What Gideon v. Wainwright Teaches About Rights, Funding, And Real Justice

We trace what populism looks like in the 1890s and why it’s less a single doctrine than a coalition of anger, hope, and economic suspicion. We follow the money fight over gold and silver into the Pani...

14 Apr 18min

A law you can read in about five minutes still shapes some of the biggest fights in the American economy. We walk through the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 with Dr. Sean Beienberg and unpack what “res...

14 Apr 17min

Susan B. Anthony’s most radical move was not that she voted, it was why she believed she had every right to. After she walked into a Rochester polling place in 1872 and cast a ballot, the state treate...

13 Apr 10min

The most fragile part of the presidency isn’t the election. It’s the moment something goes wrong and the country still needs a commander in chief, a working cabinet, and a government that doesn’t free...

13 Apr 41min

We walk through Plessy v. Ferguson and how a planned railcar protest helps the Supreme Court legitimize Jim Crow through the “separate but equal” doctrine. We also dig into Justice John Marshall Harla...

2 Apr 18min

The Lodge Bill of 1890 should be as famous as the Compromise of 1877, yet most of us have never heard of it. We sit down with Dr. Sean Beienberg to unpack how a federal election oversight plan, built ...

1 Apr 13min

Freedom is easy to celebrate in slogans and hard to define when the laws get written. Today we sit with Frederick Douglass at the end of the Civil War as he delivers one of the most direct speeches of...

31 Mar 8min

The Fourteenth Amendment promises a baseline of freedom, but the Supreme Court built that promise through a long series of workarounds. We start with incorporation: how protections in the first eight ...

30 Mar 29min