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Will Holub-Moorman

Family policing is deeply unjust. The nuclear family is too.

Brishen Rogers

Workers will benefit from technology when they control how it’s used.

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Twenty years later, the U.S.-led invasion continues to shape geopolitics for the worse.
Alex Raskolnikov

For years the left has rallied around taxing the 1 percent, but this group is too narrow.

James Chappel

The tone of exhausted pragmatism—even among friends of the program—is counterproductive. It is beyond time to fight fire with fire.

Ira Katznelson

Revisiting When Affirmative Action Was White, nearly two decades on.

Emily Berman

Yawning gaps in the law empower police to collect and store massive amounts of data, all on the grounds that it might one day turn out useful.

Christopher Newfield

Institutional reform is no match for pervasive structural inequality.

Louise Melling

A sharp uptick in challenges to U.S. antidiscrimination laws threatens decades of progress in extending civil rights to all.

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The crypto exchange’s spectacular failure is the product of a bankrupt corporate culture.

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Professor of Law and Government at Cornell University. Margulies was Counsel of Record in Rasul v. Bush (2004), involving detentions at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Station.

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