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Conservatives have big plans for the judicial branch

"We see this discrepancy now between the court and political opinion and popular opinion among the American people is leading to the lowest approval ratings the court has ever had since opinion poll takers began asking about it in the early 70s."
Barbara Perry
virginia humanities headline

Reflections of Cold War Anxieties

During the Cold War, tensions between the US and Russia were at an all time high. A kind of existential fear seeped into many aspects of society – including the silver screen. Todd Sechser charts the shifting anxieties over nuclear war reflected in movies from the 1960’s to the 80’s.
Todd Sechser