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Children with asthma respond to the movie executives who see them as weak people helped by magical inhalers.

The forest's unique ecosystem protects the world's largest carbon sink—the Earth's permafrost layer. But for how much longer?

The CDC guidance applies to areas with high coronavirus transmission rates.

Olympic athletes are divided into teams of nations. To Indigenous competitors, though, that can mean representing oppressive settler-colonial states.

The National Federation of the Blind was the first major group of its kind to be led by visually impaired people.

Far from ushering in a zero-waste world, the switch from returnables to recycling provided cover for the creation of ever more packaging trash.

OK Soda disappeared from the store shelves of the 1990s shortly after its debut. But did its wink-wink marketing to Gen X actually work?

Homeschooling has proved to be a valued alternative to the institutional racism often found in the classroom. But it offers something more, too.

The history of piracy illustrates a surprising connection to democratic Utopian radicalism—and, of course, stolen treasure.