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The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 and Its Revival in 2025 How a 1798 wartime law was used in March 2025 to fly Venezuelan men to a Salvadoran prison, what the statute actually says, and what the Supreme Court required before anyone else could be removed. The Black Panther Party's Free Clinics and Its Sickle Cell Campaign In 1971 the Black Panther Party launched a national sickle cell testing campaign from free clinics in cities across the country. What it did and why it matters. The Bork Hearings and a New Senate Majority's Power Over Nominations How a new Democratic Senate turned Robert Bork's 1987 Supreme Court nomination into a national debate about rights, and why that fight still shapes every confirmation. The Breakup of Ma Bell and What Antitrust Can Do When It Means It The 1982 AT&T settlement split the largest company on earth into pieces and unleashed competition in phones and networks. What structural remedies can teach today's tech fights. The Case for Eighteen-Year Terms on the Supreme Court Why staggered 18-year terms for justices would lower the stakes of every vacancy, how the plan would work, and honest answers to the strongest constitutional objections. The Case for Lifting the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap In 2023 both parties stood in the House chamber to promise no cuts to Social Security. Here is the argument that keeping that promise means taxing high earnings the way all other wages are taxed. The Case for Reparations and the Strongest Objections to It What H.R. 40 would actually do, the strongest arguments against reparations for slavery and its aftermath stated fairly, and how supporters answer each one. The Chinese Exclusion Act and the First Law to Bar a People by Name How the 1882 law that barred Chinese workers built the paperwork, inspectors and court doctrines that still shape American immigration enforcement today. The Church Committee of 1975 and the Secrets It Pulled Into the Light In 1975 a Senate committee exposed FBI campaigns against activists and CIA plots to kill foreign leaders. What it found, how it worked, and the reforms we still rely on. The Communications Act of 1934 and the Idea That the Airwaves Belong to the Public How a 1934 law made broadcasters trustees of public airwaves, why the public-interest standard faded, and what the old bargain still offers a democracy. The Comstock Act of 1873 and an Old Law Back in the Abortion Fight Why an 1873 anti-vice law that banned mailing contraceptives and abortion supplies is still on the books, how courts narrowed it, and why it now hangs over abortion pills by mail. The Cuyahoga Fire and the 1972 Veto Override That Made the Clean Water Act A small fire on an oily Cleveland river in 1969 became a national symbol, and three years later Congress overrode President Nixon's veto by huge bipartisan margins to pass the Clean Water Act.