In 2018, most Republicans agreed: Americans should be able to vote early or absentee without having to give a reason. Fifty-seven percent of them said so.

They were erasing slavery. Erasing civil rights. Erasing the history of what was done to Indigenous peoples. Erasing climate science. Quietly, methodically, at hundreds of national park sites across the country. Pulling displays, altering exhibits, rewriting what millions of Americans would see when they visited the places where history actually happened.

More than 160 years after the last enslaved Americans were told they were free, 17 states still haven't made that day a paid holiday. And at least one governor has quietly chosen to stop marking it at all.

She was thirty-two years old, had a PhD in physics, and was told her whole life that space belonged to someone else.

They are already here — working, raising families, paying taxes, living legally in the United States. Under a new Trump administration guidance memo, they may soon be forced to leave the country just to apply for the permanent residence they've already earned.

They had already served their country for decades before anyone thought to give them a star.

He made a promise. You can check it against your own wallet.

Donald Trump ran on one economic message above all others: he would bring your costs down. That promise is now two years old. The receipts are in.

Gas prices are surging — and while Americans feel it at the pump every single day, much of the world has already been building its way out of this dependence.

Nobody thought they could win. They had been told, for decades, that the answer was always going to be no.

Two-thirds of Americans say inflation is a very big problem — and for most working families, that feeling is backed up by the numbers.

They didn't storm a palace. They cast ballots, filled the streets, and refused to stop until a monarchy that had stood for 240 years fell.

Republicans just tried to slip $1 billion for a White House ballroom renovation into a $72 billion immigration enforcement package. The Senate's rulekeeper — a nonpartisan official called the parliamentarian — caught it and blocked it. Republicans are already revising the bill to try again.

One-in-five Americans now believe that the most essential trait of a "good news consumer" is a healthy sense of skepticism and the ability to spot propaganda. In an environment cluttered with AI-generated falsehoods and deliberate disinformation from those in power, people are increasingly viewing their own discernment as a primary defense. This is the reality of modern civic life: the burden of truth has shifted from the broadcaster to the individual.

They were carrying textbooks when the soldiers opened fire. Four students at Trisakti University in Jakarta were killed on May 12, 1998. Nine days later, the man who had ruled Indonesia for 32 years was gone.

Sarah Paul was fighting for her teenage daughter — standing up, speaking up, refusing to let her fall — when the memory surfaced.

Last year, 44,447 Americans lost their lives to gun-related injuries, a staggering toll that translates to dozens of empty chairs at kitchen tables every single day. While the total has dipped slightly from recent peaks, it remains the fifth-highest number on record since 1968, cementing the reality that gun violence is a persistent national epidemic.

Thick grey smoke choked the air inside the Greyhound bus as shards of glass rained down on the seats. Outside, a mob of white supremacists held the doors shut, intending for the passengers to burn alive. These men and women were not soldiers; they were students and clergy who believed that a law on the books meant nothing if it wasn't enforced on the ground.

It was supposed to be his goodbye video. A 30-second plea, filmed late at night, before he closed the doors on the dream he'd built with his savings and his graduation money.

Nearly half of Americans believe their political system must fundamentally change — and don't believe it ever will.

Imagine a kitchen in Paris where the air smells of roasted chicken and the walls are covered in original Picassos. Two women sat at the center of the world's most influential artistic salon, quietly rewriting the rules of what a family could look like while the rest of the world looked the other way.