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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

Credit score graph and a stack of coins.

The Equifax Breach Has Potentially Catastrophic Consequences

Credit reporting companies' immense power and lack of transparency puts consumers at risk.

by Sarah E. Igo via Made By History on September 26, 2017

The Two-tiered Justice System: Money Bail in Historical Perspective

Decades of tough-on-crime policies that criminalized the poor and people of color are yet to be undone, but the pendulum is beginning to swing.

by Cassie Miller via Southern Poverty Law Center on June 6, 2017

The U.S. Representative Who Tried to Outlaw War

Jeanette Rankin was the first woman to become a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. And she once tried to outlaw war.

by Erin Blakemore, Harriet Hyman Alonso via JSTOR Daily on April 2, 2017

Side-by-side portraits of Franklin Pierce and Dorothea Dix

Dorothea Dix and Franklin Pierce: The Battle for the Mentally Ill

Dorothea Dix and Franklin Pierce were in many ways ideological soulmates, but he would not help her effort to improve conditions for the mentally ill.

via New England Historical Society on February 8, 2014

Income tax form

Tax Time

by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on November 19, 2012

Leone Baxter and Clem Whitaker

The Lie Factory: How Politics Became a Business

The field of political consulting was unknown before Leone Baxter and Clem Whitaker founded Campaigns, Inc., in 1933.

by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on September 17, 2012

An American flag with the stars replaced by Chiquita logos and the stripes containing the words "The United Fruit Co. in Guatemala"

Watch Out For the Top Banana

Edward Bernays and the colonial adventures of the United Fruit Company.

by Larry Tye via Cabinet on September 4, 2006

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