House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) has learned that officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are working to divert billions of dollars from the National Institute...

Today, the entire community of professional musicians mourns the loss of an irreplaceable icon and a generous heart: Dolly Parton. While the world knows her as a global superstar and philanthropist…

We speak with Lauren Arrington about her forthcoming book on women artists in the Federal Arts Project. The Great Depression rendered 140,000 women and girls across the United States homeless. In 1…

Her student—a former Nazi stormtrooper—was proof that no one was lost to the new regime, that every person might choose to refuse.

The criminal extortion group ShinyHunters breached Instructure last week. The hackers, who have also attacked individual universities, demanded the ed-tech giant pay up or face a data leak.

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The far right is on the march again – but this time it’s different from anything we’ve seen before. A new, apocalyptic alliance of religious fundamentalists, billionaire Silicon Valley tech kings and ...

Important Dates March 25, 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize Longlist April 22, 2026 Griffin Poetry Prize Shortlist MAY 6, 2026 Lifetime Recognition Award Recipient announced MAY 20, 2026 Canadian First Book…

Two of America’s most prominent early 20th century photographers visited Manzanar, on distinct and equally fraught missions that nonetheless produced a number of striking images, including of baseball...

Debate about Irish people’s hair has endured for centuries

In this episode, we speak with Tyler Creighton about the ongoing struggle to save the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from defunding and closure at the hands of Russell Vought in the se…

The extraordinary and unexamined history of a radical group of women artists funded by Roosevelt’s New Deal, who challenged racism and inequality and creat...