Politics & Government

JSTOR Daily stories discussing government and politics, all including links to publicly accessible research on JSTOR.

MacArthur Fellow Jennifer L. Eberhardt poised to give an interview

MacArthur Fellow Jennifer L. Eberhardt Shines Light on Racism and Criminal Justice

Social psychologist Jennifer L. Eberhardt has won a MacArthur fellowship for her research in criminal justice reform.

Seattle Post Intelligencer newspaper from 1928 announces that Olmstead is guilty of bootlegging.

An Early Wiretapping Case

Wiretapping made its debut in front of the Supreme Court in 1928.

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Science & Technology

Convincing Peasants to Fly in the Soviet Union

With air-minded films, poems, and demonstrations, Soviet leaders sought to lift peasants out of their “backward” lives and into the world of the modern proletariat.

Politics & History

The Trouble with Reentry

Reentry of space junk in the 1970s forced First Nations communities into a reckoning with Cold War geopolitics and a burgeoning envirotechnical disaster.

Politics & History

Iran’s Protest Culture

A succession of authoritarian regimes birthed a strong tradition of collective action.

Arts & Culture

Tyler S. Sprague on the Intersection of Structure and Design

An interview with Tyler S. Sprague, a historian of the built environment whose work depends on multidisciplinarity and a deep knowledge of structure and materials.

Politics & History

How to be a Modern Autocrat

In the twenty-first century, dictators are less likely than their predecessors to use violence to suppress dissent, cultivating instead “informational autocracies.”

MacArthur Fellow Jennifer L. Eberhardt Shines Light on Racism and Criminal Justice

An Early Wiretapping Case

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