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Mona Hanna-Attisha and the Blood-Lead Data That Exposed Flint A Flint pediatrician compared children's blood tests before and after the city's water switch, went public in 2015, and was attacked by the state until its own numbers proved her right. New York's 2019 Rent Law and the Rules It Rewrote for Stabilized Apartments What the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019 changed for New York's rent-stabilized apartments, what owners lost, and why the fight over it never stopped. New York's 2020 Bail Law and the Fight Over What Happened Next How New York ended cash bail for most lower-level charges in 2019, what the evidence says happened after it took effect in 2020, and why the state rolled parts of it back three times. No Child Left Behind and the Testing Era It Started How a 2002 law signed in a small Ohio gym made annual testing national, exposed gaps schools had hidden, and squeezed out much of what a school day used to hold. Ocean Hill-Brownsville and the 1968 Teachers' Strikes Over Community Control In 1968 a Brooklyn school board tried to remove nineteen educators and set off strikes that shut New York's schools for weeks, splitting labor from the civil rights movement it had marched beside. Oregon Became the First State to Cap Rent Increases Statewide How Oregon's 2019 law, SB 608, limited yearly rent hikes and no-cause evictions, why it is not classic rent control, and what the cap has and has not done for renters. Originalism Explained, With the Strongest Case Its Critics Make What originalism actually claims, how it grew from Edwin Meese's 1985 speech into the Court's dominant method, and the strongest arguments its critics make against it. Packing and Cracking, the Two Moves Behind Nearly Every Gerrymander How mapmakers turn a split electorate into a lopsided delegation by packing opponents into a few districts and cracking the rest, with a worked example and the tools used to measure it. Pelosi's First Hundred Hours and the 2007 Minimum Wage Increase How a new Democratic House turned a campaign promise into the 2007 raise from $5.15 to $7.25, and why the law that passed in May looked nothing like the bill passed in January. Prince Edward County Closed Its Schools Rather Than Integrate Them In 1959 a Virginia county stopped funding public schools instead of desegregating them. How massive resistance worked, what five lost years cost Black children, and what repair looked like. Pruitt-Igoe and the Myth That Public Housing Was Doomed to Fail The 1972 implosion in St. Louis became the symbol of failed public housing. The record shows the towers were starved of money and residents, not doomed by the idea itself. Qualified Immunity, the Court-Made Rule That Shields Officers How a 1967 case about clergymen arrested in a Jackson bus station grew into a doctrine that blocks civil-rights suits, and why critics on the left and right want it gone.