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Visual storytelling and graphics at the Minnesota Star Tribune covered everything from childhood vaccines and Mayor Jacob Frey’s path to a third term to how the State Fair smells. Yes, smells. We ...

Vladi­mir Putin has inspired a number of books seeking to explain his remarkable rise — and his remarkable hold on power. Few accounts are as ambitious, insightful and unsparing as Gessen’s “The ...

Reuters has pieced together the moments when the Hanukkah turned from celebration to fear. Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, ...

For more on lying check out our podcast, “Overheard at National Geographic.” Listen here. This story originally published in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the fall of 1989 ...