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Russell Vought has been planning for this moment for years. President Trump’s budget chief—one of the main players in the government shutdown that has ground…
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Apple removes ICEBlock app from App Store
October 2, 2025
Apple has removed ICEBlock, an app that allowed users to monitor and report the location of immigration enforcement officers, from the App Store. “We created…
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Jill Lepore – “We the People” & Understanding How the Constitution Is Meant to Work | The Daily Show
October 1, 2025
“Just because we’ve written [the laws] down doesn’t mean that we can’t aspire to make things better.” Harvard law professor and staff writer at The…
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Judge Issues Rebuke of ‘Bullying’ Trump in Free Speech Case
October 1, 2025
The Trump administration’s crackdown on foreign students and academics violated the First Amendment by targeting them for expressing their political views, a federal judge ruled…
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DOE climate report could create problems for EPA
September 26, 2025
Science played only a bit part in EPA’s July proposal to scrap the scientific basis for most of its climate rules. In the final version,…
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Trump Energy Department eyes new must-run orders for power plants
September 26, 2025
The Trump administration is planning to issue new emergency orders to prevent aging fossil fuel power plants from retiring, ratcheting up the federal government’s intervention…
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How the Roberts Court became the Trump Court
September 25, 2025
Chief Justice John Roberts’ 20 years on the Supreme Court have been punctuated by a series of vivid episodes, from his confirmation hearings as he…
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Louisiana’s $3B power upgrade for Meta project raises questions about who should foot the bill
September 25, 2025
In a rural corner of Louisiana, Meta is building one of the world’s largest data centers, a $10 billion behemoth as big as 70 football…
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Taking a page from the private insurance industry’s playbook, the Trump administration will launch a program next year to find out how much money an…
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Jill Lepore’s new history of the U.S. Constitution could not be more relevant to the current moment in politics
September 24, 2025
On September 17, 1787, six years after fighting stopped in the war for independence, delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia signed the document that…
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How Much Water and Energy do Data Centers Consume? A New Jersey Bill Demands Answers.
September 24, 2025
A bill awaiting the signature of New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy could reshape the relationship between the state and one of the fastest-growing industries amid…
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One in 6 parents in the United States have delayed or skipped routine vaccinations for their kids, most often because they don’t believe the shots…
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ACLU files class-action lawsuit on behalf of detained immigrants denied bond hearings
September 24, 2025
The ACLU has filed a federal class-action lawsuit on behalf of immigrants who are being detained by ICE agents and denied bond hearings, contrary to…
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Can Liberalism Be Saved?
September 23, 2025
For several decades, Cass Sunstein has been one of the most prominent and prolific legal scholars in the United States. A onetime faculty member at…
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Draft Bill Would Authorize Trump to Wage Drug Trafficking War
September 19, 2025
Draft legislation is circulating at the White House and on Capitol Hill that would hand President Trump sweeping power to wage war against drug cartels…
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Blaming Charlie Kirk’s Assassination on Free Speech Is Dangerous
September 18, 2025
An op-ed by Noah Feldman: In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the Trump administration is following a very specific, very old script. It argues…
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Opinion: Ditch quarterly earnings like Trump says? What’s needed is better reporting — not less.
September 18, 2025
An op-ed co-written by Mark Roe: President Donald Trump has proposed that U.S. public companies issue semiannual reports instead of quarterly reports. In his view,…
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Why rescuing animals should never be a crime
September 17, 2025
An article co-written by Kristen Stilt: Imagine you see your neighbor’s dog drowning in their backyard pool. You call out for the neighbor and bang on…
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How to Prevent Our First A.I. President
September 17, 2025
An op-ed by Jill Lepore: In 2016, Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, read James Madison’s notes on the Constitutional Convention of 1787 because, he…
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Ice puts more than 10,000 people in solitary in a year – and figures are rising under Trump
September 17, 2025
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) put more than 10,500 people in solitary confinement between April 2024 and May 2025, and use of the practice…
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Guest: Sharon Block Title: Professor of practice and executive director, Center for Labor and a Just Economy, Harvard Law School
Summary: The August jobs…