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Will Starbucks’ union-busting stifle a union rebirth in the US?
September 5, 2023
With more than 340 victories at Starbucks stores across the US, the campaign to organize the coffee chain’s workers is one of the most successful…
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This New Hampshire lawsuit may not boot Trump off the ballot. But it won’t be the last attempt.
September 5, 2023
As GOP front-runner Donald Trump battles criminal charges in four separate cases, he is also beginning to confront another legal threat to his candidacy: the…
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Constitution Bars Trump From Presidency
September 5, 2023
Constitutional law scholar Laurence Tribe, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor of Constitutional Law Emeritus at Harvard University, discusses his article, written with former federal…
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The Lies in Your Grocery Store
September 5, 2023
In 2021, Duval Clemmons, a retiree from the West Bronx, went to his local BJ’s Wholesale Club and discovered a pleasant surprise in the dairy…
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Balance of Power 09/01/2023
September 5, 2023
“Balance of Power” focuses on the intersection of politics and global business. On the show today, Maya MacGuineas, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget President,…
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Drugs Up for Medicare Price Cuts Fuel Drugmakers’ Legal Strategy
September 5, 2023
Drugmakers are poised to change their lawsuits and bring new ones against the Biden administration now that the list of the first 10 drugs subject…
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US labor movement celebrates new regulation to counter union-busting
September 5, 2023
America’s resurgent labor movement has won a useful victory with a decision by the National Labor Relations Board that will make unionization easier at firms…
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The Lawfare Podcast: The Coming Wave
September 5, 2023
There is no more consequential technological development in recent years than widely accessible artificial intelligence. And there are few more consequential contemporary figures in the…
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Why Corporate America Needs to Listen to Workers’ Voices
September 5, 2023
Like many frontline workers across the country, Denise Kohr saw her pay at Amazon increase over the past year; as for her say, not so…
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A momentous climate case could force countries to do more
September 5, 2023
An article by Philippe Sands: On September 27, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg will hear an unprecedented climate lawsuit brought by six…
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Overtime pay would cover millions more workers under proposed Biden rule
September 1, 2023
The Biden administration unveiled a new rule Wednesday to extend overtime pay to an additional 3.6 million salaried white-collar workers in the United States. While…
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Harvard Business Professor Analyzes TV and Movie Negotiation Scenes
September 1, 2023
How well do characters in film and TV reflect successful negotiating strategies? Guhan Subramanian, head of Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation, analyzes the tactics…
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New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary is quickly becoming the leading edge for an unproven legal theory that Donald J. Trump is disqualified from appearing on the…
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Biden Appointees Just Made It Easier For Workers To Form Unions
September 1, 2023
Joe Biden likes to think of himself as “the most pro-union president in American history.” Only time will tell if his assessment is correct, but…
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Why are so many flights nearly crashing into each other?
September 1, 2023
An op-ed by Ashley Nunes: “Disturbing.” That’s how one government official described a recent safety faux-pas in the skies above Florida, when an air traffic…
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Redistricting plaintiffs object to Republican attempt to boot Protasiewicz from cases
September 1, 2023
Liberals argued in a legal filing that Republicans were trying to nullify the election of a Democratic-backed Wisconsin Supreme Court justice by asking her to…
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How Two FDA Moves Have Quietly Advanced Reproductive Health Care
August 30, 2023
This summer, the US Food and Drug Administration made two decisions that reflect a demand for more access to reproductive health care. In July, it…
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Jill Lepore has seen the inside of time
August 30, 2023
The concept of a deadline is a complicated one for Jill Lepore. In addition to the obvious meaning — her new book, “The Deadline,” is…
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Why auto workers are on the brink of striking
August 30, 2023
Workers at Detroit’s “Big Three” automakers may soon hit the picket line. The Detroit Free Press reported that the 150,000 members of the United Auto…
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Why Does Starbucks Stall Union Negotiations? Because It Can.
August 29, 2023
In January of 2022, Jacklyn Gabel and her co-workers at the Starbucks Coffee location on Mission Street in Santa Cruz began considering the idea of…
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Another harebrained idea from Kenneth Chesebro
August 29, 2023
Lawyer Kenneth Chesebro apparently thought himself to be very clever. He is said to have helped launched the phony-elector scheme that is now the subject…