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Rumor Mill

Watching fake news spread in 1942.
by Tracy Campbell via Lapham’s Quarterly on May 20, 2020
Statue of Liberty melting.

The Last Time Democracy Almost Died

By examining the upheaval of the nineteen-thirties, we can recognize similarities between today and democracy's last near-death experience.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker
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on January 27, 2020
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., ca. 1903.

The Contradictions of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The Supreme Court justice may have been heralded by many of his progressive peers, but the legacy he left behind is far more ambiguous.
by Brenda Wineapple via The Nation
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on August 13, 2019

No Law Without Politics (No Politics Without Law)

The way to address politicization in the courts is not de-politicization but counter-politicization.
by Jedediah Britton-Purdy via LPE Project on October 2, 2018

Two Ways of Looking at the Bisbee Deportation

A century-old image and the film it inspired.
by Katherine Benton-Cohen, Robert Greene via Lapham’s Quarterly on August 30, 2018

The Killing of Sacco and Vanzetti

The execution of Sacco and Vanzetti over ninety years ago is a reminder of how the American state treats radicals.
by Mary Anne Trasciatti via Jacobin
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on August 23, 2017
Demonstrators hold signs arguing to "Save Sacco & Vanzetti"
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Is There a Place in Public History for Sacco and Vanzetti?

Ninety years after the duo was executed, there are virtually no physical markers in Boston commemorating them.
by Stephanie E. Yuhl, Peter Feuerherd via JSTOR Daily on August 23, 2017
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Going Negative

Judicial dissent in the Supreme Court has a long history.
by Thomas Healy via Boston Review on November 12, 2015
Crowds of people surrounding the General Land Office and accompanying tents

Hail to the Pencil Pusher

American bureaucracy's long and useful history.
by Mike Konczal via Boston Review on September 21, 2015

To Have and to Hold

Griswold v. Connecticut became about privacy; what if it had been about equality?
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker
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on May 25, 2015
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