Still Fighting for equal protection

In 1776, as the men of the Continental Congress debated independence and imagined a new nation, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, and asked him to do something radical:“remember the ladies.” In that same letter, she warned against giving husbands “such unlimited power” and wrote, “all…

Who counts as a person? This is not, in my opinion, as complicated a question as members of SCOTUS might have us believe. In this episode, I briefly discuss the absurdity of Citizens United, then walk back to the late 19th Century and Myra Bradwell, the woman who pushed for her autonomy in law and …