How North Americans’ lust for tropical pets drives a tragic trade in smuggled birds.
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The Mystique of Mystique
From our POWER issue – “Fluid.”
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More Fraudulent Than a Speeding Locomotive
How the transcontinental railroad’s construction was the biggest scam of the gilded age.
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The Homophobic Hysteria of the Lavender Scare
Despite a thriving queer community in Washington, the 1950s State Department fired gay and lesbian workers en masse.
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The Life of Gad Beck: Gay. Jewish. Nazi Fighter.
Gad was just ten when the Nazis seized power, and spent the war providing for Jews living underground in Berlin.
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Drag Balls of the Civil War
Queerness has always existed—even on the Civil War battlefield.
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