Being a librarian now means also being at least a part-time social worker

At San Francisco’s main branch, a balance of outreach and keeping a lookout

Apple’s long history of pissing people off by killing stuff

iHate.

You can thank American GIs for your backyard grill

What would Don Draper grill?

Some people didn’t take Hitler seriously, either

How’d that go?

For more than 100 years, SoMa has been home to the homeless

Waves of new residents want that to change

The hostile takeover of the NRA

In 1977, an “extremist coup” set the organization’s agenda and personality for the subsequent 40 years.

‘Under God’ in the Pledge of Allegiance—a Cold War addition

The two added words in 1954 were purely anti-Soviet propaganda

The origin of victim impact statements has its roots in the Charles Manson case

Because of Sharon Tate’s mother, they are the law in California

Why is pepper spray still the ‘best’ rape prevention tech?

But Apple’s new emergency alert service could change that

Japanese people want the US military out, and they’ve rioted over it in the past

Bad behavior by American troops has been a problem on Okinawa for 50 years