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The Future of Academic Freedom
January 29, 2024
An essay by Jeannie Suk Gersen: On January 2nd, after months of turmoil around Harvard’s response to Hamas’s attack on Israel, and weeks of turmoil…
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Many workers are afraid of artificial intelligence—and for good reason. Some experts say the technology has the power to impact, if not eliminate, workers’ daily…
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The Campus Wars Aren’t About Gender … Are They?
January 29, 2024
In the first weeks of the war between Israel and Hamas, Nancy Andrews read about American college presidents under fire and something nagged at her.
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Clerks for hire: The Supreme Court recruiting race
January 29, 2024
Last spring, as the Supreme Court wrapped up oral arguments for what was shaping up to be a blockbuster term, the law firm Jones Day…
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Browbeating
January 29, 2024
An article written by Randall Kennedy: The forced resignation of Harvard University’s president, Claudine Gay, on 2 January capped a ferocious and extremely effective campaign…
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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…