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Was 1960's Liberalism the Cause of Today's Overincarceration Crisis?

Today, nearly 2.2 million Americans are behind bars. Can contemporary mass incarceration's roots be traced to LBJ's Great Society?

by Lauren-Brooke Eisen via The National Book Review on June 4, 2016

The Odds Against Antiwar Warriors

A review of Michael Kazin's "War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918."

by Andrew J. Bacevich via The American Conservative on March 30, 2017

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Going Negative

Judicial dissent in the Supreme Court has a long history.

by Thomas Healy via Boston Review on November 12, 2015

Carrie Buck with her mother Emma.

The Forgotten Lessons of the American Eugenics Movement

It's impossible to revisit the history of America's quest for racial purity without sometimes being reminded of the current public discourse.

by Andrea DenHoed via The New Yorker on April 27, 2016

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