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On September 28, 1920, baseball players Eddie Cicotte and Shoeless Joe Jackson testified in front of a [...]

Most places get names from, well, somewhere. Let’s just focus on some U.S. states, to make it easy. [...]

Jamie Dupree, pictured above is a political reporter. He got his start in the 1980s and by 1992 was covering [...]

1) “‘I had to guard an empty room’: the rise of the pointless job ” (The Guardian, 10 [...]

If you’re a farmer, chances are you have at least one tractor. As tools go, these motor vehicles are [...]

Every year, children in the United States (and elsewhere) write letters to Santa Claus. It’s an [...]

1) “Read This Story and Get Happier ” (The Cut/New York Magazine, 8 minutes, May 2018). The [...]

According to official estimates, there are about 77,000 homeless people living in New York City. The vast [...]

In the 1939 movie “The Wizard of Oz,” a tornado strikes a small town in Kansas. The cyclone catches the [...]