Hear Michael Fay talk about his experience.

Read about how democracies can become authoritarian systems.

Read the WHOLE Declaration of Independence.

Read the Articles of Confederation.

Read Federalist Papers #10 and #84.

Read Federalist #51.

Read the WHOLE Constitution.

Read Emily Bazelon’s essay on norms.

Read Article 1, Section 8.

See what happens when states pass laws that conflict with national law.

Read the text of Marbury v. Madison, McCulloch v. Maryland, and Gibbons v. Ogden.

Read the WHOLE Bill of Rights.

If you didn’t read Federalist Paper #84 in Chapter 2, this would be a great time to check it out.

Read about Fred Korematsu being honored with a Google Doodle.

And, almost as important, watch as he was presented a presidential medal of honor by President Bill Clinton.

Watch the excellent movie about the boycott called The Long Walk Home.

Check out the committee structure for the 116th Congress.

Get a feel for what a day in the life of a member of Congress is like.

Read Olympia Snowe’s article, “Why I Am Leaving the Senate.”

Check out FiveThirtyEight’s series, “The Gerrymandering Project” to see possible solutions to gerrymandered districts.

Watch President George W. Bush addressing rescue workers at Ground Zero and President Obama signing “Amazing Grace”—both efforts to pull the country together!

In 2018, Emmett Till’s case was reopened, although it is not clear whether the action will be anything other than symbolic. Read about the reopening of the case.

Read about the challenges of police reform.

Read about the controversy surrounding kneeling during the national anthem.

For a classic movie about a case that found its way to the Supreme Court, and a look at the mechanics of judicial decision-making, watch Gideon’s Trumpet.

Refresh your memory about what Madison had to say in Federalist Paper #10.

Read this important article about hyperpartisanship by Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein.

For a poignant, fictional look at the demise of the old-fashioned party machine, check out the 1958 film The Last Hurrah.

Watch here to see how that has changed.

Gallup has a fun interactive site that allows you to compare the approval trends of up to four presidents at a time, going back to Harry Truman.

Make your voice heard. Sign up for an online polling panel at Civiqs and YouGov.

Read Ronald Brownstein’s essay here.

Read about how Farrow landed his big story about Weinstein.

Watch the movie The Post, which dramatizes the newspaper’s decision to publish the Pentagon Papers and bring the Watergate scandal to light.

Check out these interactive features at the New York Times and hear the podcast at Pod Save America.

Check out some sound advice about the “fake news fix” from the owners of Axios.

Watch Park Avenue, the PBS documentary by Alex Gibney about the gap between the rich and the poor in the United States.

Check out the movie The Big Short, which dramatizes the causes of the 2008 financial collapse.

Watch the movie Black Hawk Down for a portrayal of the complexities of the post–Cold War era of foreign policy.

Read about the challenges posed by artificial intelligence in the article “Why Technology Favors Tyranny” by Yuval Noah Harari.