, but perhaps as significant? HISTORY.com asked a wide ra...

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