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What Statistics Can't Tell Us in the Fight over Affirmative Action at Harvard

A group seeking to ban affirmative action has sued Harvard for discriminating against Asian Americans. The core issues won't be resolved by statistics alone.

Andrew Gelman, Sharad Goel, Daniel E. Ho

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Citizenship v. The Surveillance State

We have surrendered the cherished value of “innocent until proven guilty” for the security logic that we are all “risky until proven safe.”

Matthew Longo

Law & Justice

Resisting the Juristocracy

The cult of the higher judiciary had its limits long before the left failed to block Kavanaugh. Now the only progressive move is to reclaim democracy.

Samuel Moyn

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Managing Innocence

The Innocence Movement faces a perverse rhetorical puzzle: righting the isolated wrongful conviction only reinforces public faith in the system as a whole.

Joseph Margulies

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In the Name of Public Safety

The Mass Bail Out at Rikers Island shows that freedom is a critical part of public safety.

Jocelyn Simonson

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Kavanaugh’s Charity Case

We already know how Brett Kavanaugh responds to human suffering.

Sarah Hill

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Courts to the Rescue?

When it comes to fighting Trump’s regulatory agenda, it is the D.C. Circuit that will matter, not the Supreme Court. 

Charles Cameron

Law & Justice, Race

Hoverboarding While Black

In the era of digital neighborhoods, social networks embolden a new kind of racial surveillance.

Clarence Harlan Orsi

Law & Justice, Politics

The Border President

Trump v. Hawaii is not about religion. It’s about the president’s unlimited power at the border.

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

Law & Justice

Don’t Let Them Eat Cake

The Supreme Court’s Masterpiece Cakeshop ruling continues a terrible trend of valuing businesses more than employees and customers.

Lawrence B. Glickman

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Cambridge Analytica Is Dead, Long Live Our Data

Were data crimes perpetrated against U.S. voters? We are about to know a lot more.

David Carroll

Law & Justice

Building Prisons in Appalachia

Eastern Kentucky will soon get a fourth federal prison but remains as poor as ever. The region deserves better.

Sylvia Ryerson, Judah Schept

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On Taxes

An experiment in a quintessentially American form of protest.

Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey

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