Time Machine

Each week, CAFE Editorial Producer David Kurlander looks back at an historical event that can help us make sense of a current legal or political conundrum.

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‘What Is This, Disneyland?’: INS Official Harold Ezell’s Press-Focused War on Undocumented Immigrants

The legal fallout from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s decision to send mostly Venezuelan asylum-seekers to Martha’s Vineyard continues this week, with questions swirling over the role of a mysterious recruiter named Perla in orchestrating the politicized journey. On this week’s episode of Now & Then, “Immigration: Defining ‘Us’ and ‘Them,’” Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne […]

‘A Populist-Royalist’: The Political Successes of President Carter’s 1977 British Adventure

‘The Game is Different’: President Clinton’s 2000 Pushback to Candidate George W. Bush

‘No Longer the Chief Consideration’: John D. Rockefeller, Jr.’s Endorsement of Student Loans

‘The Irreconcilable Conflict’: The Hyde Amendment, the Courts, and the Use of Federal Funds for Abortions

‘Widespread Corporate Freeloading’: The Contract with America and the Debate Over the Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax

‘No Estimate Can Be Made’: The 1877 Patent Office Fire and the Fate of Federal Record-Keeping

‘The Sole Source of Nutrients’: The Syntex Scandal and Federal Regulation of Baby Formula

‘Mealy Mouthed Mollifiers of Militias’: The 1995 Congressional Reckoning with Paramilitary Groups

‘Dry Up This Vast Reservoir’: Saturday Night Specials and the 1972 Gun Control Battle

‘Some Startling Disclosures’: Herman and Betty Talmadge and the 1970s Political Alcohol Reckoning

‘Liberty Cannot Bloom Amid Hate’: The Retirement of Justice Thurgood Marshall and the Rightward Drift of the Supreme Court

‘Do Away with Me!’: Thomas J. Dodd’s Senate Censure Hearings and the Evolution of Political Accountability

Time Machine

‘What Is This, Disneyland?’: INS Official Harold Ezell’s Press-Focused War on Undocumented Immigrants

‘A Populist-Royalist’: The Political Successes of President Carter’s 1977 British Adventure

‘The Game is Different’: President Clinton’s 2000 Pushback to Candidate George W. Bush

‘No Longer the Chief Consideration’: John D. Rockefeller, Jr.’s Endorsement of Student Loans

‘The Irreconcilable Conflict’: The Hyde Amendment, the Courts, and the Use of Federal Funds for Abortions

‘Widespread Corporate Freeloading’: The Contract with America and the Debate Over the Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax

‘No Estimate Can Be Made’: The 1877 Patent Office Fire and the Fate of Federal Record-Keeping

‘The Sole Source of Nutrients’: The Syntex Scandal and Federal Regulation of Baby Formula

‘Mealy Mouthed Mollifiers of Militias’: The 1995 Congressional Reckoning with Paramilitary Groups

‘Dry Up This Vast Reservoir’: Saturday Night Specials and the 1972 Gun Control Battle

‘Some Startling Disclosures’: Herman and Betty Talmadge and the 1970s Political Alcohol Reckoning

‘Liberty Cannot Bloom Amid Hate’: The Retirement of Justice Thurgood Marshall and the Rightward Drift of the Supreme Court

‘Do Away with Me!’: Thomas J. Dodd’s Senate Censure Hearings and the Evolution of Political Accountability

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