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• Guns N' Roses vs Nirvana: the 1992 MTV VMAs backstage story, in full
• jackie chan's real name isnt chan — secret family, bruce lee, eyelid surgery
• Turkish nationalists and the great wall: my ancestors werent born yet
• india's yearly UN vote myth: the veto machine that never voted
• why heretics get treated worse than heathens (the rule that never died)
• study in big booty, america's weird beauty standard
• Western nudes were doll-like — until Courbet's L'Origine du monde (1866)
• The Hidden Messages in Water and The Secret: Pseudoscience That Outsold Science
• Electoral Populism and the Politician's China Card
• The Bundle of Sticks: One Fable, Half a Dozen Civilizations
• Chickens, Sparrows and Penises: Why the World's Slang Converged on Birds
• One Big Beautiful Bill: The Complete Story of Trump and Musk's Year of War and Peace
• Che Guevara: The Diary the CIA Almost Kept, and the Lies That Couldn't Kill an Ideal
• America's WASP Elite and the Jewish Scapegoat
• Never Fuck a Horse: A (Mostly) Academic History of the Oldest Taboo
• What Really Drives Political Polarization in America: Beyond Identity Politics
• Mass Shooters and the Great Replacement: From a 1915 Film to the Courtroom
• India's farmers are back at the barricades — 70 years of land politics in one protest
• Who shapes American politics? A field guide to the interest groups
• US national debt just hit $40 trillion — who actually owns it?