Law

Poor Historians

In the state’s twisted logic, being a victim of violence is reason for deportation.

  • Joshua Craze

The Making of the Deportation Machine

The pillars aren’t new. They were built over decades, with bipartisan consensus.

  • Marie Gottschalk

What Are We Living Through?

Three competing narratives of the second Trump administration.

  • Jedediah Britton-Purdy
  • David Pozen

The Moral Stupefaction of the American Public

Trump’s boat strikes will seek cover in the same specious legality debate the Bush administration sowed with the torture memos.

  • Joseph Margulies

Letter to the Massachusetts Special Commission on Combatting Antisemitism

Your approach is toxic and threatens core democratic values. You must change course or cease to exist.

  • Aaron Shakow

The Right to Be Hostile

Crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protest force a reckoning with inflated definitions of harm and harassment.

  • Alex Gourevitch
with responses from
  • Robin Marie Averbeck
  • Nicole Hemmer
  • Diane Klein Kemker
  • David S. Busch
  • Louis P. M. Römer
  • Tabatha Abu El-Haj
  • Chase Madar

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The Dead End of Checks and Balances

Far from the cure to Trumpian authoritarianism, the U.S. constitutional system is driving our democratic decline.

  • Lisa L. Miller
with responses from
  • Eric Blanc
  • Marcus Gadson
  • Gianpaolo Baiocchi
  • Samuel Moyn
  • Aziz Z. Huq
  • Kelly Hayes & Maya Schenwar
  • Lily Geismer

Lawyers Face an Existential Choice

Conciliation only fuels Trump’s momentum and accelerates our constitutional decline.

  • Baher Azmy

The Insidious Doctrine Fueling the Case Against Mahmoud Khalil

How a century of immigration law has evaded constitutional rights.

  • Debbie Nathan

How to Buy an Election

The problem is no longer “money in politics.” It’s just money.

  • Mark Schmitt

Resisting Trump’s Immigration Machine

It faces serious obstacles, but the uncertainty and terror it has already unleashed is real—indeed, part of the point.

  • Lauren Carasik

To Whom Does the World Belong?

The battle over copyright in the age of ChatGPT.

  • Alexander Hartley

Abortion’s Future

Activists, not elites, are leading the way forward in a world without Roe.

  • Judith Levine

Prison Reform’s Shell Game

Hard-won legislation meant to limit or end solitary confinement has run up against the power of correctional systems to neutralize change.

  • Bonnie Tenneriello

Inside Project 2025

Backed by the Heritage Foundation, the initiative seeks to undermine longstanding safeguards against abuses of executive power.

  • James Goodwin

The Judicial War on Government

The Supreme Court’s latest bid to control agencies like the EPA—and Congress itself.

  • Lisa Heinzerling

Inside the Legal Fight for Trans Rights

Two prominent litigators discuss decades of progress, the backlash today, and the road ahead.

  • Jennifer L. Levi
  • Shannon Price Minter
  • Paisley Currah

The Future of Speech on Campus

Private universities should respond to the charge of hypocrisy with a maximalist approach to free speech.

  • Ethan Bueno de Mesquita

Instruments of Dehuman­ization

How U.S. laws—branding Palestinians as “terrorists” and redefining anti-Semitism—serve Israel’s interests.

  • Maryam Jamshidi

More than Genocide

The law occludes the abhorrent violence routinely perpetrated by states in the name of self-defense.

  • A. Dirk Moses

A Jewish Plea: Stand Up to Israel’s Act of Genocide

“Never again” means standing up for Palestinian people. “Never again” means this very moment.

  • Stefanie Fox

“The Crimes Are Plenty”

A conversation with Palestinian human rights attorney Noura Erakat on the need for a political solution.

  • Noura Erakat
  • Deborah Chasman

How Not to Do Industrial Policy

Instead of pouring public funds into private industry—as the U.S. did with COVID-19 vaccines—we must build public capacity and prioritize public objectives.

  • Amy Kapczynski
  • Christopher Morten
  • Reshma Ramachandran

Cop Cities in a Militarized World

The United States has long supported the repression of Latin American land defenders. The tactics it exported are coming to the Atlanta forest.

  • Azadeh Shahshahani
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