Egyptian Ex-President Mohamed Morsi died of a heart attack on June 17, 2019, in a soundless cage in a Cairo courtroom. A leader in the Muslim Brotherhood, Morsi was Egypt’s first democratically ...

In much of the world, consanguineous marriage between cousins is very common. For most Americans, however, marriage between cousins is at best a punchline, at worst a taboo. In many states, it is ...

Middle-aged performers are taking on roles once reserved for men, challenging expectations about age and gender in Bali.

In the early- to mid-nineteenth century, Americans heard different things depending on their ideological predispositions, and perhaps to some extent we still do. After all, this summer many of us will ...

In 1950, the U.S. State Department fired 91 employees because they were homosexual or suspected of being homosexual. In the next two years, nearly 200 more state employees were dismissed for the same ...

A Pennsylvania couple spotted one of the world’s most unusual birds in their backyard feeder. The northern cardinal looked like it was painted down the middle: one half was the brown of a female ...

Frances Benjamin Johnston looked beyond grand estates to document the ordinary buildings that defined American life.

Research on police training finds that realistic simulations may reinforce expectations of violence instead of preventing it.

Mayflower colonist John Goodman was out for a walk around Plymouth Colony with a spaniel, one of the two dogs that had also ...

Sixty years ago, the Cold War chessboard was suddenly rearranged. The Sino-Soviet Split shattered the idea of monolithic international communism. With the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) ...

Most body parts come alone or in pairs. We have one nose, one tongue, and one navel. We sport two eyes, two knees, two feet, and so on. Fingers are a glaring exception—we’ve got a party of five on ...

McGraw-Hill has apologized for its caption on a map in one of its textbooks that seemed to characterize the Atlantic slave trade as the “immigration” of “workers” after the mother of a student in ...