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The signing of an executive order Wednesday to begin construction of a border wall along the entire length of the U.S. border with Mexico is not the first time the executive branch has pushed...

https://fsrn.org/2017/01/hindsight-barriers-on-the-border-fsrn-documentary-on-the-2008-border-wall-push/

In a Washington Post op-ed, President Obama announced dramatic reforms to the federal prison system’s use of solitary confinement, including slashing the amount of time an individual should spe...

https://fsrn.org/2016/01/hindsight-steven-czifra-from-solitary-confinement-to-uc-berkeley/

In May of 2013, a Guatemalan court found the country’s former de facto president guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity and sentenced him to 80 years in prison. The historic trial of Ge...

https://fsrn.org/2015/01/hindsight-historic-guatemala-genocide-trial-begins-again/

Scottish voters will head to the polls Thursday to vote on independence from the United Kingdom. The referendum is the result of several years of political organizing and maneuvering. In 2008, To...

https://fsrn.org/2014/09/hindsight-the-buildup-to-the-scottish-independence-referendum/

A human-rights activist in India who’s been on hunger strike for nearly 14 years and in police custody for much of that time may soon be free. An Indian court today ruled that charges...

https://fsrn.org/2014/08/hindsight-sharmila-irom/

Access to emergency contraception, also known as “the morning after pill,” was at the heart of today’s arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court. Two for-profit companies, Hobby Lobby and Con...

https://fsrn.org/2014/03/hindsight-access-to-emergency-contraception/

This week marks the 10-year anniversary of the coup that  ousted Haitian president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The coup, which some anti-Aristide forces refer to as a “rebellion,” occurred over...

https://fsrn.org/2014/03/hindsight-haitians-on-the-2004-ouster-of-aristide/

High-ranking officials in the U.S. and in Mexico have celebrated Saturday’s arrest of Sinaloa Cartel leader, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.The man whose nickname means “Shorty” in English...

https://fsrn.org/2014/02/history-from-the-archives-cartel-kingpin-arrests-power-vacuums-and-violence/

More than a decade after the US-led invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Department of Defense employs over 80,000 contractors in the two countries, according to its 1st quarter FY 2014 census....

https://fsrn.org/2014/02/history-from-the-archive-billions-for-war-contracts/

Eighteen members of Congress yesterday sent a letter to President Barack Obama, urging him to remove marijuana from the list of drugs with federal Schedule I classification, which determines that...

https://fsrn.org/2014/02/history-from-the-archive-medical-marijuana-2002-vs-2014/