Historically, U.S. tariffs were a primary source of government revenue until 1913 but were economically unfair to the working class as their costs were passed on to consumers. Modern attempts to reintroduce tariffs, like those based on Peter Navarro’s theories, have proven that these taxes are still paid by American consumers, not foreign nations.

The historiography of the Third Reich has long been dominated by the twin pillars of mass media that defined the era: the radio and the cinema. The ubiquity of the Volksempfänger (People's Receiver), bringing the voice of the Führer into the domestic sanctity of the German home, and the monumental visual grammar of Leni Riefenstahl’s films have obscured a third, more nascent, yet technologically superior medium cultivated by the Nazi regime: television. Between the years 1935 and 1944, Nazi Germany operated the world's first regular public television service, a project of immense ambition that sought to collapse the distance between the regime and the populace through the miracle of electronic sight.

The history of North America is inextricably linked to the profound and catastrophic impact of disease. The arrival of European colonists introduced a host of pathogens to which Indigenous populations had no prior exposure or immunity, leading to a demographic collapse of unprecedented scale.

The mid-twentieth century in the United States was characterized by a profound and pervasive psychological crisis, a period where the geopolitical anxieties of the Cold War were turned inward, transforming the American political landscape into a theater of suspicion. While historical shorthand often reduces this era to the singular figure of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy—a phenomenon termed "McCarthyism"—the reality was a far more complex, interlocking system of legislative inquisitions, executive mandates, and cultural purges that extended well beyond the actions of one junior senator from Wisconsin.

The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest armed labor uprising in United States history, with up to 15,000 coal miners battling 3,000 company defenders for five days in 1921, representing both the climax and defeat of militant labor organizing in Appalachian coalfields. This extraordinary confrontation on a West Virginia ridgeline saw the first aerial bombing of American citizens on U.S. soil, federal military intervention with over 2,000 troops, and approximately one million rounds fired in combat that would ultimately transform American labor relations. While the immediate battle ended in defeat for the miners, their struggle directly influenced New Deal legislation that eventually guaranteed workers' rights to organize and bargain collectively.

In 1933, as Doc Savage burst onto American newsstands as the self-made “Man of Bronze,” Nazi Germany created its own twisted mirror image: Sun-Koh, the genetically superior “Heir of Atlantis.” This wasn’t just another pulp knockoff—it was weaponized fiction, designed to inject Nazi racial ideology directly into the bloodstream of popular culture.

The rise of National Socialism in Germany was no mere political phenomenon. It was, rather, a syncretic ideology rooted in a potent and volatile mix of 19th-century esoteric traditions, romantic nationalism, and racial pseudoscience. Understanding these esoteric and pseudoscientific origins is critical to comprehending the motivations and actions of the Third Reich.

azi Germany transformed politics into a form of religion — blending myth, ritual, and ideology into a totalitarian creed. The regime reimagined Christianity through movements like Positive Christianity and German Christianity, while others, such as the Confessing Church, resisted its heresies. Symbols like the swastika and Black Sun were stripped from their ancient meanings and repurposed into emblems of racial mysticism.

The 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden drew over 20,000 attendees and symbolized the height of the German American Bund’s influence in the United States. In the years that followed, federal investigations, media exposure, and shifting wartime sentiment led to the Bund’s rapid collapse and the imprisonment of its leaders, leaving the event as a stark reminder of domestic extremism in the shadow of global conflict.

Infant formula began in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a scientific alternative for babies who could not be breastfed. Over the decades, formula recipes evolved in response to nutritional research-but also to major public-health failures. A series of contamination tragedies in the 1970s culminated in the Infant Formula Act of 1980, which established strict nutrient standards, safety rules, and FDA oversight. The current U.S. infant formula system sits at the intersection of public health regulation, nutrition science, industrial production, and market structure—and its complexity became visible during the 2022 nationwide formula shortage.