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The Arctic Feud That Divided America

By Darrell Hartman

The History Behind SAG and the WGA Strikes

By Megan McCluskey

Sometimes Writers Have to Take Sides

By Sarah Watling

The History Behind Kamala Harris Matching the 191-Year-Old Record for Tiebreaking Votes

By Melissa August
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America Is Failing in the Present While Conservatives Try to Rewrite the Past

The real problem isn't "woke education" but that young Americans are experiencing cascading national crises

By Conor P. Williams

The Story Behind TIME's 1971 'Jesus Revolution' Cover

The surge in young people adopting the Christian faith in the '70s was recently dramatized in a movie with the same title.

By Belinda Luscombe

America's Founding Was a Marriage of Inconvenience

The American Founders united in 1776 with the guns of civil war pointing at their backs

By Eli Merritt

The Ambitions of the Civil Rights Movement Went Far Beyond Affirmative Action

The demands of the civil rights movement went beyond affirmative action. We should find inspiration in their goals today

By Jerome Karabel

The True History of 'Custer's Last Stand'

Why we've gotten 'Custer's Last Stand' wrong for 150 years.

By Olivia B. Waxman

The History of the Women’s World Cup

From how it started to who has scored the most goals, here are answers to some questions you may have about the much-awaited sports event.

By Chad de Guzman

All 5 People Aboard Titan Sub Believed to Be Dead

Five major pieces of debris, including the nose cone and pressure hull, were identified as the remains of the submersible.

By Anna Gordon , Ayesha Javed , Chad de Guzman and Solcyre Burga

Did Slavery in the U.S. End on Juneteenth?

Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 when enslaved men and women in Texas found out they were free. But liberation didn't arrive in one day.

By Olivia B. Waxman

The Revolutionary Power of Girl Talk

Mattie Kahn explores how conversations between women shaped America's feminist movements.

By Mattie Kahn

Learning to Tell My Mother's War Story

Novelist Luis Alberto Urrea on tracing his mother's journey through Europe during World War 2

By Luis Alberto Urrea

Remembering Anne Frank’s Last Birthday Party

Hannah Pick-Goslar describes attending her childhood friend's 13th birthday party in Amsterdam.

By Hannah Pick-Goslar

How Pence's 2024 Campaign Makes History

Pence is only the third Vice President to run against the President he served under in US history.

By Olivia B. Waxman

Try 10 AI-Generated News Quizzes From TIME

See if you can outsmart the model, and learn how TIME used ChatGPT technology and the magazine's archives to generate trivia.

By Chris Wilson and Isu Shrestha

For Most of U.S. History We've Had Both Gun Rights and Gun Regulations

From the Bowie knife to the Tommy Gun, the U.S. has long regulated weapons while preserving gun rights. What's gone wrong?

By Robert J. Spitzer

Anne Frank's Best Friend's Memoir Reveals New Details About Their Childhood

'My Friend Anne Frank' by Hannah Pick-Goslar comes out on June 6.

By Olivia B. Waxman

The First Congressman to Come Out as Gay

Rep. Gerry Studds came out 40 years ago with a speech on the House floor. Rep. Barney Frank said it affected his own coming out.

By Olivia B. Waxman
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