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College Admissions After the Supreme Court Ended Race-Conscious Policies What the 2023 SFFA decision actually forbids, what colleges may still weigh, what happened to enrollment afterward, and why the essay question and legacy preferences now carry so much weight. Compton's Cafeteria and the Trans Uprising Before Stonewall In August 1966 trans women in San Francisco's Tenderloin fought back against a police sweep at an all-night cafeteria. Here is what happened, why it was nearly forgotten, and what it built. Conditioning Military Aid and the Old Argument Over Leverage on Allies When Ronald Reagan suspended cluster munitions shipments to Israel in 1982, he joined a long American argument: should military aid to partners come with conditions, and does leverage ever work? Coxey's Army and the 1894 March of the Unemployed on Washington In 1894 an Ohio businessman led the unemployed to the Capitol to demand public works jobs and was arrested for walking on the grass. Forty years later his idea was federal policy. Crystal Lee Sutton and the Union Sign at a North Carolina Textile Mill The real story behind the cardboard sign in a J.P. Stevens mill in 1973: the firing, the 1974 union vote in Roanoke Rapids, and the six years it took to win a first contract. DHS v. Regents and the Paperwork Argument That Saved DACA in 2020 How the Supreme Court kept DACA alive in 2020 without ruling on whether it was legal, and why an argument about agency paperwork still shapes the fight over Dreamers. Diane Nash and the Nashville Sit-Ins That Desegregated Lunch Counters How a Fisk student's question to Nashville's mayor helped end lunch-counter segregation in 1960, and how the same students kept the Freedom Rides alive the next year. Distinction, Proportionality, Precaution: The Rules That Govern Every Strike The three core targeting rules of the laws of war, where they came from in 1949 and 1977, and why they bind every army and armed group equally, whatever the cause. Don't Ask, Don't Tell From the 1993 Compromise to the 2010 Repeal How a 1993 compromise meant to ease the military ban on gay service members ended up discharging thousands, and the votes, lawsuits and Pentagon study that finally repealed it in 2010. Eisenstadt v. Baird and Birth Control for Unmarried People How a 1967 lecture at Boston University, a package of contraceptive foam and a jail sentence led the Supreme Court in 1972 to extend the right to birth control to unmarried people. EMTALA, Emergency Rooms and Abortion When a Pregnancy Turns Dangerous What the 1986 federal emergency-care law requires of hospitals, why the Supreme Court ducked the abortion question in 2024, and what changed when guidance was pulled in 2025. Eunice Foote and the 1856 Experiment That Found the Greenhouse Effect In 1856 an amateur scientist from upstate New York showed that carbon dioxide traps heat. Her paper was read aloud by a man, credited to others and forgotten for 150 years.