Today's guest is University of Pennsylvania historian Sophia Rosenfeld, the author of The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life. Her book explores why we've come to basically equate ...

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At a time when the Trump administration has renewed a travel ban on various Muslim majority countries in Africa and across ...

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As Netflix prepares to roll out Wednesday Season 2 this fall, the Addams family is stepping even more into the spotlight.