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Where America First Went Wrong on Confederate Monuments

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How Much Do We Still Owe to Ernest Hemingway?

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Non-English Editions of Wikipedia Have a Misinformation Problem

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How to Catalog Pandemic History

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When Psychiatry and the Media Colluded Against the Gays

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The Strangest Thing About This Year’s Best Picture Nominees

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What COVID-Scarred Cities Can Learn From the Bubonic Plague

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Why the University of Texas Cannot Force Athletes to Stand for Its Racist Song

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Why the Director of Napoleon Dynamite Made a Movie About a Mormon Murderer

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