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Arts & Culture

How McDonald’s Got Its Golden Arches

How McDonald's Got its iconic Golden Arches.

Politics & History

San Gimignano’s Fascist Redesign

The politically-influenced redesign of the famed towers of San Gimigano.

City Hall Station in New York with a symmetrical tiled pattern on the arches and ceiling

Politics & History

Rediscovering the Guastavinos

Rediscovering the Gustavinos contributions to architecture.

Education & Society

Neighborhood Gardens: A Housing Project Born of Unbridled Optimism

Public housing was once thought of as being positive, radical, and hopeful.

Editors' Picks

Science & Technology

Convincing Peasants to Fly in the Soviet Union

With air-minded films, poems, and demonstrations, Soviet leaders sought to lift peasants out of their “backward” lives and into the world of the modern proletariat.

Politics & History

The Trouble with Reentry

Reentry of space junk in the 1970s forced First Nations communities into a reckoning with Cold War geopolitics and a burgeoning envirotechnical disaster.

Politics & History

Iran’s Protest Culture

A succession of authoritarian regimes birthed a strong tradition of collective action.

Arts & Culture

Tyler S. Sprague on the Intersection of Structure and Design

An interview with Tyler S. Sprague, a historian of the built environment whose work depends on multidisciplinarity and a deep knowledge of structure and materials.

Politics & History

How to be a Modern Autocrat

In the twenty-first century, dictators are less likely than their predecessors to use violence to suppress dissent, cultivating instead “informational autocracies.”

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