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Voices from the Oilfields
Using oral histories of early East Texas oil workers, recorded in the 1950s, we hear about the chaos and excess that accompanied the discovery of oil.
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BackStory
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January 9, 2015
The Racial History Of The 'Grandfather Clause'
Companies and individuals are considered grandfathered and exempt from new sets of regulations all the time. But the term and the concept dates to a darker era.
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Alan Greenblatt
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NPR
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October 22, 2013
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How Much Is Too Much?
The dramatic story of the abolitionist mail crisis of 1835.
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BackStory
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December 7, 2012
Rogue State
The case against Delaware.
by
Jonathan Chait
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The New Republic
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August 19, 2002
Pursuing the Pursuit of Happiness
Traditional Supreme Court precedent may depend too much on substantive due process to safeguard human rights.
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Laurence H. Tribe
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New York Review of Books
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September 24, 1998
A Report from Occupied Territory
These things happen, in all our Harlems, every single day. If we ignore this fact, and our common responsibility to change this fact, we are sealing our doom.
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James Baldwin
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The Nation
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July 11, 1966
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