When radio was king, many outlets chose to cease broadcasting Father Charles Coughlin's anti-Semitic sermons

Creators say they hope the work encourages people to build bridges between communities

How the right made the word "Orwellian" an empty cliché.

The height of sophistication — and the freezer aisle — is returning after 30 years

It is Tokyo’s fate to stage the world’s largest sporting event a year later than planned, at a time of global economic uncertainty and amid a pandemic that will be far from over on July 23. Is it really ready?

The fried chicken sandwich wars sparked by Popeyes in 2019 are still clucking along two years later.

India's "plantain man" has traveled widely to build a collection of unusual varieties.

The 19th-century whale hunt was a brutal business, awash with blubber, blood, and the cruel destruction of life. But between the frantic calls of “there she blows!”, there was plenty of time for creation too. Jessica Boyall explores the rich vein of illustration running through the logbooks and journals of Nantucket whalers.

Republicans and Democrats in North Carolina are locked in a battle over which party inherits the shame of Jim Crow.

Shoppers tell of shock at unexpected bills for VAT or customs declarations as some retailers stop shipping to continent

About 200 million women in the country are illiterate. But voice memo and image-sharing apps make it easier to connect, communicate, and run businesses.

Until 2021, Americans had confronted federal authority with armed aggression just four times.

A thriving graffiti culture has been brewing for decades in Beijing, featuring Chinese characters, animals of the zodiac ... and complaints about the price of pork

Mountains of waste from Johannesburg’s omnipresent gold industry may be ruining the health of nearby residents.

Recent investigations reveal vast factories inside mass internment camps.

Last month Techdirt wrote about some ridiculous scaremongering from Elsevier against Sci-Hub, which the publisher claimed was a "security risk". Sci-Hub, with its 85 million academic papers, is an example of what are sometimes termed...

Scientists warn of threat of nuclear contamination from work on giant E40 waterway linking Baltic to the Black Sea

“Himalaya: A Human History,” by Ed Douglas, a journalist and climber, unfolds the story of the world’s highest mountain range and its equally outsize impact on mankind.

Reuben Schoots is building a mechanical watch entirely by hand — a feat accomplished only by a handful of people in the past century. But he is learning more than just a lost craft.

How has a new coronavirus variant become the most common form of the virus in parts of England?