History

What Do Long Voting Lines Actually Mean?0
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- November 2, 2020
Only a few days remain until the Nov. 3 election, and – as in many years prior – the old chestnut of “long lines” at the polling places has appeared again right on schedule. The difference this time is that many are calling any line a sign of organized “voter suppression” or the new buzzword,
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A Biden Court-Packing Plan Could Be Worse Than FDR’s 0
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- October 30, 2020
Still fighting off the tail-end of the Great Depression, Americans gave President Franklin Delano Roosevelt a landslide victory over Republican challenger Alf Landon in 1936. Roosevelt, keen to see his New Deal legislation brought to fruition, was frustrated again and again by the Supreme Court. The “Four Horsemen” – the press’s name for conservative justices
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Why Americans Are So Enamored With Election Polls 0
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- October 29, 2020
The Republican pollster Frank Luntz warned on Twitter and elsewhere the other day that if preelection polls in this year’s presidential race are embarrassingly wrong again, “then the polling industry is done.” It was quite the forecast. While it is possible the polls will misfire, it’s exceedingly unlikely that such failure would cause the opinion
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Internal Chaos Caused Philly’s ‘Peaceful Protests’0
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- October 28, 2020
Philadelphia, city of brotherly love, welcome to the ranks of riot-ravaged cities! Unrest is exploding once again in a major American city, this time following the death of Walter Wallace, a mentally unstable black man killed after advancing on police with a knife. Wallace’s family has pleaded with people to not riot in his name,
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No, the American Republic Was Not Founded on Slavery 0
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- October 28, 2020
Journalistic propaganda is a powerful instrument of indoctrination. Without evidence, foul ideas can easily penetrate mainstream discourse. For instance, recently it has become fashionable to posit that slavery is America’s original sin. To sensible people, this is a risible claim, because there is nothing particularly American about slavery. But revisiting the history of slavery in
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The History of the Supreme Court in Nine Justices: Penumbras and Stare Decisis 0
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- October 26, 2020
The final three justices in this Supreme Court series bring us from 1939 to the present. 7. William O. Douglas (April 17, 1939 – November 12, 1975) Appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to succeed Justice Louis Brandeis, Douglas was confirmed by the Senate in a 62-4 vote. He served with Justice James Clark McReynolds
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