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Families turned to habeas corpus to recover enlisted sons, forcing a constitutional showdown over military power.

Why do power ballads still resonate? A look at the emotional formulas behind pop’s biggest ballads.

From Mexico City fan conventions to Thai TV dramas, Japanese queer media culture is evolving in unexpected ways.

An expansive digital archive captures how journalists, satirists, and tabloids documented revolutionary Iran in real time.

Long before chatbots, fiction grappled with rule-bound intelligence, exploring what it means to build and rely on thinking machines.

New preservation methods transformed animal remains into persuasive displays that circulated widely in museums and popular culture.

First impressions shape outcomes before a word is spoken—and research shows those snap judgments are far from random.

Beneath a familiar flavor lies a history of conquest, forced labor, and cultural upheaval in Indonesia’s Banda Islands.

For centuries, a mysterious community in southwestern Europe endured extreme discrimination with no clear cause.

Competing expeditions to the North Pole redefined exploration in the early age of aviation.