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Reagan's 1986 Amnesty and What the Immigration Reform Act Did The 1986 law gave legal status to about 2.7 million people and promised to cut off illegal hiring. One half worked and one half failed, and both still shape every reform fight. Rebuilding Gaza After the October 2025 Ceasefire and Who Pays for It The October 2025 ceasefire stopped most of the shooting. How big Gaza's rebuilding job is, who has pledged money, and why past pledges went unpaid. Red Lion, the Fairness Doctrine and the Rule Broadcasters Fought for Decades A 1964 radio attack on a small-town Pennsylvania station led to a unanimous 1969 ruling, a 1987 repeal and a debate about fairness on the air that never ended. Rent Control and What the Economists Actually Found in San Francisco San Francisco's 1994 vote extended rent control to small buildings. A Stanford study found it kept tenants in their homes and shrank the rental supply. Both findings matter. Robert Bullard and the Research Behind Dumping in Dixie A 1979 Houston lawsuit needed a sociologist to map the city's garbage dumps. Robert Bullard's answer launched a career, a landmark book and a field of research that still guides policy. Roe v. Wade Began as a Dallas Lawsuit Filed in 1970 How a 1970 complaint filed by two young Texas lawyers against the Dallas district attorney climbed to the Supreme Court, and what its long road says about rights won in court. Roosevelt's 1937 Court-Packing Plan and the Lesson Both Parties Took From It Franklin Roosevelt's 1937 bid to add justices failed in the Senate even as the Court changed course. Here is what happened, and what today's reformers should learn from it. Rucho v. Common Cause Closed the Federal Courts to Partisan Gerrymandering Claims What the Supreme Court decided on June 27, 2019, why it called partisan maps a political question, and the routes that remain open to anyone who wants fair districts. Rural Broadband and the 69 Senators Who Voted to Pay for It The 2021 infrastructure law set aside tens of billions of dollars to wire rural America. Here is what the 69 senators voted for, what changed after 2024, and who is still waiting for a connection. Russia's Deportation of Ukrainian Children and the ICC Warrant for Putin Why the ICC's March 2023 warrant for Vladimir Putin is about children, what the law says about moving children in war and what it takes to bring them home. Ryan White and the 1990 AIDS Care Law Named After an Indiana Teenager A boy with hemophilia was barred from his Indiana school in 1985 because he had AIDS. Months after he died in 1990, Congress passed the HIV care program that still bears his name. Sam Rayburn's 1955 Return to the Speaker's Chair and the Art of Quiet Power How Sam Rayburn ran a new Democratic House under a popular Republican president, what his quiet methods won, and what they cost the people his caucus left waiting.