| | By Made by History / Produced by Olivia B. Waxman | Americans continue to wrestle with growing restrictions on reproductive autonomy and the erosion of abortion access. Conservative activists have suggested that anonymous "safe haven" baby drop boxes to enable adoptions can serve as a solution to unwanted pregnancies. But as Kristen Martin writes in Made By History, such practices have a long history of creating new harms. For example, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Catholic New York Foundling Hospital quietly received babies born into circumstances deemed socially unacceptable. Sent to Catholic adoptive parents, these children grew up cut off from their birth families. As adults, former "foundlings" seeking basic information about their origins were often denied, leaving many frustrated and isolated. This history reminds us that anonymous infant relinquishment practices ignore the lasting impact on those left with a lifetime of unanswered questions. | |
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| | | | | |  | When Policymakers Ignore Economists' Warnings | Prioritizing ideology, gut instincts, and upending the economic order has gone poorly for centuries. |
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|  | What Saint Augustine Can Teach us About Pope Leo XIV | Saint Augustine's life experiences shaped a world view that informs Pope Leo's leadership today. |
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|  | Why the Alien Enemies Act Should be Repealed | "The Alien Enemies Act is one of the worst laws still in force in the United States." |
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|  | How Capitalism Nearly Wiped Out America's Wildlife | It may just again, writes Dan Flores. |
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|  | What Donald Trump Gets Wrong About U.S. History | "To see American history as simply a narrative of heroism would be a lie unbecoming a great nation." |
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| | | | | This week in 1976: Paul McCartney |  | The May 31, 1976, cover of TIME |
| Richard E. Aaron |
| "McCartney, 33, is here, right now, in barnstorming triumph, making his first concert tour of the States since he and his three noted mates sang their last song together at San Francisco's Candlestick Park in the late summer of 1966. McCartney still draws many of the Beatles faithful, to be sure. He has also found a whole new audience, his audience. They have come to hear him, not history….'Looking at it purely bluntly,' McCartney reflects now, choosing the words carefully, 'there was sort of a dip for me and my writing. There were a couple of years when I had sort of an illness. I was a little dry. Now I'm not ill any more. I feel I'm doin' fine.'" |
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| | This week in 1985: Madonna |  | The May 27, 1985, cover of TIME |
| Francesco Scavullo |
| Madonna on her idols: "Growing up I thought nuns were very beautiful. For several years I wanted to be a nun, and I got very close to some of them in grade school and junior high. I saw them as really pure, disciplined, sort of above-average people. They never wore any makeup and they just had these really serene faces. Nuns are sexy. I also loved Carole Lombard and Judy Holliday and Marilyn Monroe…I just saw myself in them, my funniness and my need to boss people around and at the same time be taken care of. My girlishness. My knowingness and my innocence. Both. And I remember Nancy Sinatra singing These Boots Are Made for Walkin' and that made one hell of an impression on me. And when she said, 'Are you ready, boots, start walkin',' it was like, yeah, 'give me some of those go-go boots. I want to walk on a few people.'" |
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| This week in 2013: Angelina Jolie |  | The May 27, 2013, cover of TIME |
| Photo by Melodie McDaniel/Trunk Archive |
| "Angelina Jolie, the most beautiful woman in the world by a lot of people's lights, stepped forward and announced in an op-ed in the New York Times that she had undergone a double mastectomy, an operation she decided to have after learning that she carried a genetic mutation that in her case increased the odds of developing breast cancer to a terrible 87% and ovarian cancer to 50%...She has long been a symbol of the feminine ideal–which in its shorthand sense has meant feminine beauty. Her body has been a key dimension of her fame; now it may be an even bigger dimension of her influence. The loveliest and most resonant passages in her op-ed piece come during her brief description of her breast reconstruction: 'The results can be beautiful,' she reassured, adding that her children can see the small scars but that other than that, 'everything else is just Mommy.' With that, the most stunning woman in the world redefined beauty. That made us all a little smarter." |
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