Sandra McDaniel

In 1979, after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, President Jimmy Carter imposed a grain embargo and assembled an international coalition to boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, above. Carter also restricted Soviet fishing in American waters and suspended commercial Soviet flights. In 1982, President Reagan banned flights after a Soviet-led military crackdown in Poland. […]

Zucht v. King (1922) The ruling in Jacobson vs. Massachusetts was invoked in a challenge of a vaccination requirement to attend school. High school student Rosalyn Zucht refused the smallpox vaccine in 1922, claiming there was no outbreak, and that she was being deprived of her liberty to opt out. The Supreme Court found that […]

Why do they matter now? New York State’s eviction moratorium ended Oct. 12, and housing court has resumed for some qualifying cases, as it has some other states. The Department of Investigation confirms that marshals can now return to processing evictions though a city directive notes there are important exceptions. Nationally, there has been a […]

Contact tracing has long been used to combat the spread of sexually transmitted diseases like syphilis in the 1930s, and HIV in the 1980s. But the practice has raised privacy concerns. Contract tracing was a crucial public health tool in stopping the spread of the deadly Ebola virus in 2014. Over 150 people who came […]