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This summer’s big blockbuster, Superman, marks the latest installment of the Man of Steel — a character whose identity has ...

Vague phrasing in the state’s Revolutionary-era Constitution enfranchised women who met specific property requirements. A ...

To manufacture thousands of airplanes for its World War I allies, the United States would fell acres of spruce.

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Ball, a free man of color, opened a one-room photo studio in Cincinnati in 1845, but the business soon folded. He honed his ...

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Michael Schaffer is a senior editor and columnist at POLITICO Magazine. He has covered national and local politics for over 20 years and spent seven years as editor-in-chief of the Washingtonian. His ...

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Security is tighter than ever at the Allen & Company summit—“literally the dumbest thing in the world,” says Fox’s Charlie ...

The company, owned by General Motors, discovered that a terribly toxic and volatile chemical called tetraethyl lead changed the way gasoline burned in the extreme temperatures and pressures created by ...

At which, the MAGA cult, inside and outside government, goes completely bananas. Now it appears that the upper echelons of ...