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In the 1918 Supreme Court case Hammer v. Dagenhart, the justices struck down a federal law that tried to ban child labor. They said Congress couldn’t use its power over “commerce” (trade between states) to regulate how factories made goods, even if kids were working there.

In the shadowy underbelly of 1980s cinema, David Cronenberg’s Scanners (1981) emerges not as mere science fiction horror, but as a chilling blueprint for government-orchestrated mind control in a post-modern dystopia. Often misremembered as a 1970s relic, this film explodes onto the screen with psychic mutants—known as “scanners”—whose telepathic abilities to invade minds, manipulate bodies, […]