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Why Soccer Players Have So Many Tattoos

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The Three Major Forms of Surveillance on Facebook

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June 12, 2018 11:00 AM

The Economic Theory That Explains Why the U.S. Men’s Soccer Team Has Been on the Decline

Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski

June 11, 2018 8:24 AM

What if Richard Nixon Had Been Good at Football?

Mike Pesca and Julian Zelizer

May 18, 2018 5:55 AM

How a Mugger Helped Create the NSA’s Post-9/11 Surveillance Program

Cyrus Farivar

May 11, 2018 9:15 AM

The Best Robots Won’t Replace People—They’ll Be More Like Extra-Helpful Teddy Bears

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March 27, 2018 11:25 AM

How a Southern Theater Won Its Battle to Stage Angels in America but Lost the Culture Wars

Isaac Butler and Dan Kois

Feb 13, 2018 7:30 AM

What Happened When Formerly Enslaved Americans Won the Right to Bear Arms

Nicholas Johnson

Feb 10, 2018 7:00 AM

How Formerly Enslaved Black Women Fought for Sexual Justice

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Feb 02, 2018 8:04 AM

VR Won’t Be a Must-Have Until You Can Believably Shake Someone’s Hand in Cyberspace

Jeremy Bailenson

Jan 29, 2018 7:15 AM

Why Public Transportation Was One of the First Battlegrounds for Post-Emancipation Civil Rights

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Dec 26, 2017 8:15 AM

How a 19th-Century Fight Over Theatergoing Transformed Our Understanding of Human Rights

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Dec 21, 2017 1:47 PM

Can Environment Shape Our Identities? A New Book Suggests We’re More Malleable Than We Think.

Japonica Brown-Saracino

Dec 13, 2017 8:35 AM

How Black Americans Learned to Read During Reconstruction, When All the Books Were Racist

Heather Andrea Williams

Dec 08, 2017 7:20 AM

After Emancipation, Here’s What Happened When Slave Owners Had to Start Paying “the Help”

Thavolia Glymph

Nov 28, 2017 11:52 AM

Technology Should Stop Catering to the “Average” User. We’re All Edge Cases.

Sara Wachter-Boettcher

Nov 14, 2017 11:17 AM

What Former Slaves Lost When Andrew Johnson Restored Lands to Confederate Owners

Patricia C. Click

Nov 08, 2017 2:11 PM

This Is What It Took for an Enslaved Person to Become a Landowner After Emancipation

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The Five Mind-Blowing Technologies We Had to Cut From Our Book About the Future

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