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Smithsonian magazine covers history, science and culture in the way only it can — through a lens on the world that is insightful and grounded in richly reported stories. In There’s More to That, meet the magazine’s journalists and hear how they discover the forces behind the biggest issues of our time.
February 12, 2026 | 28 minutes
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The patriots weaponized Jane McCrea’s death to demonize their enemies and paint Indigenous people as uniquely violent
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Joseph Weizenbaum realized that programs like his Eliza chatbot could “induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people”
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