Dragged down by an unpopular president, Republicans are bracing for a midterm trouncing

As Americans tire of Donald Trump, a Democratic midterm ‘tsunami’ could sweep the GOP out of power ...

Why the architect of Indiana football’s defense was destined for this moment

Indiana football’s defensive mastermind has always been obsessed with football. His passion helped the Hoosiers reach the top ...
Knowridge Science Report

Why heart attack deaths spike during the holidays

Several studies confirm that more people die from heart problems during the holidays than at any other time of the year. One ...

Will we tell the American story, or just the founders’ fairy tales?

Beware of myth as we approach the nation's 250th year. The true threat to America has always been a white supremacist ...

Texas is overhauling what students will learn in social studies and history. Here's what to know

The social studies rewrite has become a thorny political process, with officials clashing over the portrayal of slavery, ...
Opinion

John T. Shaw: Nancy Pelosi has distinguished herself as a history-making stateswoman

Nancy Pelosi, a Democratic congresswoman from California and former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, has inhabited the rarefied worlds of both formidable politician and history-making ...
Smithsonian Magazine

What Five Objects Can Tell Us About the Life of Filipino Americans in the Early 20th Century

This steamer trunk formerly belonged to Anastacio Atig Omandam, a worker who arrived in Honolulu from the Philippine province ...

The Real Reason Golden Ages Collapse—and How the U.S. Can Avoid It

His book, Peak Human: What We Can Learn from History's Greatest Civilizations, looks at the "golden ages" of Ancient Athens, ...

How the NIH became the backbone of American medical research and a major driver of innovation and economic growth

As a young medical student in 1975, I walked into a basement lab at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, ...