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What Freedom Meant to the Black Soldier Who Rowed Across the Delaware
The enslaved Prince Whipple acutely felt the contradiction between American ideals and his condition.
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Timothy Messer-Kruse
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Commonplace
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August 6, 2024
America Has Too Many Laws
An excess of restrictions has taken a very real toll on the lives of everyday Americans. Their stories must be told.
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Neil Gorsuch
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Janie Nitze
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The Atlantic
on
August 5, 2024
The Man Who Created the Trade Paperback
On the life and times of Jason Epstein, cofounder of “The New York Review of Books.”
by
Michael Castleman
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Literary Hub
on
July 18, 2024
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Matters of Life and Death
Systemic racism and capital punishment have long been intertwined in Virginia, the South, and the nation.
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Janis Parker
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July 10, 2024
partner
Supreme Court Opinions Don't Have to Be the Final Word
The Supreme Court doesn't have the last word; the people do. How attorneys pushed back on the flawed 1987 McCleskey decision.
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Robert L. Tsai
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Made by History
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June 28, 2024
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How Doctors Came to Play a Key Role in the Abortion Debate
While the phrase "between a woman and her doctor" has been used to protect abortion access, it also reflects physicians' outsized power.
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Emma Peterson
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Daniel Martinez Hosang
via
Made by History
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June 20, 2024
The Boston ‘Busing Crisis’ Was Never About Busing
Five decades after the desegregation effort, a civil-rights scholar questions its framing.
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Jeanne Theoharis
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The Emancipator
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June 19, 2024
War in the Aisles
Monopolies across the grocery supply chain squeeze consumers and small-business owners alike. Big Data will only entrench those dynamics further.
by
Jarod Facundo
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The American Prospect
on
June 12, 2024
The Constitutional Case Against Exclusionary Zoning
America is suffering from a severe housing shortage. A crucial tool may lie in the Constitution.
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Ilya Somin
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Joshua Braver
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The Atlantic
on
June 12, 2024
How 3M Discovered, Then Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicals
The company found its own toxic compounds in human blood—and kept selling them.
by
Sharon Lerner
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The New Yorker
on
May 20, 2024
Deb Haaland Confronts the History of the Federal Agency She Leads
As the first Native American Cabinet member, the Secretary of the Interior has made it part of her job to address the travesties of the past.
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Casey N. Cep
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The New Yorker
on
April 29, 2024
What Centuries of Common Law Can Teach Us About Regulating Social Media
Today, tech platforms, including social media, are the new common carriers.
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Ganesh Sitaraman
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Morgan Ricks
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LPE Project
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February 26, 2024
Petrochemical Companies Have Known for 40 Years that Plastics Recycling Wouldn't Work
Despite knowing that plastic recycling wouldn't work, new documents show how petrochemical companies promoted it anyway.
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Joseph Winters
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Grist
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February 20, 2024
How the Federalist Society Conquered the American Legal System
How the Federalist Society became the engine of the conservative legal movement—and where it might be headed next.
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Peter Shamshiri
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Rhiannon Hamam
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Michael Liroff
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Amanda Hollis-Brusky
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Balls And Strikes
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February 13, 2024
Why the Long Shadow of Bush v. Gore Looms Over the Supreme Court’s Colorado Case
In the fight over keeping Trump’s name on the ballot, the 2000 decision is a warning but not a precedent.
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E. Tammy Kim
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The New Yorker
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February 7, 2024
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What’s Behind the Fight Over Whether Nonprofits Can Be Forced to Disclose Donors’ Names
A reminder of how tricky it is to balance protecting transparency and freedom of association.
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Helen J. Knowles-Gardner
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Made by History
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January 16, 2024
Guatemala’s Baby Brokers: How Thousands of Children Were Stolen For Adoption
Baby brokers often tricked Indigenous Mayan women into giving up newborns; kidnappers took others. International adoption is now seen as a cover for war crimes.
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Rachel Nolan
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The Guardian
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January 4, 2024
Japan’s Incomplete Reckoning With World War II Crimes
Gary Bass’s new book asks why the tribunal in Tokyo after World War II was so ineffective.
by
Aryeh Neier
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The New Republic
on
December 7, 2023
Bad Facts, Bad Law
In a recent Supreme Court oral argument about disarming domestic abusers, originalism itself was put to the test.
by
Duncan Hosie
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New York Review of Books
on
November 25, 2023
America’s Most Dangerous Anti-Jewish Propagandist
Making sense of anti-Semitism today requires examining Henry Ford’s outsize part in its origins.
by
Daniel Schulman
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The Atlantic
on
November 7, 2023
Charlottesville’s Lee Statue Meets its End, in a 2,250-Degree Furnace
The divisive Confederate monument, the focus of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally, was melted down in secret and will become a new piece of public art.
by
Teo Armus
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Hadley Green
via
Washington Post
on
October 26, 2023
The Revolution Within the American Revolution
Supported and largely led by slaveholders, the American Revolution was also, paradoxically, a profound antislavery event.
by
Sean Wilentz
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New York Review of Books
on
October 23, 2023
A Racist Scientist Commissioned Photos of Enslaved People. One Descendant Wants to Reclaim Them.
There's no clear system in place to repatriate remains of captive Africans or objects associated with them.
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Jennifer Berry Hawes
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ProPublica
on
October 9, 2023
What the Conventional Narrative Gets Wrong About the Civil Rights Movement
A new book illuminates how Black Americans used property ownership, common law and other methods to assert their rights.
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Matt Delmont
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Washington Post
on
September 26, 2023
Hypodermics on the Shore
The “syringe tides”—waves of used hypodermic needles, washing up on land—terrified beachgoers of the late 1980s. Their disturbing lesson was ignored.
by
Jeremy A. Greene
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The Atlantic
on
August 29, 2023
Bond Villains
Municipal governments today hold around $4 trillion in outstanding debt. The growing costs of simply servicing their debt is cannibalizing their annual budgets.
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Clark Randall
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Boston Review
on
August 16, 2023
The Unlikely Origins of ‘Rapper’s Delight,’ Hip-Hop’s First Mainstream Hit
The Sugarhill Gang song remains one of rap's most beloved. But it took serendipity, a book of rhymes, and an agreement to settle a lawsuit for it to survive.
by
Kim Bellware
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Retropolis
on
August 8, 2023
Why Did They Bomb Clinton High School?
It was the first Southern school to be integrated by court order, and the town reluctantly prepared to comply. Then an acolyte of Ezra Pound’s showed up.
by
Louis Menand
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The New Yorker
on
July 31, 2023
How the Kentucky Cave Wars Reshaped the State's Tourism Industry
Rival entrepreneurs took drastic steps to draw visitors away from Mammoth Cave in the early 20th century.
by
Eliza McGraw
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Smithsonian
on
July 25, 2023
The Curse of Bigness
Until more Americans know what happened in periods such as the Gilded Age, they can’t protect themselves from those who abuse history to advance poor policy.
by
Amity Shlaes
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National Review
on
July 10, 2023
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