Learn about the Technocrats who wanted to develop a scientific dictatorship in the 1930s, and how their agenda is now coming into action.

Apr 9, 2012 - Christopher Woodward

Canada looks like a secret dictatorship. The country's government was based on Britain's Parliamentary System but has come to resemble a totalitarian system.

Feb 14, 2009 - Jim Osborne

Sulla marched on Rome twice and carried out a reign of terror on both occasions, the second time with a bloodletting not seen before in the ancient city.

Feb 10, 2011 - Keith Sellick

Hadrian ensured that the peace of Rome would prevail through most of the second century, ruling wisely despite public indiscretions.

Dec 17, 2011 - Michael Streich

Founded in 1869, Cornell University Press was the first university press in the United States. Today, the scholarly press publishes more than 150 new titles annually.

Feb 1, 2010 - Simone Preuss

Our founders based their commitment to a free press on their knowledge and personal experience with a society that strictly prohibited it.

Aug 28, 2008 - Theresa Willingham

The government took a day off from ignoring the problems of the real world with a full day hearing to question officials about performance-enhancing drug use.

Jan 16, 2008 - James Lincoln Ray

Press censorship and attacks on newspapers began with the founding of the nation and always involved political ideals or social controversies like abolition of slavery.

Sep 21, 2009 - Michael Streich

J.K. Rowling's portrayal of the wizarding world's state-controlled paper illuminates the dangers of government control of the press.

Jan 13, 2011 - Paul Brown

Freedom of the press in the U.S. can be traced back to the post Seven Years' War period as colonial opposition to British revenue policies caused widespread anger.

Sep 18, 2009 - Michael Streich

Abigail "Gaie" Ailing, Mark Nelson, Sally Silverstone were sealed for two years inside a full-size terrarium, Biosphere 2. Details of their daily life and challenges.

Jun 19, 2009 - Thomas Alan Gray

Fifty-five years before the first night baseball games were introduced to the major leagues in 1935, lighting was brought to baseball at lower levels.

Jun 18, 2008 - John K. Davis

While countries in Western Europe responded to Renaissance influences and developed into modern states, Russia remained regressive and still rooted in the Middle Ages.

Jan 5, 2010 - Brenda Ralph Lewis

The House of Commons Committee for Science and Technology recommends that NHS funding of non-evidence based complimentary treatment is a luxury that it can't afford.

Feb 23, 2010 - Alister Gillies

When minerals are too small to see with the naked eye, a microscope can be used to identify them based on optical properties unique to each mineral.

Sep 23, 2009 - Alexandra Matiella Novak

The pledge of allegiance contains the words under God. A recent court case sought to exclude those words from the pledge. The importance of those words is debated.

Feb 24, 2007 - Richard Cleary

Student publication and broadcasting staffs at Illinois colleges should know their rights under the College Campus Press Act (CCPA).

Jun 2, 2009 - Julie Stroebel

In the 17th and 18th centuries in England for those accused of a crime who refused to enter a plea a particularly gruesome inducement was devised.

Aug 13, 2010 - Rupert Taylor

Interviews with Alastair Reynolds, Year's Best Horror Editor Ellen Datlow, Fiction by Stoker winner Steve Rasnic Tem, Fred Johnston & book reviews from Juliet E. McKenna

Dec 24, 2008 - Colin Harvey

Reporters Without Borders is an international NGO which defends freedom of expression and reports on censorship. They fight for press freedom worldwide.

Nov 2, 2009 - Brenna Coleman