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

The COVID-19 pandemic put food workers in danger of contracting infections, with few, if any, consequences for the industries' failures to protect them.

HBO's The Gilded Age has done its homework on Black History, creating a character based upon real life wealthy Black women of the time.

The Chicana feminist movement was initially met with resistance from within, and racism from without.

American oilman Lyman Stewart embodied the uniquely American paradoxes of what would become capitalist Christian fundamentalism and the prosperity gospel.

Prisons have been controversial since their beginnings in the late 1700s — why do they keep failing to live up to expectations?

How climate change is represented in popular media allows us to avoid the complex, interconnected roles humans have played to create it.