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The tacky practice of using 9/11 to market consumer goods backfires yet again

Each year, companies across the United States employ remarkably tone-deaf marketing strategies that somehow reference 9/11.

Elaine Harmon, Female WWII Pilot, Will Finally Be Laid to Rest at Arlington

It took an act of Congress, but World War II pilot Elaine Harmon is finally being laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.

Capitol rotunda reopens to visitors after months of renovations

The great rotunda reopened after a 13-month, $97 million project to save the Capitol Dome.

Proposed textbook ‘dripping in racism,’ state board member says

A group of educators and students called on the State Board of Education to keep a controversial Mexican American studies textbook out of Texas classrooms.

Long-Lost 9/11 Flag, an Enduring Mystery, Will Go on View at Museum

The flag, which was featured in a famous photograph of ground zero and disappeared soon after the attack, will again become a prominent part of Lower Manhattan.

U.S. bombs dropped decades ago in Laos still killing locals

A U.S. secret operation in Laos that ended 43 years ago is still creating fresh wounds.

Donald Trump’s history at church

For all that has been written about Mr. Trump, relatively little attention has been paid to the time he spent at Marble Collegiate Church and his relationship with the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale.

He Denied Blacks Citizenship. Now a City Is Deciding His Statue’s Fate.

Frederick, Md., is debating how to remove a bronze bust of Roger Brooke Taney, the Supreme Court chief justice who wrote the 1857 Dred Scott decision.

Clinton's Emailgate and the Long History of Missing Documents

Congress passed the Presidential Records Act of 1978, mandating that presidents and their staff could no longer arbitrarily deem what constituted personal papers. But they continued to do so.

Georgetown’s Plan Spurs Hopes for a Shift in How Universities Confront Ties to Slavery

No other university has given descendants of its slaves legacy status in the admission process.

Sociologist: The Republican Party’s civil war actually began decades ago

by Josh Pacewicz

"My research showed that the collapse of traditional business associations was a turning point in the party’s shift."

Georgetown Will Give Admissions Preferences to Descendants of Slaves It Sold

In an effort to atone for its profit off the sale of 272 slaves almost two centuries ago, Georgetown University will, among other things, give preferential treatment in the admissions process to descendants of those slaves.

CIA director misled FBI about how agency spied on Pentagon Papers leaker

CIA Director Richard Helms misled the FBI in June 1972 to cover up his agency's role in helping to smear the reputation of Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked a secret history of the Vietnam War to the press, a newly released CIA document shows.

Slavery and the National Anthem: The Surprising History Behind Colin Kaepernick's Protest

"I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag. I know that I am a black man in a white world." - Jackie Robinson

‘Demeaning’ Slavery Education Game No Longer Part of Georgia School Lesson Plan

A Georgia school is under fire after one of its teachers introduced her students to a “demeaning” slavery education game about the Underground Railroad.

Miami’s Watergate mystery man at heart of newly revealed CIA report

A newly released report sheds light on suspicions surrounding Miamian Eugenio Martinez’s role in the Watergate scandal that toppled President Richard Nixon.

In Reaction to Zika Outbreak, Echoes of Polio

New York’s polio epidemic a century ago had many of the problems found in the response to Zika: false rumors, ethnic prejudice and ineffective measures.

The Anthropocene epoch: scientists declare dawn of human-influenced age

Experts say human impact on Earth so profound that Holocene must give way to epoch defined by nuclear tests, plastic pollution and domesticated chicken

‘No Vacancies’ for Blacks: How Donald Trump Got His Start, and Was First Accused of Bias

As Mr. Trump assumed an increasing role in his father’s business, the company’s practice of turning away potential black tenants was painstakingly documented.

Minorities try to show Yale freshmen what it's like to have a residential college named after John C. Calhoun

They taped Osama bin Laden's name over the name of the college.