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Adam Winkler

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'Corporations Are People' Is Built on an Incredible 19th-Century Lie

How a farcical series of events in the 1880s produced an enduring and controversial legal precedent.

by Adam Winkler via The Atlantic on March 5, 2018
How ‘the Kingfish’ Turned Corporations into People

Seventy-five years before Citizens United, the Supreme Court ruled that newspapers were entitled to First Amendment protections.

by Adam Winkler via New York Review of Books on February 28, 2018
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
Franklin Roosevelt: The Father of Gun Control

One of the great pieces of unfinished business for the Democratic Party.

by Adam Winkler via The New Republic on December 19, 2012
The Secret History of Guns

What gun regulations meant to the founders, and why the Black Panthers are the true pioneers of today's pro-gun movement.

by Adam Winkler via The Atlantic on September 1, 2011

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The Supreme Court Is Headed Back to the 19th Century

The justices again appear poised to pursue a purely theoretical liberty at the expense of the lives of people of color.

by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on September 4, 2018

How Corporations Won Their Civil Rights

The Court got it right—but it's not a conclusion we should be entirely comfortable with.

by Robert VerBruggen via The American Conservative on July 3, 2018

Artificial Persons

The long road to "Citizens United."

by David Cole via The Nation on June 6, 2018

Company Men

The 200-year legal struggle that led to Citizens United and gave corporations the rights of people.

by Kim Phillips-Fein via The New Republic on March 29, 2018

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The 200-Year Legal Struggle That Led to Citizens United

How businesses campaigned to win constitutional rights and expand their political reach.

by Kim Phillips-Fein via The New Republic on March 29, 2018

Straight Shot

The History Guys look at who has had access to guns in the U.S., and what those guns have meant to the people who have owned them.

via BackStory on January 25, 2013

A picture of Huey Newton and Fredrika Newton embracing.

The Misunderstood Visionary Behind the Black Panther Party

Huey P. Newton has been mythologized and maligned since his murder 34 years ago. His family and friends offer an intimate look inside his life and mind.

by Jenny Rothenberg Gritz via Smithsonian on August 22, 2023

Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley delivering the welcoming address to delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, on Aug. 26, 1968. BETTMANN ARCHIVE, VIA GETTY IMAGES

How Chicago Got Its Gun Laws

It’s nearly impossible to separate modern-day gun laws from race.

by Lakeidra Chavis via The Marshall Project on March 24, 2023

Reenactment of Old West gun fight

American Gun Culture Ignores How Common Gun Restrictions Were In The Old West

A scholar of gun culture looks at the roots of Americans’ love affair with firearms – and their willingness to accept gun violence as a price of freedom.

by Pierre M. Atlas via The Conversation on June 29, 2022

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