Subject: Law/Government
Should All Drugs Be Legalized?
Combining a unique visual approach with carefully constructed narrative text, this entry in the Big Idea series provides a survey of the history of drug […]
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Two Cheers for Politics
In Two Cheers for Politics, Jedediah Purdy argues that this heated political culture is a symptom not of too much democracy but too little. Today, […]
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The Whiteness of Wealth
Dorothy A. Brown became a tax lawyer to get away from race. As a young black girl growing up in the South Bronx, she’d seen […]
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The Constitution in Jeopardy
A former US senator reveals a far-right plot to radically change the laws of our land, and articulates a plan for how to handle it. […]
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100% Democracy
Americans are required to pay taxes, serve on juries, get their kids vaccinated, get driver’s licenses, and sometimes go to war for their country. So […]
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The Blessings of Liberty
This concise, accessible text by historian Michael Benedict provides students with a history of American constitutional development in the context of political, economic, and social […]
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Free Speech and Censorship
This annotated document collection surveys the history and evolution of laws and attitudes regarding free speech and censorship in the United States, with a special […]
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Cheap Speech
An informed and practical road map for controlling disinformation, embracing free speech, saving American elections, and protecting democracy. What can be done consistent with the […]
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The Fight to Save the Town
A sweeping and authoritative study of wealth inequality and the dismantling of local government in four working-class cities across the US that passionately argues for […]
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