This Detroit scene was repeated across the nation, January, 16, 1920, as shoppers stocked up on the last day before Prohibition took effect. Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University On ...

Both supporters and detractors understood the so-called "beer emergency" as a referendum on Prohibition itself, a test of the federal government's right to regulate vice and dictate professional ...

Some advocates have concluded that it is finally time to consider the nuclear option—a prohibition on the manufacture and sale of cigarettes. While we all share the frustration, in the United States, ...