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Would Twitter get online publisher immunity in fake ‘blue check’ suits?
November 15, 2022
Twitter Inc’s introduction last week of a new subscription system to dole out blue-check verification badges was a flop by any standard. Even Twitter tacitly…
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The Case Against the Twitter Apology
November 14, 2022
An article written by Jill Lepore: Whose P.R.-purposed apology was worse? Al Franken’s or Louis C.K.’s? The Equifax C.E.O.’s (for a cybersecurity breach) or Papa…
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The Biden administration has stopped accepting applications for federal student loan forgiveness after a court struck down its plan on Thursday evening. “Courts have issued…
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The U.N. is mulling another mission to Haiti. Haitians are skeptical.
November 14, 2022
In a country where virtually all the news lately has been bad, Lucmane Tabuto found the announcement that cholera had resurfaced particularly worrisome. The 65-year-old…
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Embattled Crypto Exchange FTX Files for Bankruptcy
November 14, 2022
On Monday, Sam Bankman-Fried, the chief executive of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, took to Twitter to reassure his customers: “FTX is fine,” he wrote. “Assets…
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It is morning in Eastern Housing Court, and Frances Louis is seated on a bench in the gallery of a courtroom, waiting for her case…
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A Constitutional Republic Demands a Constrained Judiciary: Judicial Overreach in “Vacating” Biden’s Loan Forgiveness Program
November 14, 2022
An article written by Laurence Tribe: A federal district judge—Mark Pittman, a Trump appointee to the Northern District of Texas—has dashed the hopes and upended…
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Afederal judge on Thursday granted a nationwide injunction against an industrial cleaning company, ordering the company to end its use of “oppressive child labor” after…
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What will one-party rule mean for Massachusetts?
November 14, 2022
Massachusetts Democrats couldn’t have asked for a better week. The party recaptured the governorship, swept the statewide offices, maintained its dominance of the state Legislature,…
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Elon Musk Has Inherited Twitter’s India Problem
November 14, 2022
One night last February, Indian police showed up at the home address of a Twitter employee in New Delhi. There, the employee was served with…
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Where VA’s efforts to help LGBTQ+ vets and their families fall short
November 10, 2022
An op-ed written by Nathan Lowry [JD ’24] and David Paul [JD ’24]: By the time Rhett Chalk died in 2020 from wounds he sustained…
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Trial by Teenager, Part 2
November 10, 2022
The fact-checking experiment gets scaled up with 40 students in two states. The Super Bowl of fact-checking, a final test of an idea that might…
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The Tree Branch from The Last Archive
November 10, 2022
On this episode of her American history podcast The Last Archive, Noah Feldman’s colleague Jill Lepore offers an alternate history. What would the world might…
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The Last Archive
November 10, 2022
Trial by Teenager, Part 1: What if there were a way to stop politicians from lying on social media? Jill Lepore heads to a local…
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Pioneers and Pathfinders: Dr. Heidi K. Gardner Returns
November 10, 2022
Today we welcome back our premiere guest, Dr. Heidi K. Gardner. An economist by training, she is a distinguished fellow at Harvard Law School’s Center…
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Longest-Ever Serving State Attorney General Defeated in Iowa (2)
November 10, 2022
Iowa Democrat Tom Miller, the longest-ever serving state attorney general who took on everyone from Big Tobacco to Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, was…
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Elon Musk’s Twitter lays off employees across the company
November 9, 2022
Twitter on Friday laid off thousands of employees in departments across the company, in a severe round of cost cutting that could potentially upend how…
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Mr. Attorney General, It’s Too Late to Appoint A Special Counsel
November 9, 2022
An article co-written by Laurence Tribe: The Justice Department has reportedly been considering the appointment of a Special Counsel to complete investigations of former President…
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UN Denied Justice to Lead-Poisoned Kosovo Roma Refugees: Report
November 9, 2022
The United Nations manipulated its own accountability mechanisms to thwart justice for Roma, Ashkali and Balkan Egyptian refugees who were poisoned while living in UN-operated…
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An article co-written by Michael Ashley Stein: The law presumes that individuals are rational. The reasonable individual, a hypothetical figure whose actions judges and juries…
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The Reactionary Court
November 8, 2022
An article written by Charles Fried: To the Editors: Jed S. Rakoff’s fine review of Brad Snyder’s biography of Felix Frankfurter [NYR, November 3] is…