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Why Kids Need to Learn About Lynching
The new documentary 'An Outrage' visits lynching sites in six Southern states to explore one of the most brutal chapters in America's dirty past – and its connections to modern racism and police brutality.
I Met the Rappers Trying to Legitimise Hick-Hop and One of Them Licked Me
Country and rap have more in common than most realize
Photos from a Perpetual Road Trip Across America
Naomi Harris spent the better part of a year capturing America with a point-and-shoot film camera.
When the Cops Take Your Urine By Force
When police want a sample, they can do it the easy way, or they can do it the hard way.
What Makes a Shooting a Mass Shooting?
When four or more people get shot, even if no one dies, that's a mass shooting—and we should call it one.
What Parents Are Teaching Their Kids About Terrorism
Amid a deluge of terrorist attacks abroad and mass shootings at home, American parents are doing what they can to keep their kids safe without inciting panic.
What It's Like to Get Exonerated of Murder After 21 Years in Prison
Relief, gratitude, paranoia, and keeping a butcher's knife under your pillow.
A Brief History of Donald Trump and the Mafia
In the 1980s, the budding real estate mogul had a soft spot for wise guys.
A Professional Stoner Explains How to Smoke Pot Properly in 2016
As marijuana goes mainstream, our resident expert David Bienenstock offers some advice on how to keep up.
Donald Trump and the Long History of American Politics Turning Violent
Trump's rhetoric and the violent acts of some supporters have alarmed many, but America's past is full of political and electoral savagery.
Why America Is Still Obsessed with OJ Simpson
His 1995 murder trial was all about race, sex, and policing—issues that haven't exactly disappeared from the national radar.
How Rikers Island Became the Most Notorious Jail in America
From its origins as an island owned by a slaver to its more recent history of brutality and scandal, Rikers has always been tainted by controversy.