In a special hour this week, On the Media examines the history of US imperialism — and why the familiar US map hides the true story of our country.

Ted Kaczynski had been a boy genius. James McConnell’s ideas about psychology sparked almost as much anxiety as Facebook does today. Here’s how their paths crossed.

Hindu nationalists are rewriting Indian history, and we re-examine a foundational myth in the US. 

A once-famous psychologist...& how the Unabomber tried to kill him. The first part of a three-part series from The Stakes examines the science of persuasion — and its backlash.

White nationalism laundered through punditry, supremacist notions about self-governance, and Puerto Ricans' perspectives on federal oversight. 

Historian Kathleen Belew says that the key to understanding massacres like the one in El Paso is to understand the movement that they come from.

Can theories of criminal justice reform help us rehabilitate so-called trolls and detoxify the web?

Part two of a series. If we don’t want to keep locking people in jail for every infraction, what do we do to address injustice when it appears? 

Part one of a series. In this episode, how a movement of progressive prosecutors seeks to transform our justice system.