North Carolina isn’t quite First in Freedom. But over the past decade and a half, we’ve taken tremendous strides in the right direction.

Britain’s role as a slave-trading and slave owning nation is rarely out of the news these days. Fanciful claims for trillions ...

John Prine wrote his first two songs, “Sour Grapes” and “The Frying Pan,” when he was 14. Even at that young age, Prine could channel humor and heartbreak just like his heroes Hank Williams and Roger ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Capitol/UMe There’s another hefty John Lennon box set on its way. After last year’s Mind ...

Dr. Bell is a professor of history at Princeton. Will artificial intelligence bring about an intellectual revolution as profound as the Enlightenment? Enthusiasts like to make this claim, and even use ...

Source: John Locke's Kit-cat portrait by Godfrey Kneller, National Portrait Gallery, London The English philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) played a vital role in promoting the ideals of the ...

Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or ...

SEVERAL MONTHS AGO, a man walked into Twice Sold Tales, the charmingly overstuffed secondhand bookstore in Ballard, and got to chatting with the guy behind the till — John MacBeath Watkins, who has co ...

Eric Warner is a Journalist and Multimedia Producer based in New England with over seven years of experience producing stories for multiple print, online, radio, and video publications. Eric has been ...