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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…
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Does Donald Trump have unlimited authority to impose tariffs?
December 2, 2024
The original intention was for American presidents to be mere legal executors—not emperors able to impose their will unilaterally. Over time, though, Congress has ceded…
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Citizens United isn’t going away any time soon. But we can still make campaign financing less corrupt.
December 2, 2024
An article co-written by Lawrence Lessig: Whatever its failures, Kamala Harris’s campaign had one clear success: Fundraising. Not only did she raise a record amount…
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How Elon Musk And Amazon Could Deal A Blow To Workers’ Rights
December 2, 2024
Last week, attorneys for SpaceX and Amazon began arguing cases in federal appeals court that could upend the U.S. collective bargaining system that’s been in…
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Trump initiatives might be foiled by the right’s defeat of Chevron
November 25, 2024
An op-ed by Cass Sunstein: The incoming Trump administration is about to run into a serious obstacle. Ironically, the obstacle comes not from the left…
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Dr. Oz’s Pharma, Medicare Views to Influence US Drug Price Talks
November 25, 2024
Mehmet Oz, both a big pharma critic and investor, will get to put his mark on the Biden administration’s signature drug price negotiation program if…
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End of Trump Cases Leaves Limits on Presidential Criminality Unclear
November 25, 2024
The end of the two federal criminal cases against President-elect Donald J. Trump on Monday left momentous, unsettled questions about constraints on criminal wrongdoing by…
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Trump has promised to ‘save TikTok’. What happens next is less clear
November 22, 2024
After a tumultuous year filled with anxiety and a legal battle about its future in the U.S., TikTok may have just been thrown a lifeline…
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Police in New Jersey’s Capital Violate Residents’ Rights, U.S. Finds
November 22, 2024
Police officers in Trenton, N.J., systematically violate the constitutional rights of the city’s residents, conduct illegal searches and needlessly escalate peaceful interactions into violence, the…
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Amazon and SpaceX aim to defang the federal labor board. Trump may help.
November 21, 2024
Donald Trump’s presidential administration is poised to oversee major cuts to the powers of the federal agency that protects unions, as corporations including Elon Musk’s…
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Trump’s Recess Appointment Gambit Is Unconstitutional
November 20, 2024
An op-ed by Noah Feldman: Donald Trump has been the president-elect for only two weeks, but he is already pushing to see how much deference…
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What Trump’s Re-election Could Mean for Animals
November 20, 2024
President-elect Donald J. Trump has promised to remake the federal government, an undertaking that could have far-reaching consequences for hundreds of millions of Americans and…
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Democrats Can Become the Party of Insurgency Again
November 20, 2024
There have been repeated clashes between the left and the center of the Democratic Party over the past 50-plus years, especially in the presidential nomination…
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Amazon, SpaceX Take Assaults on Labor Board to Fifth Circuit
November 19, 2024
Amazon.com Inc. and SpaceX will try to convince a federal appeals court that elements of the National Labor Relations Board violate the Constitution, potentially creating…
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How Much Damage Can Lee Zeldin Do at the EPA?
November 18, 2024
Donald Trump has named his pick to run the Environmental Protection Agency: Lee Zeldin, who was the U.S. representative for New York’s 1st congressional district…
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Silent Study-Ins
November 18, 2024
Last December, approximately 100 pro-Palestine students filed into Widener Library’s Loker Reading Room, taped flyers to the back of their laptops, and read for an…
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Laurence Tribe Breaks His Silence
November 18, 2024
In his first extensive interview since the election, Harvard constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe joins Jessica Denson to address the crisis of a second Trump presidency.
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Federal Court takes aim at White House’s environment authority
November 15, 2024
A federal court in D.C. has issued a ruling that curtails the White House’s ability to set government-wide rules pertaining to how environmental reviews can…