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How the Start-Up Nation Could Fail
March 16, 2023
An article co-written by Lucian Bebchuk: Israel’s ruling coalition is now pushing through its parliament an array of major legal changes that would greatly curtail…
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Red State Copycats Follow Florida’s Lead On Voter Suppression And Create More Election Police
March 16, 2023
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin, a Republican, announced this week that he was launching an Election Integrity Unit to investigate nonexistent widespread voter fraud in…
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A Texas lawsuit attempting to ban pills used in medical abortions could have an impact on how the FDA approves medicines as a whole. “To…
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Federal Reserve and Lawmakers Eye Bank Rules After Collapse
March 16, 2023
The Federal Reserve is facing criticism over Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse, with lawmakers and financial regulation experts asking why the regulator failed to catch and…
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On Monday a transgender woman from Saudi Arabia published a suicide note that incriminates her parents with forcing her to detransition. Eden Knight lived in…
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An op-ed by Daniel Tarullo: The repercussions of the Silicon Valley Bank failure are still rippling through the financial system. While much remains to be…
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Harvard career expert: The No. 1 ‘desirable skill’ that very few people have—especially men
March 15, 2023
An article by Heidi Gardner: When young people ask me for career advice, I always tell them: “Don’t just focus on your own accomplishments. Be…
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Nowadays, Daniel Tarullo teaches at Harvard Law School. But not too long ago, he was leading the charge on bank regulation. Between 2009 and 2017,…
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For the first time, researchers have created mice with two biologically male parents by manipulating the chromosomes inside a stem cell. Katsuhiko Hayashi, a stem…
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Powell’s Legacy Risks Being Tarnished More by SVB Collapse
March 15, 2023
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank threatens to further besmirch the reputation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, on top of the blemish he’s suffered…
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Ukraine war crimes cases to open as International Criminal Court seeks 1st arrest warrants since Russia’s invasion
March 15, 2023
On March 2, 2022, just one week into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine, International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Kahn opened…
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An op-ed co-written by Laurence Tribe: On Friday, District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, who is among the most reactionary of former President Donald Trump’s appointees, signaled…
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Is the American Catholic Church Fueling the Far Right?
March 14, 2023
A book review by Noah Feldman: Just how conservative is the Catholic Church? So conservative that, when Pope Francis recently said that homosexuality is a…
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On Monday, a day after federal regulators stepped in to stem a potential crisis triggered by two sudden bank failures, Senator Elizabeth Warren was seething.
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A rash of proposed Florida laws use ‘genocidal rhetoric’ to attack trans people, legal experts say
March 14, 2023
A series of new bills in Florida taking aim at health care providers offering gender-affirming care and parents who support their trans kids are part…
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What Conversation Can Do for Us
March 14, 2023
There was once a time when strangers talked to one another, sometimes eagerly. “In past eras, daily life made it necessary for individuals to engage…
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The Expanding Battle Over the Abortion Pill
March 13, 2023
An essay by Jeannie Suk Gersen: More than half of abortions in the United States are accomplished with pills, rather than with surgeries. So, when…
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Biden Promised to Revisit Presidential Immunity. He Hasn’t.
March 13, 2023
When Joseph R. Biden Jr. was running for the White House in 2019, he sharply criticized the Justice Department’s longstanding view that presidents who commit…
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Mayors get personal over coffee and eggs
March 13, 2023
For Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, the galvanizing event was a family health emergency. For Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui, it was picking up from failure and…
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JPMorgan Chase is attempting to engineer what could be the biggest clawback of pay in Wall Street history by demanding that Jes Staley return more…
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Where Were the Regulators as SVB Crashed?
March 13, 2023
Silicon Valley Bank’s failure boils down to a simple misstep: It grew too fast using borrowed short-term money from depositors who could ask to be…