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306 episodes transcribedAmerica is just not that into you anymore, says historian Marci Shore. It's not us, it's them. The Yale professor blames the U.S. for the failed relat...
It might seem like the vast, turbulent ocean of information we call news has always existed, but that's not the case. Theatrical plays in Elizabethan...
It's not them, it's you. That's what fans of the cormorant argue, pointing out how people see the gangly aquatic bird all wrong. This common bird has...
Music is joy declares Daniel Chua. The renowned musicologist says music and joy have an ancient correlation, from Confucius to Saint Augustine and Bee...
There are just three ingredients in the recipe that could end constitutional democracy as we know it, according to scholar Peter L. Biro — fear, habit...
In 1859, an American shot a pig that belonged to the Hudson’s Bay Company. Suddenly, the U.S. and British Empire were on the brink of war once again....
More than ninety years ago, led by “Boomer” Harding, “Flat” Chase, and King Terrell, the Chatham Coloured All-Stars became the first all-Black team to...
The direction of the Cold War depended on more than the strategies of two superpowers. It also depended on psychological motivations — in particular,...
Historian Sergei Radchenko revisits the Cold War, focusing on what the idea of global power meant to the Soviet Kremlin. He argues that Soviet leaders...
When she began her line of work, Métis archeologist Kisha Supernant was sometimes called a 'grave robber.' With an eye to restorative justice, she was...
In the past decade, there has been one stable voting bloc: white evangelical Christians. Their support has been at a constant 80 per cent for Donald T...
The grave consequences of encoded discrimination in AI systems are happening now, it's not a future problem, warns MIT researcher Joy Buolamwini. She...
International law is clear: warring parties cannot kill civilians. It's a war crime. But there is one exception. An attacker can justify killing them...
More than 2,000 years ago, someone sat down and wrote a travel bucket list for the ancient world — suggesting must-see places that we now call The Sev...
On May 5, 1945, Canadian soldiers played a key role in the liberation of the Netherlands from the German forces. Almost 80 years later, a large group...
In the hour’s following her mother’s death, Martha Baillie undertook two rituals — preparing a death mask of her mother’s face, and washing her mother...
Sports journalist Brett Popplewell used to dread growing old. Until he befriended Dag Aabaye, an 83-year-old former stuntman and professional skier wh...
The U.S. crisis today is the result of a 40-year-old Republican ideology, historian Heather Cox Richardson calls "cowboy individualism." The true Amer...
We have a lot to thank horses for in our everyday lives, from the Hollywood motion picture, to life-saving vaccines for diphtheria and tetanus, to a s...
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