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Your Questions Answered: Trump vs. the Rule of Law
August 14, 2025
From the attempt to end birthright citizenship to the gutting of congressionally authorized agencies, the Trump Administration has created an enormous number of legal controversies.
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In Election Cases, Supreme Court Keeps Removing Guardrails
August 14, 2025
If Republicans succeed in pulling off an aggressively partisan gerrymander of congressional districts in Texas, they will owe the Supreme Court a debt of gratitude.
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We work at Harvard, and we will not cave to Trump’s demands
August 14, 2025
An op-ed co-written by Andrew Crespo: The Ivy League presents itself as an embodiment of academic freedom and intellectual rigor, but these days its universities…
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Boston Public Library, one of the oldest and largest public library systems in the country, is launching a project this summer with OpenAI and Harvard…
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When the U.S. Congress voted this summer to rescind $1.1 billion previously allocated for public broadcasting, it was the largest victory yet in the nearly…
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The impact of data centers on rising electricity costs
August 14, 2025
As the number of energy-intensive data centers needed to power Big Tech rises in the U.S., so are Americans’ electricity bills. Ari Peskoe, director of…
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Last summer, my wife and I beat the odds of middle age and gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. Thousands of people who follow…
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The national battle over redistricting fueled by Texas Republicans’ effort to draw new congressional maps has created an odd dynamic for California Republicans. They are…
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When Is It Genocide?
August 14, 2025
In the days after Oct. 7, President Joe Biden tried to help Americans touch the size of Israel’s horror and grief by translating it into…
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To Make Democracy Work, Give More of It to Workers
August 14, 2025
The 2024 election was a referendum on democracy—one that democracy lost fair and square. As loudly and as forcefully as Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and…
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We the People: Cruel and Unusual Punishment
August 8, 2025
The Eighth Amendment. What is cruel and unusual punishment? Who gets to define and decide its boundaries? And how did the Constitution’s authors imagine it…
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Civil Cases Against Major Polluters Plummet Under Trump
August 8, 2025
The Trump administration has filed far fewer civil cases accusing companies of violating environmental rules than its predecessors, an analysis of federal data shows. In…
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To hear Jamie Dimon tell it, which he does quite often, US financial regulations are out of control. “It has been taken to a whole…
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Zeldin slams ‘overreach’ for halting Constitution pipeline
August 8, 2025
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin bashed “overreach” and “climate zealots” for blocking a pipeline in New York and called for its construction to begin in order…
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Post-Dobbs abortions rise in Texas
August 8, 2025
Texas has seen the country’s highest number of medication abortions via telehealth under shield law protections, per a recent national report. The big picture: The…
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As artificial intelligence accelerates the demand for power in the U.S., data centers are expanding to help meet the growing need, but AARP advocates are…
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The quest to create gene-edited babies gets a reboot
August 6, 2025
A Chinese scientist horrified the world in 2018 when he revealed he had secretly engineered the birth of the world’s first gene-edited babies. His work…
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Trump Amps Up an Obama Strategy to Crack Down on Colleges
August 6, 2025
To show they are serious about stamping out campus antisemitism, some of the nation’s top universities are adding a powerful position to their administrative ranks.
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GHG Regs Rollback Would Test Clean Air Act Interpretation
August 6, 2025
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal to eliminate a pillar of climate change regulation could test the agency’s — and courts’ — interpretations of Clean…
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Here’s how we all ended up paying Big Tech’s power bill
August 6, 2025
In several states, public utilities are asking power-hungry data centers to cover more of their mounting electricity costs. Utilities have long enforced special terms and…
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The Trump administration has formally declared that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are not dangerous pollutants. If the president gets his way, then the…