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Media Mentions
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California’s defense attorneys for years saw their Black and Latino clients sent to death row at a rate much higher than other defendants accused of…
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How reforming the Supreme Court could backfire on Democrats
August 24, 2026
Labeling the Supreme Court “basically a subsidiary of the MAGA Republican Party,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) recently called for “dramatic” reforms. Furious over…
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OpenAI’s Two-Week Pause + Jill Lepore on the Threat of the “Artificial State” + Train of Thought
August 21, 2026
This week, we learned that OpenAI had stopped training new artificial intelligence models while the company reviewed its security measures. Will this encourage other labs…
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Trump vs. the International Criminal Court
August 20, 2026
President Trump has never liked the International Criminal Court. In his first term, he called it a “threat” to American sovereignty. Secretary of State Marco…
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Harvard Students Can Cope With Getting a B
August 19, 2026
An op-ed by Noah Feldman: University policies on grades, like grades themselves, run along a wide spectrum. Harvard, my alma mater and my employer, wants…
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Banned from owning power plants, NY utilities now want to build solar and wind farms
August 19, 2026
State regulators are considering whether to allow utilities in New York to once again generate their own power. The state forced utilities to sell off…
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With the fate of his ballroom tied up in court, President Trump is racing against the clock. He has enlisted a team of 250 workers…
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A federal judge on Wednesday signaled she’s likely to block the Environmental Protection Agency’s effort to nullify California’s Clean Air Act waivers, which allow the…
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Democracy v the machine: the birth of the digital age and the warnings that were ignored
August 18, 2026
An article by Jill Lepore: One of the stranger things about this dizzying, headlong moment in time is that it doesn’t have much of a…
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AI vs the people
August 17, 2026
An essay by Jill Lepore: This year marks the first AI election. Voters are asking chatbots how they should vote. Campaigns and activists are using…
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Tahlequah is home to two federally recognized Cherokee tribes. But only one, the Cherokee Nation, is the successor to the reservation in the eyes of…
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Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and the Misreading of Science Fiction
August 17, 2026
An essay by Jill Lepore: Why does anyone care what Elon Musk thinks of Homer’s Odyssey, or Christopher Nolan’s? Musk is promising to use AI…
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Gerrymandering won. It’s time to change the rules.
August 14, 2026
An op-ed by Ruth Greenwood: Seven years ago, I lost a redistricting case in the Supreme Court. I didn’t just lose — the court ruled…
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Why States Are the Key to the Modern Labor Movement
August 14, 2026
An article by Sharon Block and Benjamin Sachs: Unions have a history of coming together when workers need them most. During the Gilded Age of…
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An op-ed by Noah Feldman: The Trump administration’s latest assertions about executive privilege — that it protects the confidentiality of a president’s communication with private…
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Banned from owning power plants, NY utilities now want to build solar and wind farms
August 13, 2026
State regulators are considering whether to allow utilities in New York to once again generate their own power. The state forced utilities to sell off…
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California, Maine in Trump’s Crosshairs Again Over Vaccines
August 13, 2026
President Donald Trump paved the way for federal litigation against states already targeted by his administration with an order this week on childhood vaccines that…
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Trump Wants to Expand Executive Privilege
August 13, 2026
The Trump administration’s latest assertions about executive privilege — that it protects the privacy of a president’s communication with private advisers who aren’t part of…
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As a pink-and-gold sunset faded over the waterside Ben Hotel, Republican state utility officials streamed out of a reception where they had been imbibing with…
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DOJ Settlements Perceived As Flouting Litigation Norms
August 12, 2026
A trend of settlements between the Trump administration and friendly parties in fast-track lawsuits to pursue policy changes has legal experts concerned about the endurance…
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Should Wachtell Litigators Launch Their Own Boutique Firm?
August 12, 2026
Last month, star litigator William Savitt left Wachtell Lipton, where he had co-chaired both the executive committee and litigation department, and joined Gibson Dunn. Five…