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'Corporations Are People' Is Built on an Incredible 19th-Century Lie

How a farcical series of events in the 1880s produced an enduring and controversial legal precedent.

by Adam Winkler via The Atlantic on March 5, 2018

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How ‘the Kingfish’ Turned Corporations into People

Seventy-five years before Citizens United, the Supreme Court ruled that newspapers were entitled to First Amendment protections.

by Adam Winkler via New York Review of Books on February 28, 2018

Disarming the NRA

The Second Amendment does not stand in the way of better gun laws; the NRA does.

by Adam Winkler via New York Review of Books on October 5, 2017

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Franklin Roosevelt: The Father of Gun Control

One of the great pieces of unfinished business for the Democratic Party.

by Adam Winkler via The New Republic on December 19, 2012

The Secret History of Guns

What gun regulations meant to the founders, and why the Black Panthers are the true pioneers of today's pro-gun movement.

by Adam Winkler via The Atlantic on September 1, 2011

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