The battle over birthright citizenship is a battle over its exceptions. The 14th Amendment’s first sentence proudly proclaims that “[a]ll persons born . . . in the United States, and subject to the ...

This isn’t Enrigue’s first foray into historical absurdism. His previous novel published in English, You Dreamed of Empires, retells the encounter between the conquistador Hernán Cortés and the Aztec ...

Tucker Carlson raised a barrage of inflammatory and reckless claims about Israel, Evangelical Christians, and the alleged influence of the Israeli government on American churches ...

What does the term ‘Middle East’ really mean and who decided it? The answer lies buried in history, where maps were drawn not just by geography, but by power and perspective ...

Seventeen artists have been named as nominees for the 2026 class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Let's consider the pros ...

Always the insightful dramaturg, Stages has set up the usual museum-quality context in the lobby to prepare and frame the ...

Long before the famous Underground Railroad, those seeking freedom from slavery traveled on foot, by boat and under cover of darkness to Fort Mose in Spanish-controlled Florida ...

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As President Trump delivered his State of the Union address, reporters from across NPR's newsroom, are fact checking his ...

A significant portion of the American public associates the term “Islam” with extremism, oppression, and violence.  This ...

Northwestern’s Daisy Hernández explores how citizenship was constructed and has changed throughout American history as a tool of exclusion.

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.