When Nostalgia Was Considered a Deadly Illness
The dark history of how nostalgia was understood by early medicine.
May 8, 2026
The town of Kyle in Saskatchewan, Canada, faced a hiccup in the run-up to its November 2024 municipal election: no one ran for mayor.
Robert Ripley began the Believe It or Not! cartoon in 1918. Today, it continues uninterrupted as the world’s longest-running syndicated cartoon.