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Stuck With Biden, I’m Still a Never Trumper
January 29, 2024
A letter by Alan Charles Raul: As a fellow traveler of J.W. Verret during his conviction-based stint as a Never Trumper, I am sorry to…
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For decades, the Copyright Office has been a small and sleepy office within the Library of Congress. Each year, the agency’s 450 employees register roughly…
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1/23/24 RT Panel
January 26, 2024
The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today’s panelists are research professor and Stuart Rice Honorary Chair at…
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Charles Fried, a former U.S. solicitor general and conservative legal scholar who taught at Harvard Law School for decades, has died, the university said. He…
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AI Needs So Much Power That Old Coal Plants Are Sticking Around
January 25, 2024
In a 30-square-mile patch of northern Virginia that’s been dubbed “data center alley,” the boom in artificial intelligence is turbocharging electricity use. Struggling to keep…
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Forum highlights Kentucky’s educational standards
January 25, 2024
The Kentucky Supreme Court’s decision in the Rose v. Council for Better Education has guided education policy for decades – but has it been successful?…
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The high court has agreed to hear a case involving Starbucks workers who were fired — and then reinstated. Labor advocates worry that a ruling…
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An op-ed co-written by Laurence Tribe: With Donald Trump’s defeat of Nikki Haley in New Hampshire, there’s no need to waste any more time wishing…
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Wellness Wednesday: Red Cross lifts restrictions on blood donations for members of the LGBTQ+ community
January 24, 2024
The Red Cross is in desperate need of blood donations. Last year, the Food and Drug Administration ended blood donor restrictions for gay and bisexual…
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The Architect of Our Divided Supreme Court
January 23, 2024
An article by Jill Lepore: “Mrs. Justice Holmes died on Tuesday night,” the Supreme Court’s Chief Justice, William Howard Taft, reported on May 5, 1929.
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Opening conversation on more, better discourse
January 23, 2024
The growing need for more and better discourse on difficult topics at Harvard as well as at college campuses across the nation prompted a two-day…
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Here Is One Way to Steal the Presidential Election
January 22, 2024
An op-ed co-written by Lawrence Lessig: What happens when you stress-test America’s system for electing a president? How well does it hold up? After the…
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On Thursday morning, in a courtroom on the fifth floor of the Edward W. Brooke Courthouse, the benches were stacked with tenants trying to hold…
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Should You Use ChatGPT for Medical Advice?
January 22, 2024
If you have chest pain, should you ask a chatbot, like ChatGPT, for medical advice? Should your doctor turn to AI for help with a…
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The Legal Question at the Center of the Alec Baldwin Criminal Case
January 22, 2024
Now that a grand jury has indicted Alec Baldwin on a charge of involuntary manslaughter for the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set…
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Why FEMA is changing rules for disaster aid
January 22, 2024
Two numbers help explain the Biden administration’s latest overhaul of federal disaster aid for individuals. One: The aid program has rejected 46 percent of the…
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Rising malpractice premiums push small clinics away from gender-affirming care for minors
January 22, 2024
After Iowa lawmakers passed a ban on gender-affirming care for minors in March, managers of an LGBTQ+ health clinic located just across the state line…
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Whichever genius in the congressional Republican caucus decided to condition aid to Ukraine on the passage of a comprehensive immigration overhaul deserves a medal ……
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Supreme Court herring fishermen case ‘about power’: Law professor
January 22, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case that could eliminate a fee requirement for commercial fishermen, an important case that could limit a wide…
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How a legal loophole allows anti-abortion prosecutors to obtain women’s secret health data
January 22, 2024
The American legal system has a message for women concerned about their abortion rights: Don’t make the mistake of thinking that your pharmacist is your…
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AI is destabilizing ‘the concept of truth itself’ in 2024 election
January 22, 2024
Experts in artificial intelligence have long warned that AI-generated content could muddy the waters of perceived reality. Weeks into a pivotal election year, AI confusion…