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Autoworkers union pushes for 32 hour workweek
August 28, 2023
United Auto Workers voted on Friday to authorize a strike. The union is negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement with the Big 3 Detroit automakers…
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Elizabeth Schoen’s guide dog, Eva, is trained to help her navigate crowded, chaotic environments such as airports. The black Labrador knows how to find elevators,…
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Jill Lepore Revisits American Myths With an Eye to the Present
August 28, 2023
In 1636, at the height of the Dutch economic hysteria known as Tulipomania, John Harvard helped found the first college of the American colonies. I…
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A growing number of blue-chip US companies are using environmental and social factors to decide bonuses for top executives, but investors are worried the metrics…
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The big diversity problem that no one wants to publicly admit
August 28, 2023
Thanks to a Supreme Court ruling in June, colleges and universities can no longer consider race in admissions. Many academics believe that this same criteria…
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An article by Tascha Shahriari-Parsa (JD ’24): In 1978 the Supreme Court held that the University of California’s race-based admissions quota was unlawful. After that…
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Multi-level marketing companies sometimes face allegations of operating as pyramid schemes, in part because of how they’re structured. In both illegal pyramid schemes and legal…
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Mark Zuckerberg’s new return-to-office mandate is a clear problem, says Harvard expert: It’ll cause a ‘huge amount of distrust’
August 25, 2023
The latest twist in Meta’s return-to-office saga doesn’t reflect well on CEO Mark Zuckerberg, says a Harvard University expert. The tech giant’s new mandate for…
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Wisconsin Republicans ask newly elected liberal justice to not hear redistricting case
August 25, 2023
Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature asked that the newest Democratic-backed justice on the state Supreme Court recuse herself from lawsuits seeking to overturn GOP-drawn…
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Unionization Nears Record Levels as Students, Interns Organize
August 24, 2023
Unionization so far this year has hit near-historic levels, with more than 58,000 workers—driven largely by graduate students and medical interns—voting to organize within the…
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The Constitutional Case for Barring Trump from the Presidency
August 24, 2023
Earlier this month, two conservative law professors announced that they would be publishing an article, which will appear in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review…
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The ‘Problem of Twelve’ — redux
August 24, 2023
Last summer Alphaville wrote a list of the dozen most powerful people of the investment world, inspired by a paper written by Harvard University’s John…
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Parents tagged by DCF policy should be allowed to appeal
August 24, 2023
Sometimes a well-intentioned rule has negative consequences, particularly in the complex policies meant to keep children safe from abuse and neglect. A recent court ruling…
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A recent study by Harvard Law School and New York University highlights the potential threat of future pandemics from animal industries in the United States.
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Will ruling on abortion pill mifepristone access limit FDA’s authority on all drugs?
August 23, 2023
By interfering with the Food and Drug Administration’s authority to regulate an abortion drug, the courts have undermined its authority over all medications, legal and…
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Laura Cascada never thought her first brush with an octopus would be at a glorified petting zoo. But the longtime animal advocate was visiting her…
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Hidden investors took over Corizon Health, a leading prison healthcare company. Then they deployed the Texas Two-Step.
August 22, 2023
Hector Garcia, a father of four, collapsed three days into his six-day sentence at the Doña Ana County Detention Center, in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
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Delegitimize the Supreme Court
August 22, 2023
The Supreme Court’s approval rating is at record lows. A Gallup poll this summer showed that only 40 percent of Americans approve of the job…
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A national health task force’s sterling new endorsement of a long-acting injectable medication for use as HIV prevention will require health insurers to begin covering…
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The New York Knicks on Monday launched what could become a groundbreaking case in the intersection between analytics and trade secrets when they sued Atlantic…
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Alas, Trump Is Still Eligible to Run for Office
August 21, 2023
An op-ed by Noah Feldman: A law review article claiming that Donald Trump is automatically disqualified from holding elected office is getting attention in large…