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The Trump administration’s decision to relax nutrition standards for school lunches is the latest development in a century-long fight.

If private prisons make their profit from criminal society, its goes against business sense to reduce criminality.

Online shopping drastically reduces the significance of physical stores. Where did the physical retail model come from to begin with?

To become a Hollywood star and icon, Rita Hayworth had to transcend not just her waistline or her hairline, but her own ethnicity.

In February 1910, Virginia Woolf, her brother, and some and friends pulled a prank known to history as the Dreadnought Hoax.

Research shows that negative messaging is not the most effective way forward.

“What is femininity anyway?” Jenner writes in her new book, The Secrets of My Life. Perhaps the famous trans woman Christine Jorgensen knew.

Noted novelist and screenwriter Marguerite Duras on how her fictional mothers are all really her own (complicated, difficult, inimitable) mother.

Anne Shirley, created almost 100 years ago, has been reimagined countless times. Why do we still love Lucy Maud Montgomery's plucky orphan?