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Elon Musk Has Inherited Twitter’s India Problem
November 14, 2022
One night last February, Indian police showed up at the home address of a Twitter employee in New Delhi. There, the employee was served with…
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Where VA’s efforts to help LGBTQ+ vets and their families fall short
November 10, 2022
An op-ed written by Nathan Lowry [JD ’24] and David Paul [JD ’24]: By the time Rhett Chalk died in 2020 from wounds he sustained…
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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…
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The Tree Branch from The Last Archive
November 10, 2022
On this episode of her American history podcast The Last Archive, Noah Feldman’s colleague Jill Lepore offers an alternate history. What would the world might…
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The Last Archive
November 10, 2022
Trial by Teenager, Part 1: What if there were a way to stop politicians from lying on social media? Jill Lepore heads to a local…
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Pioneers and Pathfinders: Dr. Heidi K. Gardner Returns
November 10, 2022
Today we welcome back our premiere guest, Dr. Heidi K. Gardner. An economist by training, she is a distinguished fellow at Harvard Law School’s Center…
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Longest-Ever Serving State Attorney General Defeated in Iowa (2)
November 10, 2022
Iowa Democrat Tom Miller, the longest-ever serving state attorney general who took on everyone from Big Tobacco to Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, was…
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Elon Musk’s Twitter lays off employees across the company
November 9, 2022
Twitter on Friday laid off thousands of employees in departments across the company, in a severe round of cost cutting that could potentially upend how…
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Mr. Attorney General, It’s Too Late to Appoint A Special Counsel
November 9, 2022
An article co-written by Laurence Tribe: The Justice Department has reportedly been considering the appointment of a Special Counsel to complete investigations of former President…
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UN Denied Justice to Lead-Poisoned Kosovo Roma Refugees: Report
November 9, 2022
The United Nations manipulated its own accountability mechanisms to thwart justice for Roma, Ashkali and Balkan Egyptian refugees who were poisoned while living in UN-operated…
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An article co-written by Michael Ashley Stein: The law presumes that individuals are rational. The reasonable individual, a hypothetical figure whose actions judges and juries…
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The Reactionary Court
November 8, 2022
An article written by Charles Fried: To the Editors: Jed S. Rakoff’s fine review of Brad Snyder’s biography of Felix Frankfurter [NYR, November 3] is…
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As FERC’s transmission proposal sparks clashes, potential solutions emerge from MISO, elsewhere
November 8, 2022
FERC’s proposal to reform transmission planning has provoked a confrontation over federal and state control of transmission expansion, prompting some stakeholders to call for new…
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Op-Ed: The evidence that Republicans are using technicalities to toss out Democratic ballots
November 8, 2022
An op-ed by Laurence Tribe: It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that Republican officials, too often abetted by federal judges appointed by Republican presidents, are…
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Good news for democracy: Voters are embracing early voting
November 8, 2022
No matter the outcome of the midterm elections, there is some good news for American democracy: Voters are increasingly embracing early voting. Now, voting-rights advocates…
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Florida medical boards vote to ban gender-affirming care for youth
November 8, 2022
On Friday, two Florida medical boards – Florida Board of Medicine and the Florida Board of Osteopathic Medicine – voted to institute a ban on…
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An essay by Jeannie Suk Gersen: On Monday, I was at the Supreme Court for five hours of oral arguments on affirmative action. In constitutional…
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The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a second request to block the Biden administration’s student loan debt relief program. Justice Amy Coney Barrett denied an…
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Musk’s celebrity lawyer now plays key role in Twitter overhaul
November 7, 2022
A year ago, attorney Alex Spiro helped rapper Jay-Z win a lawsuit over perfume royalties. This week, he was part of a team that fired…
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Waiting is hard . . .
November 7, 2022
I spoke to the Bay Area Coalition on Saturday as they began a day of phone banking in the final stretch to the election. I…
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Opinion/Solutions: Doctors prescribe healthy meals to keep patients out of the hospital
November 7, 2022
For more than 50 years, Meals on Wheels had been delivering healthy meals to thousands of older adults in Portland, Ore. Then, a local hospital…