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ABC’s Decision to Settle Trump’s Defamation Suit Makes Sense
December 17, 2024
An op-ed by Noah Feldman: Donald Trump loves to sue people for defamation to scare them out of making negative statements about him. In a…
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Confused by ‘best by’ or ‘use by’ labels? The FDA wants your input to reduce food waste
December 17, 2024
The can of chickpeas in the pantry has a “best by” date that passed two weeks ago. The loaf of bread on the countertop boasts…
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Maine’s voter-approved limit on PAC contributions triggers lawsuit in federal court
December 16, 2024
A pair of conservative groups on Friday challenged a Maine law that limits donations to political action committees that spend independently in candidate elections, arguing…
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How Biden Should Spend His Final Weeks in Office
December 16, 2024
The days are dwindling to a precious few before President Biden relinquishes his tenancy at the White House to Donald Trump. Four years ago, in…
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Why Biden should pardon everyone on Trump’s enemies list
December 16, 2024
An article by Jay Michaelson: When President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter, most of the pundit class was outraged. Conservative commentators, of course, accused…
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Trump’s Choice to Run Energy Says Fossil Fuels Are Virtuous
December 13, 2024
Chris Wright, the fracking magnate and likely next U.S. energy secretary, makes a moral case for fossil fuels. His position, laid out in speeches and…
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Police investigating Utah mom-fluencer after online uproar over video she posted of her son
December 13, 2024
The Utah mom influencer behind the viral “17 diapers” trend is being investigated by police after an internet uproar over a video that appeared to…
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The Greater Boston Eviction Crisis Will Hurt You, Too
December 12, 2024
Morning light spilled over Boston as Noreli Vasquez unlocked the black front door of her brick walkup near Maverick Square in East Boston. Tired after…
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Tesla, Intel and the fecklessness of corporate boards
December 12, 2024
Sitting on the board of a large American company is at once the plummest and most thankless work in business. Plum because, when everything is…
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How Trump Will Lawfully Appoint Loyalists Without Senate Consent
December 12, 2024
An article by Jack Goldsmith: President-elect Donald Trump’s Nov. 10 tweet on the possibility of recess appointments for his nominees set off a flurry of…
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US Food Date Labels Are Broken. The Government Is Trying to Fix Them.
December 11, 2024
There’s a good chance that you or someone you know has trashed perfectly good food over confusion about date labels. Now, the US government is…
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Supreme Court showdown over Uinta Basin Railway puts environmental law in the crosshairs
December 10, 2024
A Colorado local government’s challenge to a controversial oil-by-rail project in eastern Utah has teed up the conservative-dominated U.S. Supreme Court to take its biggest…
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Surprise! America is less polarized than it used to be.
December 9, 2024
An op-ed by Nicholas Stephanopoulos: Here’s a shocker: One of the unnoticed themes of the recent election was depolarization. The electoral chasms between groups of…
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Mexico just put animal welfare into its national constitution
December 9, 2024
This week was a big win for animals across Mexico. On December 2, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum signed a set of constitutional reforms that will…
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The Demise and Afterlife of Donald Trump’s Criminal Cases
December 9, 2024
An essay by Jeannie Suk Gersen: A year before Donald Trump became the first former President to be criminally indicted, I expressed my hope, on…
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Why the Naval Academy Gets to Keep Affirmative Action
December 9, 2024
An op-ed by Noah Feldman: In 2023, the US Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in private and public university admissions. Now a federal district…
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Harvard’s Peabody museum returns Native American burial remains
December 6, 2024
Nearly 150 years after a Harvard University scientist removed Native American burial remains from a gravesite in Upstate New York, the ancestors’ remains and other…
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Charges against Shelley Joseph come at crucial time for judiciary
December 6, 2024
The new disciplinary charges against Judge Shelley M. Richmond Joseph, who’s accused of helping an immigrant evade federal agents in her Newton courtroom in 2018,…
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High Court Argument Promotes Targeted Limits on Transgender Care
December 6, 2024
The Biden administration’s concession this week that states can reasonably limit when minors may receive gender-affirming care could provide a stronger legal basis for state…
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PSE&G to pay $6.6M for inaccurately reporting need for local PJM transmission project
December 6, 2024
Public Service Electric and Gas agreed to pay $6.6 million to settle allegations it gave the PJM Interconnection inaccurate information about a $546 million transmission…
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Garland took too long to put wheels of justice in motion vs. Trump
December 6, 2024
A letter by Nancy Gertner: Kimberly Atkins Stohr’s column “Don’t blame Garland and Smith for the failed prosecutions of Trump” misses the mark (Opinion, Nov.