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Meet Doc Savage, the Most Famous Superhero You’ve Never Heard Of

To many, he is the greatest superhero to ever appear in comics, radio, television and film. Today he’s largely forgotten.

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New Hi-Res Images from the Apollo Missions

More than 8,400 super high-resolution images from the Apollo missions have been released on Flickr.

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Eat & Drink

How to Make Irish Coffee

Irish Coffee has a history on the Left Coast.

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Change

Who Won the Debate? We Did.

According to every poll, Bernie Sanders won the Democratic Party’s first debate. But the real winners weren’t standing onstage.

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Lessons from The American Anti-Slavery Almanac

The American Anti-Slavery Almanac was an attempt to bring awareness about slavery to nineteenth-century America.

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How the South Drives American Wages Down

A closer look at how the Southern slave labor system was rebooted and rolled out to the rest of America.

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See: A Brief History of the Mass Incarceration of Black Americans

One in every three African American men will be sent to prison in their lifetime.

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What Do 800-Year-Old Magna Carta & Black Lives Matter Have in Common?

The Magna Carta is considered the foundation democracy and human rights. What’s the Great Charter’s connection to BlackLivesMatter?

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Why the Silence of Moderate Conservatives is Dangerous for Race Relations

The persistence of racism rests in no small part on the inability of moderate conservatives to recognize how it continues to affect the life chances of blacks.

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What Happened to the Moral Center of American Capitalism?

An economy depends on public morality; shared standards about what is impermissible.