Our third runner-up in the 2022 Great American Fiction Contest: At 60, Evelyn is stuck in the past. Is it too late to open her heart?
In the news for the week ending January 21, 2022, are a giant asteroid, soupy candles, a copyright conundrum, dog photos, and more.
The earliest car owners soon discovered they could make money helping strangers get to their destinations.
In 1891, a Senate filibuster of a federal elections bill ended efforts to ensure the civil rights of Black Americans for decades.
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On January 19, 1972, Sandy Koufax was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Ten years earlier, the Post profiled the left-hander, whose pitches were fast, but unpredictable.
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In her transformative essay from 1967, Joan Didion takes a closer look at the dark side of the Haight-Ashbury counterculture during the Summer of Love.
While the filibuster started as a measure to protect the voices of a minority, more recently it has been used in quite literally the opposite way: to protect entrenched and powerful forces.
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Since the events at the Capitol on January 6, there has been a lot of discussion of the terms sedition, insurrection, and treason. But what are the legal definitions of these three acts, and how are they different from one another?
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The survival of The Saturday Evening Post hinged on an unexpected decision from an Indianapolis businessman.
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These mid-1950s cartoons chronicle a time when fathers were exiled to the waiting room with their newspapers and cigarettes.
Before Expedia, Priceline, and Airbnb, actual human beings helped you plan your trip (and they usually answered the phone)!
