Five interesting family trees, from the media you consume to life in the ocean.
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Henry Ford’s Failed Amazonian Suburb
An excerpt from This Land is My Land: A graphic history of big dreams, micronations, and self-made states.
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20 Years Later, Columbine Is The Spectacle the Shooters Wanted (2019)
Searching for meaning in the shooters’ infamous “basement tapes.”
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Who Wants to Live Forever?
Silicon Valley tries to disrupt death.
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We’ve Seen This All Before
Our recent actions at the border are nothing new – America has been doing this to immigrants for generations.
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Dark Arts: How Cambridge Analytica Used Facebook to Find Out Who You Are
How a Facebook quiz you took in 2014 resulted in your data in the hands of people like Steve Bannon.
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Socialism: As American As Apple Pie
After a long exile, Socialism is re-entering the mainstream.
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They’ve Always Been Watching Us
From COINTELPRO to the NSA, the US Government has been keeping a close watch on the American Left for a long time.
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Afghanistan’s Long War
(From 2017) The war in Afghanistan is the US’s longest ever. But the conflict there is decades older.
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ISIS And The Middle East’s Vanishing Religious Minorities
One of the most religiously diverse places on Earth is undergoing a massive shift.
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