For years, historians have blamed King Leopold of Belgium. But did they fall for Allied propaganda?
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Posted inBooks, Crime, History, Story
Monopoly vs. the Magic Cape
Trust busting is a great idea. But would it be enough?
Posted inBusiness, Current Events, Story
Nurses, Unite!
What nurses’ unions can teach the Democratic Party.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Nonfiction, Quotes
What Happened to eBay?
I haven’t peeked at eBay in years, and apparently I’m not the only one who’s forgotten it exists.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Harnessing His Superpowers for Peace in the Middle East
As an 8-year-old with OCD, Howard Lovy hoped his magical thinking might persuade God to end the Yom Kippur War.
Posted inBooks, Culture, Nonfiction, Story
The Daughter as Detective
A bibliophile tries to understand her father through his favorite Swedish mystery books.
Posted inBooks, Culture, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
“Our cultures are not dead and our civilizations have not been destroyed. Our present tense is evolving as rapidly and creatively as everyone else’s.”
Posted ininvestigations, Nonfiction, Story
The Lost Genocide
Why the United Nations may never be able to prosecute the Rohingya genocide.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
To Heil, or Not To Heil, When Traveling in the Third Reich
One of the first decisions any tourist had to make when crossing the German border in the mid-1930s was whether or not to “Heil Hitler.”
Posted inNonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
The Wheel, the Woman, and the Human Body
How the newly evolved bicycle helped liberate women and modernize America’s concept of fitness.
