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How Big Bonuses for Winning Coaches Became a Tradition in College Football

These bonuses are not a reaction to a multi-billion-dollar market that rewards winning – they are the foundation of it.

by Jasmine E. Harris via The Conversation on December 20, 2018

Right to work states highlighted on a map.

The Right to Work Really Means the Right to Work for Less

Why business interests have spent 70+ years crusading for right-to-work laws.

by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer via Made By History on April 24, 2018

Gun Studies Syllabus

Imagine a class on gun control activism. Here's what its syllabus might look like.

by Caroline E. Light, Lindsay Livingston via Public Books on April 12, 2018

Why Does the U.S. Sentence Children to Life in Prison?

No other nation sentences people to die in prison for offenses committed as minors.

by Katie Rose Quandt via JSTOR Daily on January 31, 2018

Roe v. Wade Lawyer 'Amazed' Americans Still Fighting Over Abortion

On the 45th anniversary of the famous decision, Sarah Weddington reflects on what has – and hasn't – changed.

by Sarah Weddington, Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on January 20, 2018

The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of the U.S. Antitrust Movement

A short history puts contemporary anti-monopoly movements in context.

by Ariel Ezrachi, Maurice E. Stucke via Harvard Business Review on December 15, 2017

Hannah Mayer Stone with Margaret Sanger and other activists.

An Emancipation Proclamation to the Motherhood of America

A profile of Hannah Mayer Stone, one of the key figures in the struggle to make contraception safe, effective, and widely available.

by Jennifer Young via The New Inquiry on November 16, 2017

Painting of the signing of the Constitution.

The Gun Argument That’s Not Even Wrong

Why the “Founders’ Intent” doesn’t matter.

by Yonatan Zunger via NewCo Shift on October 2, 2017

A Presumption of Guilt

Capital punishment and the legacy of terror lynching in the American South.

by Bryan Stevenson via New York Review of Books on July 13, 2017

John Roberts in DC with the media taking photos of him walking.

Inside John Roberts’ Decades-Long Crusade Against the Voting Rights Act

Roberts rose from Rehnquist’s clerk to Chief Justice, leading efforts to weaken the Voting Rights Act and redefine voting protections.

by Ari Berman via Politico Magazine on August 10, 2015

Executing 'Idiots'

Would the Founders have protected people we execute now?

by Michael Clemente via The Marshall Project on July 27, 2015

Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Footnote Four

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's solo dissent from an affirmative action case was inspired by a footnote.

by Lincoln Caplan via The New Yorker on September 13, 2013

Ruth Bader Ginsburg sitting on a chair in a room with a fireplace

How Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Moved the Supreme Court

Despite her path-braking work as a litigator before the Court, she doesn't believe that large-scale social change should come from the courts.

by Jeffrey Toobin via The New Yorker on March 11, 2013

Caricature drawing of Charles Black

Pursuing the Pursuit of Happiness

Traditional Supreme Court precedent may depend too much on substantive due process to safeguard human rights.

by Laurence H. Tribe via New York Review of Books on September 24, 1998

The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti

After Sacco and Vanzetti's final appeal was rejected, Felix Frankfurter, then a professor at Harvard Law School, laid out the many problems with their trials.

by Felix Frankfurter via The Atlantic on March 1, 1927

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