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It's easy to get caught in an ideological bubble when you're reading news online and from social media. Read Across the Aisle shows you what else is out there.
It's easy to get caught in an ideological bubble when you're reading news online and from social media. Read Across the Aisle shows you what else is out there.
Serenity now!
Call it a combination of bad luck and sheer doggedness.
Was the classic fairytale meant to be a metaphor for the Gilded Age?
Who runs the world? In these six societies: Girls.
The answer depends a lot on whether you bought your way into the job.
Notorious RBG can bench press 70 pounds.
Mistakes happen.
Some presidential firsts aren't so quaint.
Since George Washington’s first appointment, 112 people have served on the highest court in the land. With the recent death of Antonin Scalia, that number will soon rise to 113.
The job is newer than you might think.
Warren G. Harding was the first president with an official speechwriter, but even George Washington’s famous farewell address was prepared with the assistance of James Madison—five years before he delivered it.
The March 5, 1877 inauguration of Hayes was merely for show. Though the public didn't know it, he was already their president.
From drunk vice presidents to poisoned pigeons, anything can happen on Inauguration Day—and often does.
Thousands of onlookers lined the streets, watching as Roosevelt and a contingent of Rough Riders made their way to the U.S. Capitol.
Advocating for a son with cerebral palsy helped propel her into government work.
The modern presidential library is more than a roadside attraction.
As a tourism official, her father green-lighted the Las Vegas slogan “What happens here stays here.”
Our first president can also claim the only unanimous electoral college wins in history.
No election cycle would be complete without a debate over whether or not the Electoral College should be abolished.
There is a way to leave the United States without stepping out of Manhattan.
Yes, that Richard Nixon.
It beat out "adulting" and "coulrophobia" (fear of clowns) for the distinction.
Cash-strapped millennials aren’t the only ones who understand the value of a side hustle.