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The woman who made the miniskirt a legend also changed the world

3 years 5 months ago
Accounts of Swinging London inspire the same cocktail of thrill and suspicion in me as promises of supercheap Airbnbs and waterproof phones: It sounds too wonderful to be true. Yet while the 1960s probably didn't pass in a haze of Beatlemania and carefree chain-smoking for everyone, a fortunate few appear to have had a genuine blast. One such unicorn was Mary Quant, the fashion revolutionary who died this week aged 93.

Is honking your horn a First Amendment right?

3 years 5 months ago
Ticketed for honking at a political protest, a California woman lost her case claiming the law infringed on her Constitutional right to free speech. "Political expression takes all sorts of forms," says First Amendment expert Gautam Hans, who filed a brief on her behalf, "and this is one that's very longstanding."
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