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The Greater Boston Eviction Crisis Will Hurt You, Too
December 12, 2024
Morning light spilled over Boston as Noreli Vasquez unlocked the black front door of her brick walkup near Maverick Square in East Boston. Tired after…
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Tesla, Intel and the fecklessness of corporate boards
December 12, 2024
Sitting on the board of a large American company is at once the plummest and most thankless work in business. Plum because, when everything is…
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How Trump Will Lawfully Appoint Loyalists Without Senate Consent
December 12, 2024
An article by Jack Goldsmith: President-elect Donald Trump’s Nov. 10 tweet on the possibility of recess appointments for his nominees set off a flurry of…
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US Food Date Labels Are Broken. The Government Is Trying to Fix Them.
December 11, 2024
There’s a good chance that you or someone you know has trashed perfectly good food over confusion about date labels. Now, the US government is…
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Supreme Court showdown over Uinta Basin Railway puts environmental law in the crosshairs
December 10, 2024
A Colorado local government’s challenge to a controversial oil-by-rail project in eastern Utah has teed up the conservative-dominated U.S. Supreme Court to take its biggest…
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Surprise! America is less polarized than it used to be.
December 9, 2024
An op-ed by Nicholas Stephanopoulos: Here’s a shocker: One of the unnoticed themes of the recent election was depolarization. The electoral chasms between groups of…
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Mexico just put animal welfare into its national constitution
December 9, 2024
This week was a big win for animals across Mexico. On December 2, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum signed a set of constitutional reforms that will…
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The Demise and Afterlife of Donald Trump’s Criminal Cases
December 9, 2024
An essay by Jeannie Suk Gersen: A year before Donald Trump became the first former President to be criminally indicted, I expressed my hope, on…
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Why the Naval Academy Gets to Keep Affirmative Action
December 9, 2024
An op-ed by Noah Feldman: In 2023, the US Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in private and public university admissions. Now a federal district…
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Harvard’s Peabody museum returns Native American burial remains
December 6, 2024
Nearly 150 years after a Harvard University scientist removed Native American burial remains from a gravesite in Upstate New York, the ancestors’ remains and other…
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Charges against Shelley Joseph come at crucial time for judiciary
December 6, 2024
The new disciplinary charges against Judge Shelley M. Richmond Joseph, who’s accused of helping an immigrant evade federal agents in her Newton courtroom in 2018,…
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High Court Argument Promotes Targeted Limits on Transgender Care
December 6, 2024
The Biden administration’s concession this week that states can reasonably limit when minors may receive gender-affirming care could provide a stronger legal basis for state…
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PSE&G to pay $6.6M for inaccurately reporting need for local PJM transmission project
December 6, 2024
Public Service Electric and Gas agreed to pay $6.6 million to settle allegations it gave the PJM Interconnection inaccurate information about a $546 million transmission…
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Garland took too long to put wheels of justice in motion vs. Trump
December 6, 2024
A letter by Nancy Gertner: Kimberly Atkins Stohr’s column “Don’t blame Garland and Smith for the failed prosecutions of Trump” misses the mark (Opinion, Nov.
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Democratic states are preparing for Donald Trump’s return
December 6, 2024
On a recent episode of “Politickin’”—Gavin Newsom’s podcast in which he tries to convince listeners that he is their totally normal podcast bro bestie—the Democratic…
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Climate change experts see dark clouds ahead
December 6, 2024
Climate experts expect a second Trump administration to feature multipronged attacks on recent years’ climate change progress, with battles in the courts, in Congress, and…
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An op-ed co-written by Raj Nayak: Too many workers across New Jersey and the nation work in excessive heat, and the problem is getting worse.
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Title IX protections in new US education secretary’s sights
December 6, 2024
Linda McMahon’s nomination as US education secretary is a clear sign that the second Trump administration is serious about dismantling federal laws that prohibit sex-based…
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The Supreme Court Won’t Save Musk’s DOGE Plans
December 3, 2024
An op-ed by Noah Feldman: The plans for the Department of Government Efficiency laid out by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are so riddled with…
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Converting to Judaism in the Wake of October 7th
December 2, 2024
An essay by Jeannie Suk Gersen: The saga of my Jewish conversion began twenty-five years ago, when I got engaged to my first husband. He’d…
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Hunter Biden’s Pardon Is Understandable — But Wrong
December 2, 2024
An op-ed by Noah Feldman: No government action implicates raw emotion more than a president pardoning a family member. Seen from a human perspective, Joe…