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Video games as interactive storytelling? Maybe not at first glance, but as Eric Hayot explains, the interplay between game and narrative is real.

Green-Wood cemetery in New York City is also a site of urban grassland management and restoration, an effort to mitigate its contributions to climate change.

How disabled people use dating apps, whether specific to their communit(ies) or not, can raise personal questions about how to present themselves.

Joke theft: it's a serious matter.

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From train robberies to organized retail theft to murder, are we really gripped by a crime wave?

The feminist movement of the 1970s worked to raise awareness of violence against women, but diverged on the role of law enforcement in fighting it.

The world’s first video game made its debut at the Westinghouse pavilion at the New York World's Fair in 1939. Read all about it!

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