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How to Balance Competing Claims of Religious Freedom?

Peyote use has been defended with religious liberty arguments. So has Bible reading in public schools.

by Tisa Wenger via The Christian Century on October 16, 2017

How the Fight Over Civil Forfeiture Lays Bare the Contradictions in Modern Conservatism

The brewing conflict between originalism and law-and-order politics.

by Sarah A. Seo via Made By History on July 24, 2017

Policing the Community

Today, many politicians claim a community approach means soft on crime. Birmingham's Johnnie Johnson Jr. disagrees.

by Lanier Isom via The Bitter Southerner on July 18, 2017

The Civil Rights Act was a Victory Against Racism. But Racists Also Won.

The bill unleashed a poisonous idea: that America had defeated racism.

by Ibram X. Kendi via Made By History on July 2, 2017

Toward an Environmental History of American Prisons

Like many facets of the American past, mass incarceration looks different if we consider it through the lens of environmental history.

by Clarence Jefferson Hall Jr. via Process: A Blog for American History on June 22, 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

Bathing in Controversy

For a century, school showers have anticipated the current debate about bathrooms.

by J. Y. Chua via The Atlantic on June 2, 2017

The Drugs Won: The Case for Ending the Sports War on Doping

Two former anti-doping professionals think the fight against performance-enhancing drugs is doing more harm than good.

by Patrick Hruby via Vice Sports on August 1, 2016

Recoil Operation

The U.S. has long supplied the world with AR-15 rifles. But only when we see its grim effects at home do politicians call for restricting its sale.

by Patrick Blanchfield via The New Inquiry on July 11, 2016

Valium pills

Mother's Little Helper

How feminists transformed Valium from a wonder drug to a symbol of medical sexism.

via BackStory on May 20, 2016

Cannabis sativa plant.

Reefer Madness in Mexico City

Historian Isaac Campos traces the origins of the idea that marijuana causes violent madness…and finds the trail leads south, to Mexico.

via BackStory on May 20, 2016

A New History of Prohibition

How the ban on booze gave rise to prejudiced policing, the penal system, and the modern American right wing.

by Lisa McGirr, Rebecca Onion via Slate on December 11, 2015

The War to Start All Wars

How the U.S. invasion of Panama ushered in the post-Cold War era of military unilateralism and preemptive war.

by Greg Grandin via Common Dreams on December 22, 2014

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