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Taking it to the streets, then and now

This story is part of a WHYY series examining how the United States, four decades later, is st ...

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What do Americans see in British royalty?

Even though Americans dismissed the English king in 1776, they still, 250 years later, seem to have a residual affection for — and curiosity about — the British royals.

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Essay: Someone was watching over me on my first traffic stop for driving while black

There has been renewed attention to racial profiling and the epidemic of police brutality. This personal account of racial profiling has become one of many for me.

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Alt-right flyers posted throughout three Pennsylvania college campuses

More college campuses in Pennsylvania recently got a visit from a group identified as a white nationalist hate group by the Southern Pove ...

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Opioid use during pregnancy now a concern for health officials

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Vietnam: The war that was waged in my head

In the winter of my 13th year, I made a momentous life decision. I marched into my parents’ suburban kitchen and declared that when ...

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Across the country, alcohol use — and misuse — have gone up among older adults, researchers say. The new study in JAMA Psychia ...

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Five ways Hollywood looks at Vietnam [video]

As Ken Burns turns his documentary lens on Vietnam, WHYY’s Patrick Stoner examines five ways Hollywood has explored the war. ...

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 In this Saturday, April 1, 1972, file photo, Daniel Ellsberg, chief defendant in the Pentagon Papers case, addresses a crowd at the State Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. following an anti-war parade that ended at the Capitol. (AP Photo/Rusty Kennedy)
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Vietnam was my first war

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Op-ed: Hate mail from a ‘friend’

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First Person: Dorrell Green

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Delaware Symphony Orchestra launches ‘ambitious’ season in Wilmington

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An ignorant America endangers democracy

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