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A famous sign on the Oval Office desk of President Harry Truman read, “The buck stops here.” But if President Trump were to put one…
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More than 150 former state and federal judges have signed a letter to Pam Bondi, the attorney general, condemning the Trump administration’s escalating battles with…
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Keep it or toss it? Date label confusion causing people to waste ‘perfectly good food,’ expert says
May 7, 2025
Buying groceries takes a big bite — a really big bite — out of a family’s budget today. What’s worse is that Americans throw away…
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Who’s the Greatest Grifter of Them All?
May 7, 2025
On Sept. 9, 2024, the F.B.I.’s criminal investigative division reported that “as the use of cryptocurrency in the global financial system continues to grow, so…
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Activist investors gunning for board seats face an even steeper climb as the leading US business courts embrace a hands-off approach to onerous nomination bylaws…
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The Lead With Jake Tapper
May 6, 2025
Laurence Tribe provides commentary on President Trump claiming to not know if he needs to uphold the Constitution as president, his remarks about due process,…
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We Have to Deal With Presidential Power
May 5, 2025
An op-ed by Jack Goldsmith: Donald Trump’s wrecking-ball second term has revealed the full latent power of the presidency. His administration has done this most clearly…
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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…
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Newsroom
May 5, 2025
Laurence Tribe provides commentary on President Trump’s plan to revoke Harvard University’s tax exempt status and more.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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.
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…