Told

The terrifying, censored coverage of the 1918 Spanish flu.

When editors believed their magazines could change lives.

Dorothy Thompson finds a room of her own.

Bernie Sanders is a Democratic Socialist, a potential problem for the presidential candidate. A Cold War campaign to link American-ness and capitalism helped create popular distrust of socialism.

It took a while for pundits and other observers to truly understand the power of the new platform.

The New Hampshire returns tell us a lot about the leading candidates.

On women's bodies and the power of names.

In the 1950s, 'coming out' meant quietly acknowledging one's sexual orientation. Today, the term is used by a broad array of social movements.

Our future might look much like our past, with pills as a major part of abortion access—and an obsessive target for abortion opponents.

In the 1960s, the precursor to PBS explored the burgeoning conservative movement, providing a remarkable window into the history of conservatism.

The poorly crafted disease metaphor often accompanies a bad outcome.

Dunmore’s Proclamation was an information document, capitalizing on the institution of slavery, designed to influence the population.

The newspaper standby still rivets our attention a century later.

It’s 2020 — do you know where your content is?

The only debate arrangement that everyone could agree to 60 years ago remains in place today – the game show format.

This year, Merriam-Webster added a new definition to the word “they”: “used to refer to a single person whose gender identity is nonbinary.”

The next 9/11 never came. Instead, we got Sandy Hook, and Las Vegas, and Parkland…

Tracing the evolution and challenges of fact-checking in journalism.

In Depression-era San Antonio, polarized portraits of Mexicans appealed to the biases of readers.

John Huston's 1945 movie The Battle of San Pietro presents itself as a war documentary, but contains staged scenes. What should we make of it?

A professor explains the trauma of encountering "an idea disguised as a word."

It happens every year.

When Vice President Spiro Agnew gave a speech in 1969 bashing the press, he fired some of the first shots in a culture war that persists to this day.

Declassified government documents show how both sides of the Iron Curtain worked to have the projects canned.

Celebrating its 50th anniversary, the beloved children’s television show was shaped by the African-American communities in Harlem and beyond.

“A brand mascot that jumped off the cereal box”: a TV critic explains the multimedia character Trump created.

How the alienated margins arrived at the center of American politics.

What I saw as the editor of “The Art of the Deal,” the book that made the future President millions of dollars and turned him into a national figure.

Wherever there has been power, there has been a struggle for narrative control.

Fox News shields President Trump, but his love for their conspiracies might bring him down.