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The Supreme Court is Not Supposed to Have This Much Power

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By Nikolas Bowie & Daphna Renan The Atlantic It’s June again—that time of year when Americans wake up each morning and wait for the Supreme Court to resolve our deepest political […]

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LAW

How the NRA Evolved from Backing a 1934 Ban on Machine Guns to Blocking Nearly all Firearm Restrictions Today

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By Robert Spitzer The Conversation The mass shootings at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket and an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, just 10 days apart, are stirring the now-familiar national debate over guns […]

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LAW

How the AI Industry Profits From Catastrophe

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By Karen Hao archive & Andrea Paola Hernández MIT Technology Review It was meant to be a temporary side job—a way to earn some extra money. Oskarina Fuentes Anaya signed […]

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The Last Summer of Roe v. Wade

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By Carter Sherman Vice Texas abortion providers sued to halt the law, but the Supreme Court didn’t stop the law from taking effect early Wednesday morning. Overnight, access to abortion […]

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LAW

A Crusade to Challenge the 2020 Election, Blessed by Church Leaders

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By Charles Homans The New York Times Evangelical churches have long been powerful vehicles for grassroots activism and influence on the American right, mobilized around issues such as abortion and […]

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LAW, NATIONAL SECURITY

Inside Mississippi’s Only Class on Critical Race Theory

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By Molly Minta Mississippi Today Brittany Murphree was born and raised in Rankin County, Mississippi, one of the most Republican counties in one of the most Republican states.  She went […]

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LAW

Transparency Laws Let Criminal Records Become Commodities

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By Sarah Lageson Wired In April 2018, Adnan (a pseudonym) was wrongfully arrested in Newark, New Jersey, on the basis of an incorrect arrest warrant. A brief period in jail led […]

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LAW

The Constitutional Right We Have Bargained Away

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By Carissa Byrne Hessick The Atlantic The Bill of Rights exists to protect individuals. It protects the right to free speech, the right to due process, the right to counsel, and […]

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LAW

How Child Care Became the Most Broken Business in America

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By Claire Suddath Bloomberg Deanna Cohen was 20 years into a career in the music industry when she realized it wasn’t going to work out. On paper she looked like […]

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LAW

Omicron: The Variant that Vaccine Apartheid Built

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By Matiangai Sirleaf Just Security In January 2021, Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS warned, “We are witness to a vaccine apartheid that is only serving the interests of powerful and […]

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