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Aaron Sobczak is a foreign policy reporter for the Quincy Institute’s Responsible Statecraft and hol

Federal Judges Co-Opted America’s State Constitutions

The idea that the federal Bill of Rights is the only thing standing between freedom and tyranny in America is deeply ingrained in the American mind. It is ubiquitous in our speech, for instance, as can be seen in how we use phrases like “my Second Amendment rights” or “I want to plead the Fifth [Amendment].” It is also assumed that unless the federal Supreme Court has intervened to declare that a legal right exists, then the right is virtually non-existent within the American legal system.

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Mustafa Ekin Turan is a senior undergraduate student studying Economics and Social Sciences at Bocconi University in

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Owen Ashworth is a British Political Commentator who has a great love for Economics and History.

Who Really Works Against the Public?

In the early evening of October 8, 1882, one of the richest men in the world was about to eat his supper in his private dining car. The train to which he was attached had just arrived in Chicago from Michigan City, Indiana, but before he could pick up his fork, a brash young reporter, freelancer Clarence Dresser, burst into his car asking for an interview. He wanted to know the railroad’s guidelines for establishing freight rates.

“I’ll talk to you after supper,” William Henry Vanderbilt told him.

Navigating the Slippery Slope: How Hoover’s Interventions Paved the Way for the Great Depression

Herbert Hoover’s presidency is often mythically mischaracterized as a period of strict nonintervention in the economy. However, it was in fact defined by a series of economic maneuvers that not only deviated from laissez-faire ideology, but also significantly contributed to the onset of the Great Depression. He initiated his term in 1929 with a proactive push by establishing the Federal Farm Board and later the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.