The Zoning Wars
Local planning boards wield extraordinary power over American lives—deciding who gets to live where, what businesses can operate, and how communities develop. But these seemingly mundane Tuesday night...
11 Mai 15min
The Sheriff's Rebellion
When federal law meets local defiance, who really holds the power? We explore how county sheriffs across America have become unlikely kingmakers, wielding an obscure legal doctrine to nullify everythi...
10 Mai 15min
The Paperwork That Runs America
While politicians fight over big bills, a handful of career bureaucrats quietly write the thousands of pages of regulations that actually govern your daily life. Meet the anonymous rule-writers whose ...
9 Mai 19min
The Memo That Ate Democracy
In 1995, a mid-level Justice Department lawyer named John Yoo wrote what seemed like routine legal advice about presidential war powers. Two decades later, that 42-page memo had been stretched into a ...
8 Mai 15min
The Judge Who Broke the Internet
In 1996, a single federal judge's ruling on an obscure telecommunications law created Section 230—the 26 words that built the modern internet. Now Congress wants to tear it down, but they're discoveri...
7 Mai 18min
The Comma That Killed Coal
How a single punctuation mark in the Clean Air Act became the legal foundation for the EPA's war on coal plants—and why industry lawyers spent decades missing the weapon hiding in plain sight. The sto...
6 Mai 14min
The Trillion Dollar Typo
How a seemingly minor drafting error in the Affordable Care Act created a multi-billion dollar legal battleground and nearly brought down the entire law. We trace the behind-the-scenes scramble as law...
5 Mai 19min
The Captured Regulator
How Boeing went from being regulated by the FAA to essentially regulating itself—a decades-long power transfer that culminated in two crashed planes and 346 dead passengers. We trace the bureaucratic ...
4 Mai 18min
