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How the Decision to Start a War Became the President’s
March 5, 2026
Since World War II, presidents of both parties have found ways to hollow out the Constitution’s constraints on their power to order military attacks. President…
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Do U.S. Presidents Have the Power to Declare War?
March 5, 2026
An article by Jill Lepore: Whether a nation has just cause to begin a war and whether it conducts that war justly are matters of…
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The Trump administration is turning to rarely used laws to circumvent environmental restrictions and expand logging in certain Pacific Northwest forests, legal analysts and advocates…
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Seven major technology companies that rely on power-guzzling data centers to train their AI models signed a pledge promising to pay more for electricity in…
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Is social media responsible for what happens to users?
March 4, 2026
A Los Angeles jury will decide whether Meta’s Instagram and Google’s YouTube are addictive and causing harm to teenagers and children — and whether they…
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An op-ed by Jody Freeman: On February 12, the Environmental Protection Agency rescinded its “endangerment finding” for greenhouse gases, claiming it lacks authority to regulate…
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The Supreme Court Has a Marijuana Problem
March 4, 2026
An op-ed by Noah Feldman: The 17.7 million Americans who use marijuana daily or near-daily can relax: The Supreme Court appears poised to hold that…
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Secret food chemicals: New analysis finds over 100 unreviewed substances added to products
March 4, 2026
Over 100 chemicals of unknown safety are hiding in the food Americans eat every day – including sports drinks, snack bars, cereals and much more…
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US politicians are racing to tame the soaring cost of electricity that threatens to upend this year’s congressional elections. The Energy Department has loaned $26.5…
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‘They don’t even pretend to comply’: Mass. agencies, cities, and towns openly flout open record law
March 4, 2026
President Trump unleashed his immigration crackdown on the country, and in Boston last June, Mayor Michelle Wu demanded answers as federal agents scoured her city.
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An article by Duncan Levin: The most shocking thing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Tuesday wasn’t about the border. It was about your front…
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Was Targeting Ayatollah Khamenei and Other Iranian Leaders Lawful? What Precedents Does It Set?
March 4, 2026
An article co-written by Michael Schmitt: The most recent round of hostilities between Iran, on one hand, and Israel and the United States, on the…
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Growing up in rural Georgia, Shirley Sherrod saw firsthand how Black farmers can lose their land and their lives trying to protect it. Her father,…
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Big Tech is set to agree to build its own power plants for data centres and shield consumers from rising electricity costs, but companies face…
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An article by Jill Lepore: Just after noon on July 1, 1976—an otherwise sleepy Thursday except that it was less than seventy-two hours until the…
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An op-ed by Noah Feldman: When you bomb a country and take out its leader, that’s an act of war. Under the Constitution, Congress must…
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Trump Has No Power to Nationalize Elections
March 2, 2026
An op-ed by Noah Feldman: The Trump administration is reportedly preparing an executive order to attempt to nationalize aspects of the midterm elections, despite a…
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The biggest legal case the music industry has seen in years will open Monday in a New York courtroom, as Live Nation, the concert giant…
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Harvard Law Professor Mark Wu on the Supreme Court’s tariff ruling
February 27, 2026
“The Chief Justice’s decision today makes clear that when there is a major question of this sort, what the Chief Justice refers to as a…
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Founding Fathers Guarded Against ‘Show Me Your Papers’ ICE Raids
February 27, 2026
An op-ed by Alan Charles Raul: Joe Rogan was onto something about America when he decried the federal government’s immigration enforcement tactics on his popular…
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We now know the full scale of Trump’s federal workforce cuts
February 26, 2026
The federal workforce shrunk by nearly 220,000 people last year, close to 10 percent, according to a Globe analysis of federal data. Almost every agency…