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How the Anti-Saloon League, responsible for Prohibition, shaped modern racist policing

New York police on motorcycles wrap a demonstration in fog to prevent the demonstrators at the march-past in front of a building in which President Herbert Hoover is speaking in New York, 1930. (Photo by Imagno/Hulton Archive/Getty)

Prohibition created the perfect storm for the mass incarceration of ethnic minorities, who’d been driven into the contraband trade through inequality of economic opportunity, then zealously policed for being involved

The untold story of the Ritchie Boys

How German-Jewish refugees who fled the Nazis gathered military intelligence in Europe for the U.S.

REVIEW: Glock: The Rise of America’s Gun

Book by Paul Barrett