If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride.If turnips were swords, I’d have one at my side.If “ifs” and “ands” were pots and pans,There’d be no work for tink…

If convicted, he'll become a right-wing martyr. If he is freed, it's a message to others like him that prison won’t be in their future.

The comments didn't attract nearly as much attention as Santorum's recent invocation of...

Seven years on, the corporate bailouts of the late-Bush-early-Obama years remain deeply unpopular. Though Dodd-Frank was supposed to have killed it, the “too big to fail” designation, which allows…

"There's no sense in complaining!", "Your complaining to the wrong people", or "Your complaints will fall on deaf ears!". These are phrases I have sometimes thought, heard, or uttered throughout my life. Well at least a few of my ancestors felt that even in the deep south, during reconstruction,

Jennifer Lawrence is taking a stance against corruption in American democracy. The Oscar-winning actress, 28, stars in the short film Unbreaking America by RepresentUs, a leading anti-corruption group, to tackle systemic corruption in U.S. politics. Lawrence serves as a board member for the organization. “We are witnessing a total, political system failure in America,” the actress began. “If you’re anything like me, you may find yourself constantly overwhelmed by everything that’s wrong with

Author and renowned scholar Ibram Kendi's new book asks readers to examine their own relationship with race. NPR's Eric Deggans spoke with him about it.

In the developed world, these levels of gun violence are a uniquely American problem. Here’s why.

Then Prohibition ended, and the closet was born.

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A vocal minority still defend the incarceration of approximately 120,000 people of Japanese descent during World War II — two-thirds of whom were American citizens.

This quiz is not completely accurate, and it is just for fun. You might get an answer that isn't right, so please don't use it as your official level. Ask your gym or someone who knows what skills you need to be in the levels for. Remember, this quiz is just for fun and to laugh if I get the level completely wrong!!!!!

This is the American dream gone wrong.

Y'all, what in the lowest realm of hell is wrong with the leadership of the Republican National Convention? And how did they manage to start it off so

Read CNN’s Fast Facts about Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples’ Day, which are celebrated on the second Monday in October.

James Loewen's 1995 book explained how history textbooks got the story of America wrong. Now, in a new edition, Loewen champions critical thinking in the age of fake news.

Atlanta Race Riot (1906) When the Civil War ended, African-Americans in Atlanta began entering the realm of politics, establishing businesses and gaining notoriety as a

April 26, 1969: Walter Carlos' album Switched-On Bach reached Number 10 on the Billboard Albums chart. The 1968 album by composer by Wendy Carlos (released under her birth name Walter Carlos) seemed innocent enough at the time of its release, but it went on to have a seismic effect on music throughout the 1970s and beyond. (sign up to follow by email) The album is a collection of pieces by German composer Bach, performed on Robert Moog’s prototype synthesizer. Switched On Bach won three gongs at the 1970 Grammys and by June 1974, it had sold over one million copies. Read more: RNZ April 26, 1975: B.J. Thomas' "(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song" hit Number 1 in America. After “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head” became the first Hot 100 #1 of the ’70s, B. J. Thomas went on a successful run, scoring a bunch of big singles that straddled the line between country and adult contemporary and did well on both charts. BJ. Thomas But that run came to an end, and when he made “(Hey Won’t You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song,” it had been a few years since he’d been in the top 20. Thomas was also deep in the throes of addiction, blowing thousands every week on Valium, cocaine, and speed. Read more: Stereogum April 26, 1969: The Soundtrack to "Hair" was the new Number 1 album. Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado and music by Galt MacDermot. The work reflects the creators' observations of the hippie counterculture and sexual revolution of the late 1960s, and several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement. Read more: Wikipedia April 26, 1975: "Emma" by Hot Chocolate peaked at Number 8 on the Hot 100 chart. Hot Chocolate were a peculiar band. They were a hugely successful chart act that had hit singles over three decades, but their albums barely scraped into the top 30, unless they were greatest hits collections. Hot Chocolate They were best known for fluffy, hook-laden pop disco, but their back catalogue was packed with other stuff: music that was far weirder, darker and more intriguing. Errol Brown was a great singer, possessed of the ability to convey anguish with a chilling falsetto shriek, but it was a sound he rarely used: instead. Read more: The Guardian April 26, 1980: "Ride Like the Wind" by Christopher Cross peaks at Number 2 for four consecutive weeks on the US music chart. It’s a pretty well-known fact that songs written while on acid produce the best music we have. Which is how we were gifted with Christopher Cross’s “Ride Like the Wind,” a song about a criminal on the run to Mexico, written in 1979 immediately after the songwriter dropped some acid. Read more: Robot Butt Walter Carlos Switched-On Bach

The National Rifle Association has launched an attack on Australia's gun laws in the latest edition of its most militant gun rights publication, America's First Freedom.

Gawker is running a competition, tournament style, to see which accent will be crowned "America's Ugliest." In the running are 16 cities in the US, and...

What "Mrs. America" gets right and wrong about Bella Abzug's firing by Jimmy Carter and Phyllis Schlafly's hopes for a job in the Reagan administration.

Ice hockey is a popular sport for betting, with many professional and amateur leagues around the world. The most popular league for betting is the National Hockey League (NHL) in North America, which…

Enabling sustained minority rule at the national level is not a feature of our constitutional design, but a perversion of it.

A generation of students found out the hard way that archaeology isn't anywhere near as much fun as Indiana Jones made it look. Still, experts in the field do have their exciting, and even shocking, days at the office.

Groundbreaking Columbia law school study sets out in shocking detail the flaws that led to Carlos DeLuna's execution in 1989

Nestled on the banks of the Mississippi River, the forgotten city of Cahokia was once a bustling metropolis, the largest and most cosmopolitan hub north of Mexico, home to the Mississippian indigenous culture.

Over the past few years, Baby Boomers (1946 to 1964) have been getting a lot of grief from the generations that came after them, Gen X (1965 to 1980), Millenials (1981 to 1996), and now, Gen Z (1997 to 2012). Their grievances include environmental destruction, wealth hoarding, political polarization, and being judgemental when they don’t understand how hard it is for younger people to make it in America these days. Every Baby Boomer is different, so it's wrong to paint them all with a broad brush. But it’s undeniable that each generation shares common values, and some are bound to come into conflict. However, life in 2023 isn’t without its annoyances. Many that came about after the technological revolution put a phone in everyone’s hands and brought a whole new host of problems. Add the younger generations' hands-on approach to child rearing and penchant for outrage, and a lot of moden life has become insufferanble.

Joshua Sutcliffe, 27, who teaches maths at a state secondary school in Oxfordshire, said ‘Well done girls’ to the teenager and a friend when he spotted them working hard.

Whenever we search internationally for ideas for a modern social state, we always seem to end up looking in precisely the wrong place

For lots of black folks in the South, living amid emblems of the Old South involves some complicated mental gymnastics.

Nestled on the banks of the Mississippi River, the forgotten city of Cahokia was once a bustling metropolis, the largest and most cosmopolitan hub north of Mexico, home to the Mississippian indigenous culture.

America's war on science is widespread and well documented. From climate-change deniers to moon-landing doubters to those who claim there is a link been vaccination and autism. It's Anne Schuchat's job to take on this last group of misinformationists—and help the public understand the science of disease. As deputy director at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Schuchat has battled the anti-vaccer position on Capitol Hill. She has also helped tamp down the 2001 anthrax attacks; traveled to the front line of the SARS outbreak in 2009; sounded the yearly alarm about influenza, which can kill as many as 50,000 people in the U.S. each year; and consulted on a Hollywood film about her work as a disease detective. "The circumstances of how viruses or bacteria spread are kind of unbelievable sometimes. Some of the things that we see in public health are stranger than fiction."