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Alternative response programs, where mental health clinicians respond to 911 calls instead of police, have proliferated since George Floyd's murder. What does it take to do this work well?

Among the Ao Naga of northeast India, humans may have been just one kind of person in a world filled with spiritual beings.

Japan offered Italian Fascists a powerful example of how ancient traditions could serve modern nationalism.

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

British elites once signaled status through high culture. Over time, pop culture and everyday leisure became part of the picture.

Should schools tackle controversial political issues? A 1903 educator thought doing so was essential to preparing future voters.

Psychology suggests that boredom is a signal. Understanding its cause can help us decide how to respond.

Autism researcher Patrick Dwyer examines how the neurodiversity movement is influencing autism research and clinical decision-making.

The journey from immigrant staple to diet snack reveals how yogurt took on a distinctly American identity.

Baldwin criticized Freudian thinking yet drew on ideas like repression in his fiction and essays.

The hunt for Charlie Wright exposed how convict leasing, labor tensions, and white supremacy shaped rural life in the Jim Crow South.

Burroughs drew on the leading Maya scholarship of his day, much of which has since been overturned.

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Milwaukee mayor Daniel Hoan believed the best argument for socialism was a city government that worked.

Long read as an imperial novel, Kim also reflects Britain's changing ideas about Buddhist thought and spiritual practice.

Online platforms help Muslim scholars and activists share feminist interpretations of Islam, expanding access to new audiences.

As automation transformed agriculture, advertisements increasingly celebrated physical strength and traditional masculine ideals.

For more than a century, foreign trips have reflected America's changing role in the world—and presidents' political priorities.

The city's prosperity grew from a system that trafficked human beings and turned their lives into profit.

Academics and media turned “machismo” into a cultural stereotype during the Cold War.

Reproductive justice offers a new way to think about human flourishing beyond the job market.

Long before chatbots, fiction grappled with rule-bound intelligence, exploring what it means to build and rely on thinking machines.

A classic essay examines the hidden dynamics behind modern prejudice.

Popular resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law and “Slave Power” helped forge a new electoral force.

Scholars find Antifa groups are small, decentralized, and largely defensive, challenging common political and media portrayals.

In Chile and Argentina, satirical publications used humor to expose political crises overlooked by the mainstream press.

When silence allows harm to continue, warning others may become a difficult but necessary moral choice.

Scientific analysis has restored the colors of ancient Greek statues. Why does seeing them restored still feel so wrong?

Across centuries, bicycles have embodied hopes for speed, freedom, efficiency, and survival.

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