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All student debt in the US, visualized

And the US feared that they were falling behind. One of our greatest and most glaring deficiencies is the… America newsreels like this one stoked anxieties that the country was wasting its intellectual talents. So in 1958, President Eisenhower signed

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How Technicolor changed movies

You know this scene from The Wizard of Oz. It happens just after Dorothy croons in sepia-toned Kansas, Toto wags his tail, and the house gets caught in a tornado. She travels from a faded film strip to a Technicolor

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Impeachment is broken. Impeach Trump, anyway.

In 1788, three founding fathers made the case for the US constitution in a series of essays called “The Federalist Papers”. And if you want to understand why impeachment is broken today, it’s worth starting there. With what they thought

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How highways wrecked American cities

It’s hard to picture American cities without the highways running through their core, but highway removal projects, like this one in Boston, can give us a sense of how disruptive it was when the US built huge highways through the

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China’s trillion dollar plan to dominate global trade

There’s a new highway in Pakistan. And a new rail terminal in Kazakhstan. A sea port in Sri Lanka recently opened. As well as this bridge in rural Laos. What’s interesting is that they’re all part of one country’s project

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Why the US and Iran are fighting over this tiny waterway

This is the Stena Impero, a British oil tanker traveling through the Persian Gulf. On July 19th 2019, it was on its way to Saudi Arabia when it received a radio message from Iranian naval forces. Later, the Stena Impero

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The real reason Boeing’s new plane crashed twice

This is an airplane engine. It’s sitting in a field in Bishoftu, Ethiopia— part of the wreckage of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, which crashed on March 10, 2019. 157 people died. This was just a few months after another flight,

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The hunt for Forrest Fenn’s $2 million hidden treasure

This is the moment Estelle and I began to question our sanity. There’s definitely a promising cave down there. I don’t know if it’s a bear den or a mountain lion den. We’re right about here just outside of Yellowstone

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Fox News’ problem is a lot bigger than Bill O’Reilly

We begin tonight with the bombshell announcement from Fox News that their biggest star is out. This comes after several advertisers dropped his show due to allegations of sexual harassment. It is hard to overstate how stunning a development this

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Fox News’ 5 steps for handling a Trump scandal

and it should worry anyone who cares about trying to hold the president accountable. It’s been a hell of a week. First there was the Russia leak. The Washington Post reports that Trump reveals highly classified information during a White