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An estimated 5.6 million Americans live with Alzheimer’s today. Another 100,000 are living with ALS—or Lou Gehrig’s disease. Lisa Genova

Mikhail Gorbachev is one of the most important figures of the 20th century. A child of the Soviet Union, and

It is almost taken for granted that technology is changing America. Whether we’re talking about job losses, election meddling, or

The British colonies in the New World, and later the United States, were built on land taken from native populations.

The super-heated rhetoric over immigration and border security in the United States today is part of a long tradition of

In April 2014, officials in Flint, Michigan, switched the source of the city’s water from the Detroit water supply to

Local journalism is one of the key-stones of American democracy. There’s no substitute for an experienced, local reporter—not just to

America’s war in Afghanistan is the longest war in the history of the United States. Katherine A. Brown served on

In 2003, the United States military unleashed a campaign the press had pre-christened “Shock and Awe,” the dominant and overwhelming