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A journey into the glittering, surreal heart of twenty-first-century Russia, where even dictatorship is a reality show “A gripping and unsettling a...

In 1991, Dr. Lorraine Monroe founded the Frederick Douglass Academy, a public school in Harlem, in the belief that caring instructors, a discipline...

Few books have caused as big a stir as John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, when it was published in April 1939. By May, it was the nation's numbe...

This unique tie-in to the major motion picture Oceans -- coming this April from Disney & National Geographic -- explores the health of our ocea...

The 2016 Election, which altered American political history, was not decided by the Russians or in Ukraine or by Steve Bannon. The event that broke...

“A maddening, essential study in misinformation, jingoism, bad intelligence, and other hallmarks of the recent American past.”—Kirkus (starred revi...

In 1950, a diagnosis of cancer was all but a death sentence. Mortality rates only got worse, and as late as 1986, an article in the New England Jou...

The inside story of the Super Bowl champion 1986 Giants, the extraordinary friendships that resulted--and stunning revelations about the hardships ...

The inside story of the Super Bowl champion 1986 Giants, the extraordinary friendships that resulted--and stunning revelations about the hardships ...

From her dorm room at Princeton University, twenty-one-year-old college senior Wendy Kopp decided to launch a movement to improve public education ...

This critical historical exploration shows a portrait of the British Empire at both the peak of its global reach—and the moment it began to topple....

One Hundred Victories is a portrait of how -- after a decade of intensive combat operations -- special operations forces have become the go-to forc...

By the time most Americans see the presidential candidates on the campaign trail, they are practiced performers surrounded by a platoon of staffers...

In a Winners Take All meets This Town narrative, a New York Times bestselling author tells the story of the creation of a massive tax break, in wh...

In the glamorous, ultra-competitive world of figure skating, Katarina Witt is a living legend. She has won more titles than anyone else before her ...

George Soros's The Crisis of Global Capitalism became an international bestseller and an instant classic; a must read for anyone concerned with the...

Dorothy Height marched at civil rights rallies, sat through tense White House meetings, and witnessed every major victory in the struggle for racia...

"For decades, the United States ran covert operations into Tibet in an attempt to help Tibetan exiles take back their country from the Chinese. The...

The finance sector of Western economies is too large and attracts too many of the smartest college graduates. Financialization over the past three ...

The finance sector of Western economies is too large and attracts too many of the smartest college graduates. Financialization over the past three ...

In Others Unknown, Stephen Jones, Timothy McVeigh's lawyer in his trial for the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Office Building in Oklahoma City, provid...

Maggie and John Anderson were successful African American professionals raising two daughters in a tony suburb of Chicago. But they felt uneasy ove...

Two of Russia’s most prominent investigative journalists tell the "gripping" (Foreign Policy) story of how the hopes of their generation of optimis...

In this sweeping work of science and history, the renowned climate scientist and author of The New Climate War shows us the conditions on Earth tha...