Bad Law
Subtitle: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America
Publisher: New Press, The
Published: 2025
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781620978580
Copyright date: 2025
Subjects: Law, united states
First sentence: The law is not a set of objective rules.
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: Why Isn’t Everyone Registered to Vote?
pagenum: 13; label: 2
title: How Did Immigrants Become “Illegal”?
pagenum: 31; label: 3
title: Who Gave Away the Skies to the Airlines?
pagenum: 49; label: 4
title: Why Do We Incarcerate So Many People?
pagenum: 69; label: 5
title: Why Do We Protect Arms Dealers?
pagenum: 89; label: 6
title: How can You Murder Someone If You Didn’t Kill Anybody
pagenum: 113; label: 7
title: Why Do We Give White Guys a License to Kill Black People?
pagenum: 133; label: Interlude
title: Why Is the Second Amendment So Violent and Stupid?
pagenum: 155; label: 8
title: How Did They Fit the Federal Budgets Inside People’s Wombs?
pagenum: 163; label: 9
title: Why Can’t We Say Gay?
pagenum: 181; label: 10
title: Who Died and Put God in Charge of Our Laws?
pagenum: 199; label: Epilogue
title: How to Fix Bad Laws
pagenum: 219; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 231; title: Notes
pagenum: 233