Not too long ago, people believed that those who smoked tobacco products were not harming others. Doctors, nurses, and celebrities endorsed smoking through advertisements, claiming it was beneficial. One advertisement featured a “doctor” promoting smoking by suggesting a little girl could live 100 years longer than her mother. Another showed an ear, nose, and throat…

Following the passing of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, the federal government has done little in response to complaints about the data privacy of children in America. The laws that govern data collection from children were enacted before data tracking through technology was a prevalent issue for children. Although privacy protections exist in some…

State supreme courts are overly political. The election of state supreme court justices is one reason for this troubling reality. With recent decisions by the Supreme Court of United States functionally delegating issues of great importance—including issues many view as fundamental rights, such as abortion and voting rights—to the states, focus has shifted from the…

Corrections officers—often referred to as “COs”—are unique in the way they have regular, one-on-one contact with those in prison. Those routine interactions with incarcerated individuals make corrections officers a critical element in shaping the culture in carceral settings. Corrections officers create the human environment inside prisons, and set the boundaries of prison life by settling…

“Southern gentlemen who led in the late rebellion have not parted with their convictions at this point, any more than at any other…They believed in slavery and they believe in it still. They believe in an aristocratic class, and they believe in it still…” -Frederick Douglass, Composite Nation, 1869 “Big protest in D.C. on January…