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Why Queen Elizabeth II Called One Aspect of Her Coronation "Horrible"

The late monarch's coronation took place 72 years ago, on June 2, 1953.

Marie Claire · Jun 2, 2025

President Carter had to balance employers’ demands for foreign workers with pressure to restrict immigration – and so does Trump

President Donald Trump promised during his three presidential campaigns to deport as many immigrants living in the U.S. without legal authorization as possible.

The Conversation · Jan 29, 2025

Luigi Mangione isn’t the first alleged criminal to capture many people’s imaginations – and hearts

The fatal shooting of Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare, on Dec. 4, 2024, in New York City, immediately captured national attention. But many people immediately fixated mostly on the manhunt for the assailant, and then on Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old suspect who was charged on Dec. 9 with…

The Conversation · Dec 18, 2024

Willie Mays, baseball’s towering legend and all-time Giants great, dies aged 93

Willie Mays, one of baseball’s all-time greatest players who retired with 660 career home runs, has died at 93

The Guardian - US · Jun 19, 2024

Preying on white fears worked for Georgia’s Lester Maddox in the ’60s − and is working there for Donald Trump today

In January 1967, after a gubernatorial election that saw neither candidate gain enough votes to win, the Georgia Legislature was faced with a vital decision: the selection of the state’s 75th governor during the height of the Civil Rights Movement.

The Conversation · May 16, 2024

The 'Feud: Capote vs. The Swans’ Cast Compared to Their Real-Life Counterparts

Meet the glamorous socialites of 1970s NYC.

Marie Claire · Feb 1, 2024

‘He’d been through the fire’: John Lewis, civil rights giant, remembered

Biographer Raymond Arsenault discusses the man who marched with King, then became the conscience of Congress

The Guardian - US · Jan 15, 2024

Babe Ruth, patron saint of the home run, turned the ball field into a church – and lived his own Catholic faith in the spotlight

“I’ve tried ‘em all, I really have,” Susan Sarandon’s character Annie Savoy says in the movie “Bull Durham.” But “the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.”

The Conversation · Oct 17, 2023

'Knowledge of self': How a key phrase from Islam became a pillar of hip-hop

I was 9 years old when Eric B. and Rakim’s “Paid in Full” dropped. I have vivid memories of the bass-laden track booming out of car stereos and hearing it on Black radio, like Kiss FM’s top eight at 8 p.m. countdown.

The Conversation · Aug 4, 2023

Why American culture fixates on the tragic image of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the most famous man behind the atomic bomb

J. Robert Oppenheimer’s triumph was his tragedy. Oppenheimer had many achievements in theoretical physics but is remembered as the so-called father of the atomic bomb. Under his directorship, scientists at Los Alamos Laboratory, where the bomb was designed and built, forever changed how people view the world, adding a new…

The Conversation · Aug 1, 2023