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  1. Ronald Dworkin: The Changing Story Ronald Dworkin
    5 May 1987 … According to scholar Ronald Dworkin, the Constitution shapes the public debate over issues such as AIDS prevention, pornography, and racial discrimination. Continue reading
  2. Please Stay Behind the Yellow Line
    9 Sep 2020 … Today is the nineteenth anniversary of the terrorist attack that killed almost 3000 of us on this date in 2001. It feels wrong to write about daily news today and yet, as we approach 200,000 dead from a mismanaged pandemic Continue reading
  3. The Hijacked Brain Addiction
    3 Mar 1998 … Speaking with neuroscientists and addicts themselves, Bill Moyers attempts to unravel the mysteries of the addicted mind. Bill goes into the laboratory to follow researchers engaged in charting an "image of desire" in the brain. Continue reading
  4. So Long, Farewell
    1 Jan 2021 … On January 20, 2017, Trump took the oath of office and gave his “American Carnage” speech describing America as a hellscape, and we were off to the races. Continue reading
  5. The Best Journalism of 2020: Covering the Pandemic
    12 Dec 2020 … Throughout this year, we’ve relied on journalism to make sense of it all—especially as the virus’s spread frequently outpaced our abilities to comprehend and respond to it. Continue reading
  6. The Other NRA
    8 Aug 2013 … How the insidiously powerful restaurant lobby has fought mandatory earned sick leave policies and managed to keep the minimum wage for restaurant workers the same for over 20 years. Continue reading
  7. The Election-Go-Round: Democracy in Peril A voter returns his vote-by-mail ballot in the 2006 General elections in Lane County, Oregon. (CC 2.0, Flickr)
    8 Aug 2020 … Trump has no legal right to delay the federal elections without the consent of Congress, but his lack of legal authority has rarely stopped him. We know he will do almost anything to work the system and stay in power, Continue reading
  8. Gaming the System
    8 Aug 2020 … No one is pretending that Trump is going to win the popular vote. He’s not even trying to. He’s doubling down on the culture wars that excite his base in the hopes of getting them to turn out in strong Continue reading
  9. Transition Time
    11 Nov 2020 … Since Arizona has been called for Biden the numbers in Biden’s column now make up an insurmountable margin for Trump to overcome. Continue reading
  10. After the War: Aid Workers in Afghanistan, Carter and Gates in South Africa, and an Interview With Ruth Bader Ginsburg Justice Ginsburg headshot
    5 May 2002 … Dominic MacSorely of the humanitarian aid agency Concern Worldwide works to feed the starving people of Afghanistan, Jimmy Carter and Bill Gates aim to fight AIDS in Africa, and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg talks glass ceilings. Continue reading