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An Asian man holds a volleyball on the court
Sports
Will the Chinese American sport ‘9-man’ have to change its strict heritage rules?
Arts, Culture & Media
Commentary: Craving Instant Patina
Arts, Culture & Media
Commentary: Culture’s Comfort Food
Arts, Culture & Media
Commentary: Operation Enduring Irony
Arts, Culture & Media
Commentary: Good Humor-less
Arts, Culture & Media
Commentary: Counting Culture
Arts, Culture & Media
Commentary: Edifying Oxymorons
Arts, Culture & Media
Commentary: The Po-Mo Name Game
Arts, Culture & Media
TV & The Law
Arts, Culture & Media
Commentary: Re-vamp, Re-use, Re-run
Arts, Culture & Media
Commentary: Just a $10 Word For Euphemism
Arts, Culture & Media
Commentary: Culture as Product
Arts, Culture & Media
Commentary: Tuning Out
Arts, Culture & Media
Commentary: Inspirational Irony
Korea's Godfather of Rock Shin Joong-hyun got his start as a teenage guitarist at the Yongsan Garrison in Seoul. Now the US military base is closing.
Culture
The US military’s Yongsan Garrison leaves a mixed legacy in Seoul
American and Nigerian flags fly next to each other in the center of Abuja August 24, 2000.
Culture
Don’t take being American for granted
Matthew Sullivan working on a prototype operating table | Suspended Animation, Boytan Beach, Florida, USA 2010
Culture
Here’s what it looks like to be frozen
Squanto as captured slave. One of the reconstructed scenes from a new exhibit in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Conflict
Native Americans get the chance to tell their side of the Pilgrim story
An image from footage of a long-lost film
Culture
New York’s MoMA debuts long-lost footage from the dawn of blacks in American film
People take part in the 69th Annual Columbus Day Parade in New York in 2013.
Justice
More and more cities are saying goodbye, Columbus
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Culture
How one photographer captures changing immigrant families
Aha Moment: Peanuts in Panama
Conflict & Justice
‘Law and the Multiverse’ Considers Superheroes, Legalities
Obama
Global Politics
Obama is still defensive about his foreign policy strategy, six years on
Arts, Culture & Media
Kenyan musician Sila creates a new superhero he can relate to — Super African!
Arts, Culture & Media
Kenyan musician Sila creates a new superhero he can relate to — Super African!
Sports
The NFL is moving the ball, but hasn’t yet scored, in China
Richard Blanco, America's fifth inaugural poet.
Arts, Culture & Media
Thanksgiving bridges cultures, but it’s not always pretty
"Mañana Means Forever" by Tim Z. Hernandez
Arts, Culture & Media
A novelist finds ‘the Mexican girl’ from Jack Kerouac’s book On the Road
Global Politics
Chinese youth applying for deportation deferral at slower-than-expected rate
Environment
DNA study finds first Americans arrived in waves
Business, Economics and Jobs
Target employee creates petition to protest store’s midnight opening on Black Friday
Global Politics
‘Illegal People’
Global Politics
Immigrants, race and skin color
‘Burka Avenger’ Cartoon Aimed at Empowering Pakistani Girls
Debunking the Corrupting Effects of Comic Books
Giving Thanks: Our Takeaway
The Simpsons at 500 Through the Lens of a Childhood in India
Takeaway Listeners Give Thanks
Top of the Hour: 42 Million Americans Will Travel on Thanksgiving, Morning Headlines
A Historical Tour of the Thanksgiving Table
Arts, Culture & Media
DC Comics Overhauls Superheroes
Alabama’s Eco-Rebels
Native American Ecological Wisdom: Part One of Two
US Immigration Debate
Living Native
The Living on Earth Almanac
The Walk
Arts, Culture & Media
Redesigning Uncle Sam
Arts, Culture & Media
The best books of 2010 for the gift-giving season
Sports
Turkey + football = Thanksgiving
Arts, Culture & Media
‘App-signment’ – your picture or sound of the year
Arts, Culture & Media
Thanksgiving dinner tips
Arts, Culture & Media
Takeouts: T-Day football, turkey tips
Conflict & Justice
Forty years after the occupation of Alcatraz
Lifestyle & Belief
Families: reducing stress at home for Thanksgiving
Business, Economics and Jobs
Prom Night: Taking the economy out for a spin
Business, Economics and Jobs
As the American dream is deferred, the global economy shifts
Arts, Culture & Media
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in times of economic crisis
Global Politics
In the week before Thanksgiving 1963, JFK died and LBJ began a social legacy