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Topic: Bill of Rights

Federal immigration agents near MacArthur Park in Los Angeles on July 7, 2025. (Carlin Steihl/Los Angeles Times)

Trump tightens his authoritarian grip

Chauncey DeVega
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) special agent preparing to arrest alleged immigration violators (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

Trump DOJ: Warrantless searches OK

Alex Galbraith
US President Joe Biden speaks at a Democratic National Committee event at the Columbus Club in Union Station, Washington, DC (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

"AI Bill of Rights" governs safe AI

Christopher Dancy - The Conversation
"The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America" by Caro Anderson (Photo illustration by Salon/Stephen Nowland/Emory University/Bloomsbury Publishing)

Racist history of the Second Amendment

Dean Obeidallah
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Amy Coney Barrett | Constitution of the United States of America (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Judge Barrett and the Second Amendment

Kirk Swearingen
Gretchen Whitmer (David Olds)

Militia men embrace constitutional lies

John E. Finn - The Conversation
Donald Trump; Thomas Jefferson (AP/Getty/Salon)

Presidents and Americans on a free press

Jill Darling, Robert Shrum - The Conversation
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"We're not fake news" isn't enough

Andrew O'Hehir
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James Madison (Getty/National Archive)

This country was founded on gun control

Ed Asner, Ed. Weinberger
George W. Bush; Donald Trump (AP/Jacquelyn Martin/Evan Vucci)

From Bush to Trump: But how?

Anis Shivani

Whose constitution is it?

Carrie Sheffield

Read the Bill of Rights

James Madison
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This is the last Christmas

Neal Pollack
James Madison (Wikimedia/National Gallery)

James Madison was an artist

Adam Cohen - The National Book Review
Tea Party activist William Temple listens as Newt Gingrich addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference, February 27, 2015. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)

The right flunks U.S. history

Elias Isquith
French comedian Dieudonné (left) was recently arrested for a Facebook post considered supportive of terrorism. (Reuters/Gonzalo Fuentes/Salon)

Free speech and state power

Andrew O'Hehir
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Amanda Marcotte - Alternet
Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia (AP/Randy Snyder/Reuters/Brendan McDermid)

The right doesn't trust you

Michael Lind
Rand Paul, Ted Cruz (AP/Timothy D. Easley/Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

The right’s wrong about rights

Michael Lind

Bill of Rights' secret history

Michael Lind
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Quinn's uncouth history lesson

Eric Brown - International Business Times
(Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

Steve Erickson - The American Prospect
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