International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women honors three sisters who were murdered by the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic.

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According to some political scientists, it's more about group identity than personal interests.

What are red flag laws? Could they have prevented the killing at Club Q?

Well-researched stories from The Atlantic, The Republic, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

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For many Swedish immigrants to the United States, coffee was a key to hospitality and a way to signal prosperity.

Cooperative space initiatives between non-US powers such as China and South America are under-explored in scholarship and misunderstood in popular politics.

Capitalizing on stereotypes earned Chinese-American practitioners patients, but it also helped keep them confined to the margins of American society.

The electric chair was promoted as civilized and at the same time imbued with the technological sublime, the mystery of electrical power harnessed by humans.