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Jill Lepore
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The Architect of Our Divided Supreme Court
January 23, 2024
An article by Jill Lepore: “Mrs. Justice Holmes died on Tuesday night,” the Supreme Court’s Chief Justice, William Howard Taft, reported on May 5, 1929.
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Civil War Confederate President Wasn’t Tried, Why It Matters In Trump Case | Amanpour and Company
December 7, 2023
Donald Trump made history as the first U.S. president to be criminally indicted. But he is not the first ex-president to undergo prosecution. In her…
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An article by Jill Lepore: Jefferson Davis, the half-blind ex-President of the Confederate States of America, leaned on a cane as he hobbled into a…
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American democracy is cracking. These forces help explain why.
November 20, 2023
In a country where the search for common ground is increasingly elusive, many Americans can agree on this: They believe the political system is broken…
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Journalist Jill Lepore compiles new book of essays, “The Deadline”
October 31, 2023
Our guest Jill Lepore is a writer with an amazing gift for drawing connections between the historical and the contemporary. She connects dots like no…
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Scholars probe urgent issues facing Harvard and the world
October 2, 2023
Panels examine challenges ahead: riven democracies, biomedical advances, raging inequity, climate change, harnessing AI, role of academy
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The World According to Elon Musk’s Grandfather
September 20, 2023
An article by Jill Lepore: This month, Elon Musk threatened to sue the Anti-Defamation League, alleging that its denunciation of X—the A.D.L. had accused the…
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How Elon Musk Went from Superhero to Supervillain
September 11, 2023
An article by Jill Lepore: In 2021, Elon Musk became the world’s richest man (no woman came close), and Time named him Person of the…
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Jill Lepore, award-winning American historian and New Yorker writer, joins Harvard Law faculty
August 31, 2023
Jill Lepore, award-winning American historian and writer, will join the Harvard Law School faculty as a professor of law.
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Jill Lepore has seen the inside of time
August 30, 2023
The concept of a deadline is a complicated one for Jill Lepore. In addition to the obvious meaning — her new book, “The Deadline,” is…
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Jill Lepore Revisits American Myths With an Eye to the Present
August 28, 2023
In 1636, at the height of the Dutch economic hysteria known as Tulipomania, John Harvard helped found the first college of the American colonies. I…
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How to Stave Off Constitutional Extinction
July 5, 2023
An op-ed by Jill Lepore: Every Fourth of July, Americans celebrate independence, but it might be more significant, more pregnant with meaning, to celebrate amendment…
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An op-ed by Nancy Gertner: In November 2018, when then-president Donald Trump challenged a federal judge’s impartiality by calling him an “Obama judge,” Supreme Court…
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President Warren G. Harding was in danger of facing criminal charges in 1921 in the Teapot Dome bribery scandal, but he died in office first.
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What the January 6th Report Is Missing
January 9, 2023
An article by Jill Lepore: The Government Publishing Office’s eight-hundred-and-forty-five-page report of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States…
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Facebook and the problem of truth
December 15, 2022
In a new podcast, Harvard Law Professors Jonathan Zittrain and Jill Lepore road-test an idea to enlist high school students across the country as “advertisement juries.”
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The Case Against the Twitter Apology
November 14, 2022
An article written by Jill Lepore: Whose P.R.-purposed apology was worse? Al Franken’s or Louis C.K.’s? The Equifax C.E.O.’s (for a cybersecurity breach) or Papa…
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Trial by Teenager, Part 2
November 10, 2022
The fact-checking experiment gets scaled up with 40 students in two states. The Super Bowl of fact-checking, a final test of an idea that might…