| | By Made by History / Produced by Olivia B. Waxman | Habeas corpus, the right to challenge one's detention, is a fundamental right dating back centuries. Today, the Trump Administration is attacking habeas by deporting people without process and threatening to suspend it altogether. These attacks strike at the heart of the American project. As Zara Anishanslin writes in Made by History, at the nation's founding, American revolutionaries understood that the suspension of habeas corpus posed a grievous threat to all. When American Patriot Ebenezer Smith Platt was captured, detained, and transported across the seas to be imprisoned, his right to habeas corpus was denied and his story became a rallying cry against tyranny. Attention to his case inspired both outrage and resolve—to uphold our most cherished rights, lest they disappear entirely. | |
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| | | | | This week in 1969: The Sexual Revolution |  | The July 11, 1969, cover of TIME |
| Friedman-Abeles |
| "The issue is as old as the fig leaf, as new as tomorrow's nude-theater opening. An erotic renaissance (or rot, as some would have it) is upon the land. Owing to a growing climate of permissiveness and the Pill, Americans today have more sexual freedom than any previous generation, Whatever changes have occurred in sex as behavior, the most spectacular are evident in sex as a spectator sport. What seems truly startling is not so much what Americans do but what they may see, hear and read. In those respects, the U.S. is now by far the freest country in the Western world…The point has been made briefly: anything can be shown. Now perhaps the time has come to remember that not everything has to be shown." |
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| | This week in 1975: Elton John |  | The July 7, 1975, cover of TIME |
| Don Weller |
| "Now, in every home town that seems like the end of the world to its moping teen-age inhabitants, Reg Dwight, 28, and ever so much better known as Elton John, has become the repository of a million escapist dreams. He is the symbol of the often battered, never completely shattered juvenile faith that no one is too short, too fat, too awkward or parentally despised to be transformed into someone who is not only famous and rich, but—infinitely more important—loved by the multitudes. So far, so routine. But no one stays at the top of the pop charts for any length of time without twanging chords that reverberate in the teen-age psyche. What sets Elton apart is the fact that his appeal knows no demographic limits." |
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| This week in 2001: Julia Roberts |  | The July 9, 2001, cover of TIME |
| TIME |
| "Enter Julia Roberts, bearing an Oscar. In this free-market free-for-all, she epitomizes the paradox of being the best. Is Roberts the best American actress? That little statue is a sign that she can sometimes be a screen presence to reckon with, but in any ballot of the most accomplished performers, she would meet heavy competition from Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Julianne Moore and Kathy Bates, to name a few. But Best Movie Star? No contest. And that's because she is the biggest female box-office draw, even in films that are often of so-so quality. She does best the thing that only movie stars do. By the mysterious force of her public persona, she digs a channel into our most closely guarded yearnings." |
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