Adam Winkler

Adam Winkler, a professor at UCLA School of Law specializing in constitutional law, is the author of Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America and, most recently, We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights. (February 2018)

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When Corporations Became People

Huey Long was a populist who championed the little guy over big business, but his attempt to muzzle the press ultimately empowered the very corporate interests against which he so often inveighed.

February 28, 2018

Disarming the NRA

The Second Amendment does not stand in the way of better gun laws; the NRA does. Yet just as electoral politics, rather than the words of the Second Amendment, is the source of the NRA’s power, the democratic process is how the NRA can be defeated. Change is possible.

October 5, 2017

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