Archive
Media Mentions
-
An op-ed by Alan Charles Raul: The U.S. district and appeals courts are inundated with fast-moving cases challenging President Donald Trump for (among other things) dismantling…
-
Newsroom
May 5, 2025
Laurence Tribe provides commentary on President Trump’s plan to revoke Harvard University’s tax exempt status and more.
-
President Trump lit another firestorm on social media Friday morning, vowing to end Harvard University‘s tax-exempt status. The threat, if realized, would mean the university…
-
In his first hours back as president, Donald J. Trump did an extraordinary thing: He made a direct assault on the Constitution. He declared that…
-
Five Questions with Cass R. Sunstein
May 2, 2025
Cass R. Sunstein ’75, J.D. ’78, is currently the Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School, where he also directs the Program on Behavioral Economics…
-
Andrea Colamedici invented a philosopher, presented him as an author and produced a book, secretly generated with the help of artificial intelligence, about manipulating reality…
-
In the first of a series of virtual events on the most pressing issues emerging from the second Trump administration, Fintan O’Toole hosts Sherrilyn Ifill,…
-
Lawyers choose their clients. Federal prosecutors need independence. And judges expect their orders to be followed. Those foundations of the American legal system are being…
-
An op-ed by Noah Feldman: A president’s first 100 days are traditionally measured by how much he’s created and accomplished through legislation, leadership, and executive action.
-
One hundred days into the second Trump administration, many environmentalists’ worst fears about the new presidency have been realized—and surpassed. Facing a spate of orders,…
-
Nearly every president has pushed the bounds of executive power to try to achieve something specific. And a handful of presidents who took office during…
-
President Donald Trump’s firing spree that targeted officials at five independent workplace agencies has left three of them hobbled as his administration reaches the end…
-
Lab Animals Face Being Euthanized as Trump Cuts Research
April 29, 2025
On April 1, the Trump administration’s effort to slash government funding arrived in Morgantown, W.Va., where federal scientists spent their days studying health and safety…
-
When the REI store in Berkeley voted to unionize in 2022, Michael Robin envisioned the company hammering out solutions during negotiations over top employee priorities,…
-
Cruelty and Intimidation are the Goals
April 29, 2025
An article by Nancy Gertner: Make no mistake. The recent arrest of Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan is not about the enforcement of our nation’s immigration laws.
-
A Hundred Classics to Get Me Through a Hundred Days of Trump
April 28, 2025
An op-ed by Jill Lepore: On the twentieth of January, the year of our Lord 2025, Donald Trump’s one hundred days began. Thank you. Thank you…
-
After a routine Supreme Court argument on Wednesday, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. asked the lawyer who had represented the government to return to…
-
Trump Is Insatiable
April 25, 2025
As President Trump’s assault on America’s civic institutions approaches its 100th day, the question is whether those charged with maintaining the integrity of Congress, the…